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A father's vengeance

A father's vengeance

Gladiator, The Punisher, Taken, The Patriot, Collateral Damage and Max Payne are all films about a father\'s revenge. There is something powerful about a revenge story..

  • "Give us this day our daily bread"

    After a winter surf my entire mind is consumed with a visit to the local bakery to get some fresh baked goods. As I walk into the bakery I become swept up by the aroma.

  • Your dream sounds silly

    A friend of mine has just started a new business making custom jewellery. The other night she told me about the struggle to sell her product—quite a normal problem for a new business to have.

  • Gunners Thrash Villa for Cup Glory!!!

    Arsenal has completed a successful 2014/15 season with a famous piece of silverware after destroying Aston Villa to win the FA Cup at Wembley.

  • Eating from the Tree of Good Judgment

    Perspective is a matter of faith—what we believe shapes the way we see the world, ourselves and each other. Do we see hope, life and glory or do we see despair, debauchery and destruction?

  • Talent: use it or lose it

    I ignored the email inviting me to be part of the young writers\' group. I had a list of excuses on the ready to rid myself of any future writing obligations.

  • This is my secret place

    I see His justice and I say to myself, \'Ah yes, He is just. I know my God\'. In an attempt to be like Him I look at life and I start to find ways to incorporate justice into my dealings with other people. It doesn\'t take long before I am reminded of His mercy, and His grace.

  • Beautiful Passivity

    There is something amazing about being a child. They don\'t have any of the worries that we acquire as we grow up. Their minds are not consumed with finances or schedules necessarily. They take in life day by day.

  • A lesson from the cowboys on religious education

    Recently I had the great pleasure of flying to the United States of America. Although this is not my first adventure in the USA, the contrast to Australian culture was more striking than I remember—perhaps I\'m becoming older and stuck in my ways already!

  • My teacher, the lab rat

    Have you ever overheard or been a part of school drop off and pick up conversations, particularly in the earlier years of schooling? Those in-depth philosophical, world-changing discussions about what that teacher taught, what this teacher said, what that teacher didn\'t do or what this teacher was thinking of doing.

  • Marriage should change us for the better

    \"And we, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord\'s glory, are being transformed into His image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit\"

  • Holy Spirit freedom and new ways of doing church

    I grew up in a church which taught me a lot about Jesus and Father God but not so much about the Holy Spirit. It is so important to give new believers the whole picture of who God is so they can experience the fullness of God.