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Sport: A fitting farewell
There was much heartbreak for Irish fans as the All Blacks snuck home at the death to remain unbeaten by the Irish, the only rugby team in the world to hold that record against Ireland.
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John Piper's five points to pastors following Yongghi Cho church embezzlement scandal
In South Korea, 78 year old David Yongghi Cho, Pastor of the world\'s largest Pentecostal Church, the Yoido Gospel Church, has recently been charged with embezzling $12million in church funds. His son Cho Hee-Jun, 49, has been imprisoned for 3 years indicted on the same charges.
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Embrace grace
People are so disappointing! We seem to ruin everything. Take the Garden of Eden for example…yep people weren't satisfied with Paradise! Can you believe it! So what did they do….they jeopardised peace and delight and utter perfection for a "desire to gain wisdom and be like God"!
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Theoretical lives
Who are you? If you took a few minutes to formulate a serious answer to that question what would you say? How do you summarise a human? Are you a collection of specific details? If so, what categories would you choose to define yourself? Age, height, job, relationship status, area you grew up in, area you now live in, interests, hobbies, talents? Perhaps what books you've read, movies you've seen, places you've travelled, company you keep.
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Stolen wallet a chance at evangelism?
A couple of weeks into the working year I had the unfortunate experience of having my wallet stolen at work from my backpack. It was a difficult and irritating situation to be suddenly put in but I remained calm and didn't get angry.
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Hope – The golden thread of life
Hope. It is simply one of the most amazing words there is. It flies into the capricious face of loss, pain and tragedy and says, "This is not the end."
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Planes and personnel: RAAF's 100 years celebration & airshow
The Centenary of Military Aviation Air Show< was held at RAAF Williams - Point Cook March 1-2. It was 100 years ago that the RAAF flew its first flight from this base. It was fitting that the first flyover of the Airshow was the RAAF's first plane, the Pup, followed by their newest, the F/A-18F Super Hornet.
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Talent in a 'sex sells' industry
The Kiwi songwriter Lorde was recently awarded two Grammys for her work performing and writing the hit song Royals. At just seventeen Lorde (real name Ella Yelich O'Connor) performed to a room full of pop stars and music legends. Royals delivers a sharp jab at the ridiculous opulence of pop culture and its irrelevance to the everyman – or everywoman in this particular case!
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End User Documentation
I was going to write something on projection, projector cages and CAT extenders but my local Sony Centre cancelled the order my church had for a new projector; when the new manager of the Sony Centre took over the store last month and forgot to inform us. So instead we are going to have a look into live events documentation and the use in church and church related events.
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Think of something nice to say
\'If you can\'t say something nice, don\'t say nothing at all.\'
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If God is my healer, why am I still sick?
Disclaimer: I'm not going to answer the question above, primarily because no one can. And secondarily, in trying to, I may actually harm you more than my attempt at an explanation would help you. So I'm not even going to try.
