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Revelation or Relevance

Revelation or Relevance

The church I am involved in is currently reading the Chronological Bible in a year together. With the majority of the church family involved in reading through this Bible, to me it\'s a very exciting time. .

  • Valentine, where legend meets faith

    Valentine's Day is today symbolised by roses and chocolates, hearts and romance. For florists and chocolate shops, it's the high point of the retail year. For lovers, it is the day to express their love in a special (and often public) way. It's hard to imagine that it all began when a Roman emperor decided to prohibit marriage.

  • The relentless pursuit of healing

    The scene is set, a paralysed man lays motionless on his mat. His friends lament over his broken body, longing for him to return to his normal self. Time stands still as they begin to consider and understand that this man, their friend, will never walk again. What can they do to change this situation? What counsel can they give to help remove the devastating blow that has been dealt to their friend? They know that there is nothing that can change this situation.

  • Communicating in Cross Cultural Marriage

    A little over a year ago I married a working class Zambian national, in a small country town on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. For me it was a time of amazing blessing and adventure as the two of us spoke our vows before 300 friends and family and stepped out as one, full of promise to face the challenges of life together.

  • Is technology making us lonely?

    Recent advances in technology astound me. Current mobile phone technology allows you to upload photos to your Facebook page, browse the internet, and store and play your favourite music anywhere. The downloadable phone applications that are available are endless and they enable you to do anything from determine the location of the nearest Police breath-test, to track vital baby information (such as when their next breastfeed is due and from what breast!).

  • Complementary roles of emotion and rationality

    As a trained engineer, I have started to find it rather interesting the way people around me process, store, recall, and present 'information'. As I have gained more experience outside my University studies, I realise that there are two broad aspects to what people regard as 'knowledge'.

  • Presbyterian Sunday School issues of 1939

    My late mother kept many newspaper articles from the second half of the 1930s when she lived in Sydney and was an active Christian young person. I have recently been cataloguing them and musing on why they might have interested her.

  • The King asleep in the Canadian Royal Carriage 1939

    My late mother was an avid and passionate Royal watcher, as were many Australians on that era. Many of the newspaper clipping in the family archive and colour magazines featured the Royal family. I recently found one such article from the Sydney Morning Herald, dated June 16th, with the headline "Last Day of Tour – King to spend it in Halifax – Great crowds gathered."

  • The post war glossy colour magazine

    The Illustrated London News was a very popular glossy colour magazine, and my late mother (1920-1995) was a regular reader. I recently found and a number of them that she had kept dating from 1959 through to 1969.

  • In 1939 Russia's politics with Europe was raised

    My late mother who died in 1995 aged 75 was someone who kept cuttings and now, 71 years later, going through all these newspapers selections, I am sometimes a little mystified as to why a particular article was selected for safe keeping.

  • God tells us to pick up rubbish

    Recently I was walking down the street by myself when I spotted a container lying deserted in the grass. My mind began the two way battle between deciding whether to picking this piece of plastic up or simply ignore it because it wasn't mine in the first place.

  • Sir Nevile Henderson's photo is a shiver of history

    Another article from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) that I recently found when I was sorting the cuttings my mother had kept in the run-up to World War II was dated 30th August 1939, and was a photograph of Sir Nevile Henderson entitled: "Will fly to Hitler".