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Radioactive spiders

Radioactive spiders

If you ever get bitten by a radioactive spider, as happened to Peter Parker who became Spiderman, then you will need to take the advice Peter’s Uncle Ben gave him. (Yes, I know it’s a comic strip but the value of the advice is very real)..

  • Jesting Pilate

    What is truth? Does it matter? After the death of Sir Owen Dixon, then Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, he was described in the Sydney press as an “intellectual colossus”.

  • The dirty E word!

    It’s not Email, it’s not eBay. It is Evangelism. When this word is uttered – amongst people of no faith and even some believers – there is an almost visible reaction against it, as if it had some horrible or unacceptable connotation.

  • The nature of consciousness

    For many years I have enjoyed a special interest in those things that surround the spiritual experience invluding near death experiences. I recommend this video

  • Parents don’t let your child go to Schoolies

    As a new school year has begun, a new group of young people are entering their final year of school. Finally, the year they have been dreaming of is upon them.   They begin to set themselves up for what is next and more importantly what they are going to do the week after they finish school, better known as Schoolies.

  • The Days of Noah or the Days of Elijah - Part 3

    The Jewish wise man Maimonides said, "Each and every Jew should strive to become as great as Moses."– (Maimonides, Laws of Teshuva 5:2). Christians are instructed to grow each day to be more like Jesus! (Ephesians chapter 4, verse 15)

  • There’s probably no God! Now stop worrying and enjoy your life

    Co-sponsored by the eminent Professor Richard Dawkins (author of the God Delusion), this headline was audaciously splashed across the sides of around 800 London buses, back in 2009.

  • Should I give up sarcasm for Lent?

    The fish is perfect, so the ad says, for Lent. Maybe not as perfect as a sinless Savior dying in our place to restore us to God, but they say it is perfect for something. So what is Lent and why am I being sold stuff for it? 

  • Confessions of a Pastor

    It’s a funny old life being a pastor in my context. I’m in a denomination that has a historical strength about the value of congregational governance, and yet in today’s world people are saying we need leadership, someone who will come in and cast a powerful vision that will grow the church, as long as the congregation can control the pastor.

  • Do what you do well

    One morning in India a word came into my head. Because the word was so perfectly formed and profound I presumed it was from the Lord. I could not have thought of this.

  • Days of Noah or the Days of Elijah? (part 2)

    Are we seeing the biblical signs, described by Jesus' disciple Matthew?

  • Count me in

    No one likes to be left out – unless they choose to opt out of something themselves. And some people have been doing that in NZ as we have just had our five year census, when everyone in the country is required to complete an individual form (or have someone do it for them).