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We live in a beautiful world

We live in a beautiful world

Don\'t laugh now, but the thought of snorkelling has always made me a little nervous. Breathing through a pipe while having your nose blocked made the word \'claustrophobic\' come to mind, so I never felt the need to go out of my way to try it. That was, of course, until we recently visited the Great Barrier Reef..

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

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

  • The Days of Noah or The Days of Elijah?

    \"Much of the church has acted, and still acts, as though it has been grafted into a Christmas Tree – flashing its attractive lights and decorations, but unconcerned about its loss of roots and wondering why it is spiritually drying up and dying.\"

  • Communicating Science and…

    Science is wonderful and exciting! So why does it have such a bad rep? It\'s too hard, you can\'t understand it, only people in white coats do it.

  • Baptism is not such an out-dated ritual

    Modern western society seems to have lost the art of ritual and to a certain extent, rites of passage, particularly for our young people.

  • Gospel Light

    Yesterday I was in an informal meeting of Evangelical Anglican clergy in Perth, listening to a presentation by Nick Goiran, a well known state Christian MP, on the political and legal implications of same-sex marriage (SSM).

  • Dangers on the Web

    The invitations are alluring, complimentary and full of promise. A website says, \"Geeks were once ridiculed and reviled\" but then \"geeks became the people to know. In fact, they started being considered cool.\" For many teens today \'cool\' is a craving.

  • Train Brakes

    A kid from the wool country could always get a job in a shearing shed and it\'s where I started earning a pay packet but the work was intermittent, the cook was slobbery and the food was definitely not mum\'s home cooking.

  • Revolution: Jesus loves every jihadist

    Love your enemies! Has there ever been a more difficult edict? Every day we are confronted by bloodshed and violence inflicted by very unloving types.

  • Happy Holidays?

    I don\'t need a calendar to know when we are getting close to holidays, such as Easter, or Christmas.

  • To suicide or …. not to suicide: That is the soul issue

    As we bumped and rattled over the rough farm road past the memorial boulder and plaque, with eyes watering and voice faltering the dignified old farmer said of his son: \'He gave it back\'.

  • The Rise & Fall of Christendom (part 2)

    In the last article, we considered the demise of Christendom. I attempted to show that momentum has been building to remove, piece by piece, our Christian heritage from our institutions, laws and mores.