What can a Christian say? Background I have a certain admiration for people who can talk to a crowd and win them over with the power and poetry of their words. In earlier times, I often referred to President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address (20 Jan 1961), as a great example of a short, concise speech [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Shayne
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Psalm 4. written by David. [In general, I've used the New King James Version - for discussion purposes, I've inserted other translations, especially in regard to verse (4); because, some versions present a slightly different emphasis - and it's worth noting these variations.] 1. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved me [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Shayne
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An article in ‘The Weekend Australian – Magazine’ Feb 21-22, 2009, (written by Andrew Fraser) with the title ‘What Would Jesus Do?’, covers the ‘explusion’ of Father Peter Kennedy from St Mary’s Catholic Church in South Brisbane. If I accept that the article presents a reasonable account of what has happened in this catholic parish, then [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Shayne
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I’m currently looking at Proverbs, which is the focus of the current issue of Every Day with Jesus, see my other blog. At the same time I’ve been looking at the Psalms – for me, an inspiring collection of writings. A lot of my source material, has as its genesis, the books by Charles H. [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Shayne
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Last Saturday night, Richard Wright delivered an excellent sermon on the first sixteen verses of Chapter 2, Paul’s letter to the Romans. These are the verse (NIV): “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Shayne
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I’ve just read an interesting article about Christianity in USA – “According to the study, 78.4% of Americans are Christians, about 5% belong to other faith traditions and 16.1% are unaffiliated with any religion.” If 78% of Americans are Christians; how do you explain the lack of political honesty, health provision, homelessness, violence and ‘reckless’ [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Shayne
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I don’t mind what sort of comments people send – as long as it’s not spam. A suggestion some may like to consider. Please save your time and don’t send anti-Christian material – I’ll just delete it Before my conversion I looked at most other frameworks of structured human thought/philosophy (inc. zen & humanism). At [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Shayne
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In thinking about some of the popular, liberal views about Christian beliefs (triggered by the John Spong post, below), I posed myself the question: ‘How should you relate to people who call themselves Christians yet don’t believe what Jesus taught?’ Here’s some of what Paul has to say about the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:12-20 NIV): [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Shayne
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Hi I’ve changed this site (all the work was actually done by Richard Wright of Midnight Software Solutions) from one based on a Content Management System to a normal WordPress blog style. The sad part of the change is that those who had links to the old site will find that they now don’t work. [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Shayne
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