October 2003

People often ask me what kind of church I go to. I found a great quote on the Sovreign grace website describing their Mission and Motive which could equally well be said of the church family I love to be a part of which like the group previously known as PDI is growing in many [...]

Shattered Dreams: “I’d try treating them the way they treat me, but we all know how well that works”

Male contraceptive “100%” safe and effective: “The trial used the progestin, DMPA, and testosterone to flick a reversible ‘switch’ in the brain that initiates puberty, causing the body to stop sperm production. The testosterone also ensured male health and libido, countering the progestin, which causes natural levels of the male hormone to fall. Some participants [...]

An independent interview states: “Clearly, Robinson can run rings round me theologically as effortlessly as he could with a rugby ball tucked under his arm. Interestingly, like other born-again Christians I have met, his usual level of eloquence, which on a scale of one to 10 is about five, increases to eight or nine when [...]

Argument: “A Talmudic rabbi asked, ‘Who is truly penitent?’ and answered, ‘One who, when the same opportunity for sin presents itself, refrains from sinning’ – adding succinctly, ‘The same woman, the same season, the same place.’”

From The Obvious?: “The soul of culture is conversation. This can be extended possibly to: the quality of our culture is shaped by the quality of our conversations, as in, at the heart of superficial cultures are superficial conversations … at the heart of creative cultures are creative conversations.”

The Obvious?: Fascinating: “Just last night I was thinking how the world mostly divides into half full and half empty people. The former tend to see opportunity in things while the latter tend to see scarcity and hold onto what they have got. One represents growth and change, the other stagnation and eventually death.”

Its quotes like this that make me love the Real Live Preacher “I don’t know what goes on, really. The world is such a big place and we are such small people. Who knows how everything fits together? I want to say that this is how The Creator works in our lives. With small moves [...]