I received an email from the organisation ‘Get-up’ today. Apparently Greens MP Adam Bandt will introduce a motion in Parliament for marriage equality. The appeal is story driven, and here is an except: It’s funny – I guess most relationships aren’t that different. We’ve all felt those butterflies when first meeting, sometimes had our hearts broken along [...]
I want to share with you this enlightened quote by Spurgeon – from the blog The Sacred Sandwich: God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system [...]
A word from a friend I had to share: Just read this wonderfully encouraging quote to young mothers and wives from Martin Luther, here ’tis – “Our natural reason looks at marriage and turns up its nose and says, ‘Alas! Must I rock the baby? wash its diapers? make its bed? smell its stench? stay [...]
Well this is wierd. First blog-on-the-go, thanks to a mobile phone application that will sync when I hit ‘done’. I am not too sure this is good thing. I suppose I can blog more often, but As anyone who has used social media will know, frequency is a poor substitute for quality. What I am [...]
After her parents died, Florence Young (1856-1940) moved to her brother’s sugar plantation near Bundaberg. She held prayer meetings for the South Sea Islander sugar planters whom she taught in pidgin English. In 1886, she founded the evangelical, non-denominational Queensland Kanaka Mission (QKM). She stressed ‘salvation before education or civilisation’. A government inspector noted the [...]
Wife of the Bishop of Sydney, Jane Barker (1807-1876) travelled around rural NSW and noticed the lack of education for clergymen’s daughters. In five months, she raised £250 and found a plot of land to start a school she wanted to call St Catherine’s. Opened in 1856, St Catherine’s School is now the oldest Anglican [...]
Someone has brought up again the idea that Jesus didn’t know he was the Son of God until late on in his ministry. I have always been of the opinion that he always knew, perhaps not in full but as he was brought up in the Jewish faith, he certainly had an inkling. When he [...]
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