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28/07/2007 Portmanteau of the DaySydnevangelical n.
In other news...Today is a good day.
[Details Withheld] 27/05/2006 ...and now for something completely differentComment to this post, and:
1. I'll respond with something random about you 2. I'll challenge you to try something 3. I'll pick a colour that I associate with you 4. I'll tell you something I like about you 5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you 6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of 7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you 8. If I do this for you, you must post these questions on your blog. 19/04/2006 Oxford Franktionary 2Msnunderstanding n. (M-S-N-under-stand-ing)
15/02/2006 Oxford FranktionaryTourisdorky n. (Too-ris-door-key)
30/01/2006 Jorb?God has blessed me with a jorb and it came at a time when I could really appreciate it. I charge you all to keep me accountable for my monetary usage, particularly to be generous with what the Lord has given me. This is perhaps among the greatest challenges for any worker because it'll be so easy to be selfish with earnings and forget about God who provided the money in the first place.
I start at 9am on Tuesday 31st January, it'll be my first day of honest work in my life and I'm both terrified and excited, or maybe I'm just looking forward to it with great anxiety?? Please pray for me to be dedicated and hard-working, to be a Christian influence and witness to my peers and customers, and to bring many into the Kingdom of God through my ministry there.
It may sound like a lofty mission statement but I'm going to aim for a HD rather than a Pass. 14/12/2005 Mission AccomplishedNational Training Event (NTE) and mission was fantastic, and it was also tiring. The last two weeks have flown by at such a velocity that its is a blur in my mind. In a nutshell, NTE was like downloading the Internet onto a floppy disk and mission afterwards was like the state of the bag I overpacked for it.
At NTE the speakers were faithful to the Bible, clear and challenging. If I could summarise my information download from NTE in one sentence it would be that 'I am serving a God that loves me dearly'. When I realised this at one of the talks I got a little teary, I hope this realisation affects the way I serve Him in the long run.
Mission was a very busy time, in 3 days I was involved in a school scripture drama, youth group co-leading, kid's club assisting, Sunday school prepping and teaching, carols night guitar playing, and odd jobs here and there; and that wasn't our full program either. But it was so encouraging working with so many dedicated Christians who just got on with it without complaint.
Now at the end of it all, after some time to reflect on the last two weeks, a touch of sadness has crept into my thoughts. I miss my host family up in Port Macquarie, they were so loving and welcoming to Jesse and I, opening up their house and treating us like family from the get go. I hope that we were half as encouraged by us as we were by them. I dearly enjoyed getting to know Jesse - the best way to describe him is that he's a heart with legs. I also miss my friends on the mission team. I realised that I won't get the chance to see them much next year as I'll be at a different campus to them, and some are graduating as well. Perhaps mission was like a goodbye hug that I didn't want to let go of...
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16/11/2005 What a game!As Aloisi slotted in the decisive penalty kick, I think I leaped higher than John Fahey did when Juan-Antonio Samarranch proclaimed the 'weener' to be 'Sideny'!
I must sleep well in May '06 so I can handle the late nights in June :) 03/11/2005 Time of unrest A warm change in the air brings a powerful evil from the West. A veil of dread covers the land. A time of unrest is upon us. A time when men retreat to the Rüms of Seclusiâr and prepares for the battle that is set before them. There is a calm before the storm, named Stüvaĉ by the forefathers, but soon this calm will be a faint memory...
As the eruption of a volcano, the dark lord Examron will charge forth on his dark stallion. His lungs are said to consume time and life itself, and his exhale, a wind of fire that scorches the slothful mind.
The fate of the land rests upon a knife's edge, questions will be asked, but will the answers flow? 18/09/2005 CongratulationsWeddings are expensive and usually self-glorifying, the one I went to yesterday was neither. It is here that I need to clarify that I do not see any correlation between the amount of money spent and the quality of the wedding. A good wedding is one which gives thanks to God for our salvation in Christ and the great gift of marriage. Donovan and Broni did a good job in glorifying God on a day which signalled their joining together as husband and wife, and giving God the cred is definitely a good call and here's why.
May they joyously serve one another, but most importantly, may they wholeheartedly serve our Lord Jesus together. 16/08/2005 Today Tonight & A Current Affair = Rubbish TVI am absolutely disgusted with the quality of television that bombards the living rooms of Australia. I am particularly disappointed with Channel 7's Today Tonight for their slanderous outbursts which they try to call 'journalism'.
The cover story on the program was that 'migrants should assimilate'. Okay, a fairly valid point, my parents and I assimilated to the Australian culture because we saw it as honourable and proper to do so, no worries... However, Today Tonight placed an inappropriate and distasteful 'spin' on the piece, using contentious and racist academics from left field, such as disgraced Mac uni Professor Andrew Fraser, to comment on the issue. Remarks to the effect of 'black people are more violent, the whites are being overrun' is pure racism.
I contend that the story's underlying intention was to fuel people's ever-present thirst for hatred and I would also argue that quenching people's desire to hate is indeed the basic motive of Today Tonight and its more popular cousin, A Current Affair. Unfortunately, this tack is a proven ratings success.
Ironically, this distorted presentation on the immigration debate was followed up by a story on 'Australia's skilled labour shortage', calling for a) a better education system and b) skilled migrants to be brought in?? Talk about shooting themselves in the foot!
Being a migrant, it hurts... Being a Christian it hurts even more, to see people trying to justify and gratify their racist behaviour on television is further testimony to humanity's rejection of God. I'd urge all to boycott Channel 7's Today Tonight and Channel 9's A Current Affair as a silent protest against their destructive use of mass media. 29/07/2005 Frank Wars - Episode II: Attack of another darn virus... We are under attack from viral (rival? Well, only if you're dyslexic...) factions. Initial casualties were high, with the 1st Bloodborne Infantry of the Royal Immune System (RIS) unable to halt the progress of the initial viral offensive.
However, the intelligence arm of the RIS has gathered much valuable information. The primary tactics used by the invading forces have been ceased and much has been learnt. With new intelligence in hand, the RIS has launched a counter-attack, deploying millions of antibodies behind enemy lines to snuff out the infected cells.
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. 23/07/2005 The church is now clean. What a marathon!
My thanks go out to my fellow sufferers of the most gruelling church-clean ever. Grae & Rach, legends!
It was tough for two reasons:
So the equation we were left with was rather simple but tiring: one big church and 3 pairs of hands, 200 chairs and billions of dust particles to shift. We started at about 9:15am and after an hour and a half of work I realised that something was missing... Ahh! Music! After a quick dash to the car to grab some CDs and we were back on our way.
For the next couple of hours we worked to the melodic masterpieces of Vivaldi, Chopin & Tchaikovsky; which certainly helped my productivity (I hope Grae and Rach didn't mind...). We (Rach) even pointed out that 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' was in Harry Potter, there, a nice piece of movie soundtrack trivia. The layout of the chairs was also a challenge, due to inexperience and our tendencies toward perfectionism.
We finished up at 12:40pm, exhausted... I couldn't believe it when Rach said she had to stay back to do music prep 21/07/2005 Which theologian are you?
16/07/2005 "Holidays" It has certainly been an eventful couple of weeks since exam time, and not all of it could be considered a grand time.
After my final exam on the 28th of June I had a couple of days of rest which wasn't really restful at all. At that stage I seemed to have lost the art of relaxing, perhaps due to be being quite highly strung all semester. So without much time for my body to recover from exams, I plunged head first into the long week of Quakers Hill Anglican Church Kid's Klub or QuHACKK for short.
QuHACKK was a tremendously fruitful week as got to spread the gospel in various ways to the kids, and through the kids to their parents as well. By week's end I was worn down, my immune system was running on empty and after what was a few weeks of fairly full on uni work and church stuff I opened my body up for a viral invasion, which was exactly what happened.
On Friday I caught the flu, the proper flu says my doctor. I felt gradually worse as the day went on, symptoms included a high fever and shivering even with 3 layers and 3 blankets over the top of me. I recovered the next day and I though that it was the end of it. Hence why I decided that I was able to goto Mid Year Conference on Sunday, in hindsight it was a mistake.
For half a day I seemed to be okay, then just as we started Session 2 of talks on how to encourage one another during the week long camp I felt exactly the same things as I did on Friday. So I was confined to my bunk bed for most of the night, even getting up would cause me much discomfort and if I were to get up for more than 5 minutes e.g. during dinner, I felt the need to lie down as my energy levels plummetted and my body temperature fell dramatically. Not a great feeling.
A true testimony to the brotherly love of Christians was on display as many looked out for me and prayed for me as I laid half dead on the bunk bed. By 9pm I had decided to call go home as I needed good rest and we all know camps and good sleep don't go together. A good friend whom I first met in my first year of uni at CBM offered to drive me home, for which I am most thankful. On the drive to my place we got to know each other even more, a blessing in disguise perhaps.
I missed the first day of the camp as I rested at home, although I did make the night sessions of Tuesday and Wednesdsay, and thanks to mum's generosity in lending me the car for those evenings I didn't miss much at all. On Thursday I went back up to MYC, staying my only night of what was an eventful and rather out of the ordinary 'camp'. Still, I enjoyed it thoroughly due to good friends and great Bible teaching, particularly evident as God used Phillip Jensen to convict our hearts to serve others in love and in Christ, and most importantly, to take up our cross and follow Christ (Mark 8:34-36).
So all in all a rather trying few weeks, afterwhich I really do need some decent holidays before uni gets back into full swing as I am rather worn down. |
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. Good work all round and you guys will be getting pats on backs from me until heavy bruising occurs.
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