In NSW our third school term for the year is now (finally) over and there is a reprieve of holidays for two weeks. For this I am thankful. My thankfulness is not just to the term calendar but to God, who is a God of rest. It is worth pausing momentarily to remind ourselves that …
Well, this weekend I smashed out the first essay for my Graduate Diploma of Divinity (I think that's what I'm enrolled in... I should probably pay more attention...). The assignment was interesting but it felt like I almost took just as much time with the referencing as I did the actually writing. Half a day, …
There was no possibility of my writing anything other than about Elizabeth II this week. What a treasured, steadfast and long reigning monarch; who almost never was a Queen. I was reminded of that afresh on Friday morning, Australia time. A rainbow reminded me. The rainbow is the first use of symbolism in The Bible …
As I'm continuing to study this semester, I'm reminded of short-term missions and how often they can be 'interesting'. Personally, I've only been on two trips that you could call short-term mission trips. They were both for a week, which is about as short as they usually get. One trip was to Vanuatu and the …
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