By onlinesoph
A wise preacher said in a sermon that every human being has a Functional Saviour, i.e. something you turn to, other than God, in order to make your life better.
A functional saviour (or at least my understanding of it) can be something found in the present, or hoped for in the future. It is something that [...]

By onlinesoph
I finished reading Don Carson’s The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God this week. Again, it would take more time than I have right now to fully blog my thoughts on this book, save to say that I found it really confronting and thought-provoking.
Instead, I’ll leave you with a beautiful hymn that Carson quotes [...]

By Onlinesoph
Clare the Kings Cross Bogan, being interviewed on ACA. The whole thing is lame. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, maybe that’s a good thing.

By onlinesoph
I feel like I should read the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I’ve resisted in the past, but after seeing the movie on the weekend, I can’t make up my mind.
Here’s the cons for reading Twilight:
1. It’s aimed at pre-teen and teenage girls. I am, by a significant age gap, neither.
2. There’s four in [...]

By SamR
One of the things about a church plant is that you simply have to step up and do things that need doing. During our time at Annandale, there were a stack of guys who were willing and able to serve on the music team, and so I rarely helped with music at all apart [...]

By onlinesoph
Things have been pretty overwhelming lately. The redundancies keep rolling in the mag, which means my workload has significantly increased. I’m putting a lot of pressure on myself to do my job well. I dream about work. I think about it in the morning and at night, when I’m not in the office. On [...]

By onlinesoph
I bought a fennel today from the fruit market. It was really cheap - 99 cents for a big, white bulby thing.
My idea of fun: buying a totally random item from the shops – something you’d never normally cook with – and trying to make up a recipe for it. Last week it was this turnip looking vegetable [...]

A new Ethiopian Harar (Oh yeah!) is on offer with the blend this coming fortnight. Get into it.

By SamR
Just did an essay on the English reformation and remembered this video. It’s not exactly good history – but as those boys from the Pilgrims Podcast would say – ‘flippin’ hilarious.

…of clicking into people’s blogs, only to use their sidebar to click into blogs I want to read.
Are you?
It’s too much of a hassle to remember new URLs for blogs, I’m not able to set up RSS feeds at work and my “Favourites” list is packed with work-related sites. So I often click into people’s sites, [...]