Sometimes we feel unable to do what Jesus is asking, likewise the disciples asked for more faith. “Even if you had faith as small as a mustard seed…” Jesus said to the disciples, and us, “You already have faith, you just aren’t using it. You need to increase your faithFULNESS!”
Read MoreDepression is a very real & debilitating condition.
It’s not a bad attitude. It’s not merely weak responses or poor choices. It’s certainly not a sin. It’s a state of health as valid & real as broken bones. And it’s common, approximately 1 in 3 people will be affected at some stage in their life.
Mark 5:24-34 (NLT) [24] Jesus went with him, and the crowd thronged behind. [25] And there was a woman in the crowd who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years. [26] She had suffered a great deal from many doctors through the years and had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she was worse. [27] She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched the fringe of his robe. [28] For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his clothing, I will be healed.” [29] Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel that she had been healed! [30] Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” [31] His disciples said to him, “All this crowd is pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” [32] But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. [33] Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and told him what she had done. [34] And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. You have been healed.” Romans 10:17 (NLT) Yet faith comes from listening to this...
Read MoreIt must absolutely break the heart of God when, in His Name, His children hurt other people, both Believers and the Lost.
Some Christians are the best argument against Christianity, I’m so sad to admit. There’s no more validity in that though then in not voting for someone you like because one of their volunteers offended you.
I posted an email I received on my Facebook wall, & a great debate ensued.
“The folks who are getting free stuff, don’t like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.”
“I’m pro choice. I think the baby should choose it’s destiny. All life is precious and to be fought for, at every stage.”
A “for” and “against” debate on the controversial topic of abortion – great reading.
Read More“A young woman from Bayview was about to finish her first year at Sydney University.
Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be politically concerned about “social justice”, and she was very much in favour of higher taxes to support her education and for more government programs – in other words, the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply embarrassed that her father was a rather staunch blue-ribbon Liberal Party voter…”
Read MoreThat any Australian could luxuriate in the comfort of our physical, philosophical and political safety and comfort, and not equally sympathise with the suffering and loss on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but rather unconditionally vilify one side over another is tantamount to the political amorality of 1930s Germany.
Read MoreVocal Minority Rejected As Viable Majority It is absolutely incredible how well organised the transparently-hypocritical, social-fringe Left are when it comes to actively regressing social values. Hypocritical because, despite lauding the benefits of separating Church and State, they want Government to redefine an institution and Holy Sacrament of the Church, millenia older than any modern State’s constitution. Hypocritical because despite staunch criticism of any preaching of the Word of God as an infliction of one religious view over another, they want to inflict their secular, humanistic and hedonistic religion on the dictionary definition of marriage. Hypocritical because despite (rightly)...
Read MoreThere are some great quotes about the futility of worry, but one of my favorites is that 90% of what we worry about will never come to pass. Whatever cute clichés you may have heard and forgotten, you can’t debate this one. It’s true. Worry is the biggest waste of energy and if anything, often a catalyst for things that didn’t need to go wrong to do so. I will stipulate here and once only, that being too relaxed and laid back can also be a mistake – but don’t worry about that for the rest of this article....
Read MoreThere is plenty of media sensationalism and natural hysteria surrounding any proposal of adopting a greater reliance on nuclear energy in Australia. And all political leaders have said it’s not current policy, while others who prefer to live in the fringes of social reality categorically won’t even consider it a debate worth having – apparently “radical” is okay if it’s something the Greens consider important! I call on Tony Abbott or Julia Gillard to educate us on the facts apart from the emotion, such as are outlined in the article below from the BBC, and facilitate a debate without foregone conclusions, and to conclude it with a clearly communicated policy position or strategy to take to the next election. Forget this safe middle ground rubbish, and at least have the courage of your convictions. Moreover, facilitate our opinion with some well presented and researched arguments such as the article below. If the realities of climate change are directly related to our greed for carbon emitting power, surely this is not an optional but an essential debate to be educated on the pros and cons of. Technology has radically changed, and we really don’t know what we’re talking about anymore. Forget subsidised-compensated taxes/levies/”prices” without any real details beyond the “good idea”, and let’s talk about real solutions, not just problem reductions. Our need for energy won’t go away unless we...
Read MoreRecent tragedies in Japan must inform a debate on coal alternatives such as nuclear energy, not stifle it. If the Greens want to be taken seriously, they must allow and participate in such a debate without hysteria, and without vilifying their opponents. The only sources of ‘base-power’ are coal and nuclear. All others are complimentary, but do not make coal redundant. Nuclear must be debated if anthropogenic climate change is real. – The Philtheist Carbon price ‘would need to be tripled’ to force change from coal-fired electricity Dennis Shanahan, Political editor From: The Australian March 12, 2011 A CARBON tax will have to be set at $60 a tonne — three times the expected $20 tax to be set next year — to force electricity generators to switch from dirty brown coal in southeastern Australia to cleaner gas to reduce greenhouse emissions. Gas-fired electricity generation would not become a commercially viable replacement for brown coal in southeastern Victoria because coal is so relatively cheap and gas prices are rising, according to industry projections. Industry and investment analyses have also found compensation lower than Kevin Rudd promised would destroy up to 60 per cent of the value of brown coal electricity generators, place the electricity network “at risk”, cut power, create cost spikes and close generating companies. Julia Gillard has announced a fixed price will be placed on every tonne...
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