The Logic of Life
It never ceases to amaze and frustrate me the capacity normally intelligent, nice people have for rationalising the clinical murder of children…
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Oct 14, 2013 | Life, Politics, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
It never ceases to amaze and frustrate me the capacity normally intelligent, nice people have for rationalising the clinical murder of children…
Read Moreby David Pellowe | May 1, 2015 | Life, Spiritual, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
The Bali Nine knew the rules, they accepted the risks, they got caught. What I find remarkable is the deliberate lack of compassion by many Australians. Are we really that wilfully ignorant of the justice we’ve been spared?
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Sep 16, 2013 | Life, Spiritual, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
Some of my best thinking and articulation happens in response to challenges. I love being driven back to fundamental doctrines and Scriptures to scrutinise and consolidate my beliefs, and to then communicate this back to the conversant. An acquaintance recently challenged my response to another challenge of my faith in God as the Creator. Here’s how that conversation went…
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Nov 17, 2012 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
Equipping a society to maturely and respectfully disagree is far more progressive than to argue a universally acknowledged issue in conjunction with a far from concluded, divisive issue. The very sad thing was your motives for mixing the messages was the predictability of its divisiveness.
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Jun 6, 2012 | Life, Spiritual, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
Depression 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.
by David Pellowe | May 28, 2011 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
There are some great quotes about the futility of worry, but one of my favorites is that 90% of...
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Nov 2, 2010 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
This video will make you cringe, it will make you gasp, it will make you hold your breath in disbelief. But I love it for its awesome people who’ve overcome their fear.
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Oct 29, 2010 | Life, Politics, Spiritual, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
74% of Queensland voters are opposed to abortion past the first trimester
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Oct 25, 2010 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 2 |
You schedule a regular payment to someone else’s account on the internet. Zero wages or employee assistance required. The time for transfer comes, and the computer compares your balance to the amount required. The computer, in less than a second, says, “If balance available is less than balance required, then send Transaction Failed electronic message to account holder, else process scheduled transaction.” Again, zero wages or employee assistance required. Clearly, there are no variable overheads incurred by these mammoth corporate citizens, certainly not any justifying a $9 fee as charged by Westpac, or $6 as quoted to me by ANZ.
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Apr 7, 2010 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
In 1996, Hetty Johnston was busy, but blissfully ignorant. Hetty had left a career in corporate administration to spend time with her newborn daughter, but getting restless had again become active in her home town community of...
Read Moreby David Pellowe | Jan 7, 2010 | Life, Thinking Out Loud | 0 |
Few people know that there are less than 100 active Men and Women State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers across the whole of Logan City charged with the care of over 250,000 people across over 900 square kilometres in times of...
Read MoreThe topics I'll be addressing in this blog will be practical teaching designed to resource believers and church leaders in better understanding how politics works in Australia, and how the Church works in politics (and vice versa).
These will include:
• Separation of Church & State?
• Australia's Christian Identity
• Prolific Politics in the Bible
• Love Like the Good Samaritan
• Preach It, Nehemiah
• The Australian Political System
• How Jesus Would Vote
• The Importance of Prayer