Mmmmmmm…what do you eat for Christmas Lunch?
Today I went to some friends house and ‘dedicated’ their child in their backyard. Beautiful sunshine in their Freo backyard, lovely drink food etc.

Number one son is a real gourmet eater…at the age of 7. Straight past all the standard kids table and onto the cheese…dad…can I have some of this Gouda, and some Dutch smokehouse….a decent slice of cheese later, and he was checking out the olives and other condiments.

What does he want for Christmas lunch? None of that ham or pork dad, I want a seafood buffet, crab, crayfish, prawns and fish dad……

sigh….. 🙂

Watching Mark Driscoll’s series on “The Peasant Princess” at the moment.
One thing he keeps saying, which really hit home for me, was this….’your wife should be the standard of beauty’…however she looks…that is beautiful…

Not hard when you have a pretty wife like I do….but in this image saturated society, a great reminder.

Here is an excellent example of some of the work of Muddy River Media.
I am going to use this in two weeks time, when I talk about dealing with the relatives at Christmas time. You can download this for free from http://www.muddyrivermedia.org/

I realise this post comes from a position of a fair amount of ignorance….so forgive me in advance but….

Since the crisis has kicked in our family…

1. has had its monthly mortgage greatly reduced, meaning we have maintained the level of repayment, but are seriously eating into the principle, with the promise of further cuts to come

2. Our petrol bill has been reduced by a third, I got petrol today for 1.08, when last month I was paying up to $1.55

3. We are receiving $2000 from our new best friend, Kevin Rudd, which will pay for our holiday next July

What concerns me
Every government in the world is instituting massive public works projects, including China. This is not good for our long term environmental goals
Seniors who are dependent upon their Super are suddenly discovering their net worth is halved or worse….
Young people who have been full of optimism and courage about their future, and thus were willing to dream, may now have to reassess their life goals.

that churches with ‘Grace’ in their title are normally anything but…

that people think a version of the scriptures which has been categorically proved to be one of the most innacurate….is the one they insist using…

that some folk insist that a song written in the 1800’s is somehow more holy than those written in 2008…..

that some who insist the church be tolerant….then are very intolerant of the church….

that sometimes people’s selfishness riles me…when I struggle with selfishness….

that I encourage people to show faith…but struggle with courage to follow through on my convictions….and be bold…..

These guys are awesome….and funny.
They are giving away a free piece of media in December, as they did last year.
Good stuff at the best possible price!!

Worship House Media