Carlton are now the only side in the AFL with two pratts…….

Cervantes has got to be one of my favourite places on earth…
Even during school holidays it is quiet….

Managed to catch some fish, cooking them up tonight….

Good friends came up with us, and it was great to share it with them. One of them brought up his father in laws Landcruiser…and it went alright in the sand…not as good as the Vitara though 🙂

more blogging soon.
In the meantime, Hamos blog on the Global Leadership Summit is thoughtful and fair and worth checking out.

Good service this morning….
Laid back, contemplative service as we looked at the Eucharist, our first element in the series…’Remember’, as we look at some ancient traditions which inform contemporay practices. We did the new Hillsongs son..’Saviour King’ E and K did a great job of it as an item. Also continuing to enjoy some great coffee after the service! I involved the kids, asking them to repeat the phrase Jesus said, “do this to remember me”

This afternoon this great news came in…

“The term ‘spiritual captain’ has been over used in the last couple of seasons, but one player who certainly does fit the title is the Dockers former captain, Peter Bell. In a sign of confidence in the direction of the club from the port, Bell has confirmed that he will play on in 2008.

Rookie Dockers coach Mark Harvey is believed to have worked very hard to convince Bell to continue his stellar career, capped off with what many pundits believe to be his most productive season in 2007. He was used very effectively as a pinch hitting forward pocket player, supplementing the superb work of Jeff Farmer.

The news will come as a surprise to popular football commentator Tim Gossage, who on Friday stated that Bell would definitely not play on in 2008.” (Perth Norg)

Off to Cervantes tommorow with some friends….cant wait…fishing, beer, pancakes and sleeping in…..need the break…back mid week.

I am using this one on Sunday, to kick off our Remember Series.

Recently I heard the leader of the secular party of Australia declare that there is no historical writer who attests to the person of Jesus….mmm…

“Jesus, Wise Man and Teacher: Antiquities 18.3.3 “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, (if it be lawful to call him a man,) for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. (He was the Christ;) and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, (for he appeared to them alive again the third day,) as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct to this day.”

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Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian who lived circa 56-120 AD. He is believed to have been born in France or Gaul into a provincial aristocratic family. He became a senator, a consul, and eventually governor of Asia. Tacitus wrote at least four historic treatises. Around 115 AD, he published Annals in which he explicitly states that Nero prosecuted the Christians in order to draw attention away from himself for Rome’s devastating fire of 64 AD. In that context, he mentions Christus who was put to death by Pontius Pilate. Christus: Annals 15.44.2-8 “Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome…”

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Craig Groeschel made the point that ‘today’s contemporary is tomorrow’s traditional’

This dad does not, and he is not the first one.

“THE father of a top young Victorian footballer has expressed concern that his son could be drafted to West Coast.
Peter Cotchin, father of star midfielder Trent, told the Herald Sun he was concerned his 17-year-old boy could land in a dangerous environment.
“It’s just the culture of the footy club . . . in the back of your mind you do worry about those things,” Mr Cotchin said. “

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