From the pen of Jason Chatterfield Cartoon

I am really enjoying church at the moment.
As I am speaking through the series on ‘who is Jesus’ it seems that God is speaking to me and revealing things to me that I had never considered before, or perhaps, had just not stopped to think about.
Jesus got mad, really mad.
I spoke from Mark 2, and the story of how Jesus got in trouble with the Pharisees because the disciples were picking grain on the Sabbat. Jesus brushes aside their concerns by referring to the precedent of David and the Holy bread. But I finished my message referring to the next story in Mark 3, where Jesus heals the man with the crippled hand, on the Sabbath, in direct, public, defiance of the mean spirited Pharisees. The Bible says he got mad, and the anger was something that was deep within him. What a hero!!

“He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!”

Judd has announced he is returning back to Victoria….cant blame him really, considering the culture at West Coast. Chris seems to me to be a decent, really decent, hard working bloke. Why would he want to stay at West Coast???

I cheered on Collingwood tonight…..thats once for the season…..
no more…thank goodness..

Go Geelong…..

Intense game…very intense. You could tell that WC were running out of legs by the end of the 4th quarter, and Collingwood’s running and pressure was going to get them over the line.
Amd Worsfolds decision to take Glass and Cox off the ground was quite puzzling..why didn’t he go for the jugular when he had the chance? In my view, they could have built a match winning lead…but instead, when those two were off, Rocca kicked two quick goals, and the Pies were back in it!
Great game by both sides though, have to admit W Toast were brave, this week and last…but out in straight sets for the finals. Not often a top four side do that! Straight to Bali for the boys….End of an era…..cant say I am sorry, because I am not…..Now to see whether Judd will re-sign, whether Cousins will resign, and whether the biggest liar….Chick, will get a late reprieve.

Am waiting for my Five Senses coffee to arrive, a Australian single origin from Capricorn Estate this time, and I was dying (literally…ask my wife if you dont believe me) for a coffee so I picked up some Fiori Beans from Fresh Provisions.
These were from Hondorus….and it appears to be Fair Trade Coffee. This is the nation of the child I sponsor, so I picked them on that basis alone.
It is a deep dark rich, almost oily bean…..and nice and strong.
After a fair old grind with my new burr type machine, the Latte was made…..beautiful.

The head of every man is Christ, the head of every woman is man…..
Interesting debate could follow.
The word for head is not ‘Lord’ nor master, but is in fact more the sense of ‘origin’. Paul goes back to Genesis where woman is said to have come from, found her origin in man, when God made her from Adam’s rib. (and started a whole heap of dud jokes!)
Later on Paul pleads for us to be aware that we need each other, when he states we are not independent of each other, because every man has come from a woman (except Adam of course). We need each other.

Paul also has the interesting point that woman was made for man, not man for woman. Woman was made to make up for the weaknesses than man has. She is the strong helper than comes alongside man and gives him what he does not have.
This is certainly true of me.

Interestingly enough, when I was going through this passage which a bunch of active smart 20 year olds, the overwhelming sense I got was that they wanted a return to old values, and blamed a lot of the issues with modern relationships with a moving away from this passage, they were more conservative in their views than I would have expected, or stated myself .
We talked about the modern malady of singleness in churches, which is a real issue. I feel deeply for those woman and men who hit 35-40, and realise they might not find a partner for life. Melinda and I often pray together for people….and we pray for those who just want to find someone, have kids and all that.

Their is certainly joy to be found in being single…and flexibility, and that too should be celebrated.

Now this might be controversial…but in community…in journeying together with other families…there would be situations where parents picking partners for their children would not be such a bad thing. If that was something the child understood from a young age, maybe was not bound too, it could be good.