Is it good to grow up being a pastors son?
I don’t know, having grown up an engineers’ son.
I worry about my boy, he is such a great kid. But then I am also glad for some reasons too.
I worry because being a pastors son is not like being a fireman’s son, or even a businessman’s son. At some point it will be embarassing for him being my son….maybe it is now.

But then I am glad too. What other dad gets to pick their son up from school and take him out to kick the footy? Some do, in fact there are about two or three dads when I pick him up. Yet being a pastor is a lot more flexible that other professions.

But then I am out a lot at night, sometimes 4-5 nights a week. Normally he is in bed at 7.15pm, so it does not affect him too much, yet.

Sometimes when I am feeling irrationaly depressed about it I remind myself that it is better to be a pastors son that a drug addicts son !!!

Most of all I want him to grow up in a church that he loves, that is indispensible to the community, that is exciting, contemporary and relevant….that probably drives me as much as anything.

Googling your own name is something we have all done, but none of us would admit it.
There are stacks of Mark Edwards’s in the world, from rock stars to geologists.
There are a number of Mark Edwards’s who are Pastors. One of them leads a church in Queensland, he also posts on Phil Baker’s blog…..For those who have asked, it is not me….I have not had a coffee made from cat poo beans……

I have three blogs….thats enough.
(And yes, I know that is probably not how you spell the plural for Mark Edwards…but you get the idea)

Here’s that message on Noah I promised you…..

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Here is an interesting fact…sort of…and not for the squemish.

1 Corinthians 6: 18 Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. 20 Each one should remain in the situation which he was in when God called him.

Why did Paul write this? Well at Corinth there were ‘athletic games’. These were played in the nude by the athletes. Some of the Jewish and other competitors were embrassed by the fact their ‘old fella’ was circumcised. So… they were actually having a pseudo reverse type operation to make it look like everyone elses….true…

The English, cynical, yet often able to see right through rubbish. If cynicism is taken too far, it leads to bitternerr, or closed minds.
Many pastors have put out rubbish, said a lot of stupid things…and the rest of us pay for it.
I wonder if Australians are a bit more balanced. A bit more discerning…I hope so.

As alluded to in the last post, a certain Melbourne based AFL club has had its confidential medical records lost, literally in the gutter, which reveal that two players from the same club had failed drug tests twice, and had both been admitted to the same drug rehab clinic. I know who the two players are, but am not going to say on this forum.

Brendan Gale has come out quite angrily threatening that players will protest the breach of confidentiality by boycoting some Channel Seven events, and he has also harshly criticised the AFL.

But the most laughable event is AFL head hunch Andrew Demetriou who has come out angrily at Channel Seven. He is seriously trying to deflect attention away from the AFL’s own ineptitude in allowing this material to get out. Its like blaming someone for broadcasting something you have done wrong. The AFL have form in this area…..and so I dont buy his denying of AFL’s own responsibility in this area.

Amazing how birds seem to flock together, do the same sort of thing…even football teams with bird names……
If you dont know what I mean, you did not hear the news on Friday before the AFL put in its injunction.