The Freo boys that is……
Probably the most dissapointing season ever….more than any other because there was real exectation we would do well….
With all the hype pre-season this should have been our best year. Everything was set for our club to continue on and do better than 2006. With star recruits and other players maturing, everything was in place, but it was not to be. Injuries, misdemenours, and unrest in the ranks, derailed our season.

But….there is a lot to look forward to in 2008. A new coach, who appears to have the players respect, and will impose his will on them. The best centre half forward in the AFL
The best crumbing forward.
One of the most creative and attacking defenses
Exciting ruckman.
Roll on 2008, it will be our best year ever.
focused captain, hopefully Bell plays on…..

And some other things to look forward too,
St Kilda continuing their slide down the ladder……..into obscurity……
West Coast players disgracing themselves….
Richmond moving up to their default position in 9th

After Freo gets flogged by Port……..
Its go Geelong, and after that….anyone but the high flying….in more ways than one…..weages. I’ll even barrack for the Pies or Port over that bunch of big sunglass wearing, smug, oily dorks. And if one more person tells me to support the WA side, I will not be responsible for my actions.

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.