Category Archives: ThoughtLife

Naked and Not Ashamed

Published on Wednesday, November 23, in the year of our Lord 2011

Isn’t it great when we discover new things to feed on! As I posted recently on the Facebook page of City On A Hill, I have been amazed by the ways that my sinfulness is affecting me and even more glad for the grace of God that is incomprehensibly more powerful than the shame and [...]

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The creative side of the law

Published on Monday, November 14, in the year of our Lord 2011

When we look through the many laws of the OT a number of times we can’t help but feel a little restricted. The piety of law sleeping looks better from the outside than for those who had to keep these regulations. Much if the law has been changed by the person and work of Jesus [...]

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Already like Him

Published on Monday, November 14, in the year of our Lord 2011

Somtimes we learn little things from passages we’ve looked at many times before. This one comes from Genesis 3:4-5 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” [...]

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Subversive Art for Christians

Published on Thursday, October 13, in the year of our Lord 2011
Meek. Mild. As if.

My interest in this was piqued after watching the documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. Basically this is a documentary is about the emergence of Stencil art and Street Art. It has a disappointing storyline that sees some remarkable work on display in the early periods of the genre and the film reaches its conclusion in the [...]

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And the past cannot be undone . . .

Published on Monday, October 25, in the year of our Lord 2010

I have been considering my return to work. While I do have a few ‘irons in the fire’, I have also been following up opportunities with my previous employer, Bowens Timber and Building Supplies. I worked in a range of roles within the company, none of them in a management position, and I enjoyed the 6 [...]

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Pondering the ‘Problem of Evil’

Published on Saturday, September 18, in the year of our Lord 2010

Following some of my earlier posts about the philosophical concept of determinism, I have been reading about the Problem of Evil on Wikipedia. One of the common ways that I have heard people argue against the existence of God is to raise questions that suggest the logical impossibility of God, at least as most theists would understand God. [...]

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Unanswered questions from a theological education

Published on Thursday, September 16, in the year of our Lord 2010

It is with the greatest disappointment that, as I reflect on my time at Ridley, I did not resolve the greatest task – the most important question – that I had hoped to have dealt with. I had hoped, with a degree of earnestness, to answer sufficiently the difficult question of God and evil. I [...]

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A Walkabout Time

Published on Thursday, July 1, in the year of our Lord 2010

I have finished at the hospital. Wednesday was my last day. I am glad to be out of there but I am sad too. I guess this is a reasonable response to a period that was very rewarding and very challenging. I plan on posting about this experience soon; the drafts are underway. This post [...]

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The limited nature of time-bound choices

Published on Saturday, June 26, in the year of our Lord 2010

I have been reading an essay by Oliver Crisp ('Penal non-substitution' in A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology [T&T Clarke, 2009: ISBN 78-0567031464]) in which he uses a helpful analogy to demonstrate the range of possibilities to which God could turn for atonement. In particular, Crisp is working through a clarification of hypothetically necessity. All that to [...]

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Apple’s branding and followers of Jesus

Published on Friday, June 25, in the year of our Lord 2010

Like Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere by   from Farhad Manjoo at Fast Company: The brains of Apple fans really are different. When Martin Lindstrom, a brand consultant and author of Buyology: The Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, examined those brains under a functional magnetic-resonance-imaging scanner, he discovered that Apple devotees [...]

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