One of the consequences of having a pagan or neo-pagan society is that the provision of trinkets, charms and idols becomes a profit center. Paul continually broke the command not to destroy profit centers. He had already been forced out of one town for freeing a slave woman from demonic possession. And here is has
Folks, can we all pray for Vanessa. She’s had a few problems with the Trash culture invading not only where she and her family are staying, but her family, and she has had to get her very sister to no longer stay with her. One of the things I have noted is that Instant anything
Last night I was talking to friends and family on facebook and that old thing the telephone because the clinical day had included aggression, abuse, and a smashed window. You cope…. and then the adrenalin continues to run throughout the night and you have difficulty getting to sleep. And in the back of my mind
I’ve just checked the usual way to get onto the webstie. Tt;s fairly clear that DNS propagation has not hit NZ. The very nice people at the webhost told me. It appears that dns was still resolving to the old server. I have migrated dns to from a2s73 to a2ss3. Please allow up 24 hours
Paul wrote multiple times that in his view circumcision was of no value. But he gets Timothy circumcised before they go on a missionary journey. The reason is “because of the Jews”. We know that Paul would generally start preaching in the synagogue and then, when kicked out, preach to the Gentlies. So why circumcize
I have just looked again at Google. It’s still pointing at the old website, hence no traffic. It does not matter. One should do the same with an audience and without an audience. So this morning, before Kirk, I sat down and (having got the IP address for this place loaded into my DNS —
The website server has been changed, and it is now up. There is a very small audience, which I’m finding strangely freeing. The traffic here is way down. So I have been playing with themes, added comment boxes, improved spam control and generally treated like I did at the beginning when I would change things
First thing this morning the website is still down in NZ. So I am back writing the blog in Abiword — I’m aware that WordPress will import word files, and Abiword is fairly lightweight, fast, does block quotes, and exports in the relevant format. I posted last night from a machine that has the new
We often talk about David as blessed by God. And that he was. But at the time of this passage, he is living as an outlaw, and he is fairly good at obtaining supplies. He also, like most warriors, has a short fuse and a murderously vengeful arm. The current narrative of the church about
Anyone who says therapy is about being comforted and assuaging feelings has never been in therapy. And therapy uses myths, metaphors and agreed narratives (or lies) to allow insight to come. Insight hurts. And Jesus has some mercy. For he used parables to illustrate the truth. For the truth is to hard for most to
