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Not self mutilation.
Posted on August 12, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
This passage is linked in the lectionary with Paul talking to Ephesians. Stumbling blocks are not merely sensuous or sexual. It is anything that takes people away from Christ. We have to be as careful with our financial situation as we do with our diet, or our fidelity, or chastity. Acts 20:33 I coveted noRead More »
Hope hunts with faith, not pills.
Posted on August 11, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
This year, I will spend the first nine months in Dunedin. Then in September and October I am travelling — to conferences, to see my parents, to celebrate my father’s birthday (God willing — he’s getting closer to ninety and still teaching). And when I travel I note that this world is pretty awful outsideRead More »
Hidden and upside down.
Posted on August 10, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
Some days are simply not going to go as planned. Saturdays normally are the one day of the week where there is nothing on until 11 AM and I enjoy that: this morning one son was up at 5 AM because he is worried about a school competition he has to help with. So heRead More »
The pagan business.
Posted on August 9, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 5 responses
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 hasRead More »
Instant anything is bad for you.
Posted on August 2, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
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 anythingRead More »
Confrontation.
Posted on August 1, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
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 mindRead More »
Slavery, and administrivia. (Or, Al Sharpton owns slaves)
Posted on July 31, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 2 responses
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 hoursRead More »
Is Paul a hypocrite? Yes, and a pragmatist as well.
Posted on July 29, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
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 circumcizeRead More »
Google cannot reach here. Meh.
Posted on July 28, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
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 —Read More »
Not afraid to tell you that you are damned.
Posted on July 27, 2013 | By Chris Gale | 0 responses
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 thingsRead More »
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