Jesus Loves Pornstars

Full marks for guts from the Bible Society Queensland on this one.
Bibles with covers “Jesus Loves Pornstars” at Sexpo and the new website www.xxxchurch.com to help people with sexual addictions.

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Biggest Wheelchair Distribution Ever

I’m sorry in my post-marriage euphoria I haven’t been more regular in my posting. As you know Amy wins out every time now. But I promise to get better…

Over the last week I’ve also been busy with the biggest wheelchair distribution that I’ve ever been involved with in Thailand. Over a week and a half [...]

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Freedom and Sovereignty: First Steps in Calvinism

After listening to all the debate on my first calvinism post, I finally purchased on everyone’s recommendation Chosen By God by R.C. Sproul today at Moore Books. I’m really looking forward to leaping into this theological subject that still seems all so new.
Before I start I want to put down on in my blog the two paradigms [...]

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What do you call someone who prays?

Apparently its a “prayer”! Pronounced “prey-er” rather than “prair”.
pray⋅er 2
/ˈpreɪər/ [prey-er]
–noun
a person who prays.
Origin: 1400–50; late ME preyare. See pray, -er 1

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Idea for Connect09: Helping the Elderly and Disabled

Dominic last night challenged our “creative congregation” to contribute ideas to how the church can reach out to Sydney in Connect09 .Well, here’s one idea.
When I did a lot of door-knocking around the Coogee-Randwick area in 2006-07 I was gob-smacked by the sheer number of elderly or disabled people who, essentially housebound, were unable to do simple household chores. [...]

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God Doesn’t Hate Sex!

Last year two good friends of mine decided to challenge the world’s view of sexuality head-on – and open an online sex store.
I must admit my first reaction was a little surprising. Why on earth would an adorable couple like Luke and Linda in the late twenties and who are very committed to Christianity open a sex [...]

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Islamic Art in Christendom

Watching Islam: Empires of Faith on Australia Network the other day about the peak of Islamic civilisation from the 8th to the 13th centuries.
According to the programme, one religious image in Europe shows the Virgin Mary dressed in a fine Islamic silk veil with the calligraphic line “there is no god but God”, a Qu’ranic reference to Allah.  
I’ve looked on the web [...]

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Calvinism for Dummies

I’m not sure how I got 25 years old without seriously assessing Calvinist theology, but I did. My hunch is that is the consequence of having spent my entire life until the last three years attending a Baptist church, but anyhow, that’s not the point.
Having spent those most recent years in an Anglican church finally [...]

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Best Online Bible

The world is going web-based and so is the Bible!
Online Parallel Bible isn’t the first online Bible but I think its the latest and greatest. Go to: http://bible.cc/.
Its got everything: a zillion parallel translations, Greek and Hebrew versions, modern language translations (biblos.com), concordance, cross-references, five commentaries, and even web links for each passage in the [...]

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Angels and Demons

How do we put the truths of the Bible in cultural and religious context? The age old question.
That we actually should put them into cultural and religious context is plain from Paul’s words and deeds.
And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, [...]

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