tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62940062011-07-31T07:17:57.321+10:00The life & times of Joe of Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Have a look at July & August 2002 archives if you have any interest in Egypt.Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957490929664173367noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6294006.post-12003654771857127542010-09-14T19:38:00.000+10:002010-09-14T19:38:44.096+10:00

I titled this mini-sermon It's All Relative because God is relational, the gospel is relational; salvation is about having a right relationship with God which results in a right relationship with people; sin is what breaks relationship; indeed the meaning of life, the universe and everything is not 42 as readers of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy might think, but love, which is about how we

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Introduction Moses wrote the law which is a shadow of the reality found in Jesus Christ. He. 10:1, "The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming - not the realities themselves." I'm preaching on Moses as the first in a series on great characters of the bible. It is appropriate to begin this series with Moses as he is a foundational character in the bible. God saved a family line

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Watched Zeitgeist The Movie, Part 1 last night over the internet. It's good to be able to finally watch a movie over the internet full screen on a 19" monitor without pausing after all those years of being on dial up access. I noticed a couple of misrepresentations about Christianity in it: No Christian scholar believes Jesus was born on December 25th, that was just the appropriation of a pagan

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I asked to speak about forgiveness because it had come up in a couple of situations, such as my Tuesday night life group, and God has given me a couple of insights into forgiveness I wanted to share. To forgive others and be forgiven by God is essential for our salvation, health and well being. Forgiveness is letting go of the desire to see someone punished for their sin and leaving them in God

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G'day. I reckon Windows 7 is the greatest thing since Windows XP, which was pretty great. Windows XP came out almost ten years ago and it is still widely used today. One thing about Windows 7 which is good is the ability to share files and printers accross a home network easily. Blessings, Joe :-)

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Well I've neglected this blog since I've been carried away by Facebook. Blessings, Joe :-)

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Just read "The Shack," which basically puts my concept of God down in words. Great read. It is a profound and interesting book, it's effect on me reminding me of the film "What the bleep do we know?," except that where "What the bleep?" reveals concepts that lead me to where I am today, "The Shack" reveals concepts that are exactly where I am at now.Blessings,Joe :-)

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I've been back to New Zealand for eleven days staying with Mark & Lucy in Auckland.Thursday 22 - had a pretty good flight and was out to where Mark was waiting for me by not long after 3pm, then headed home where we picked up his son and went to a skateboard park for about 20 minutes, after which we dropped off his son and met a friend of Mark's at a local pub overlooking the beach (when Mark and

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A few weeks ago on a Wednesday I received one of my regular emails from Flight Centre with a deal for airfares in and out of Christchurch and a week in a motor-home for $475 provided I booked the trip by the following Friday, and the deal was based on two persons renting the motor-home. Several phone calls and one Centrelink loan later and I was booked to fly to Christchurch the Friday after

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G'day (as I usually begin my emails). It's been a long time since I've done a post, and even longer since one appeared (for some reason my last post back in March didn't appear on my web site & I've only just noticed [I forgot to update my blog settings when my ISP changed hands]). Well I've been on a four week break from TAFE and came across a really cheap deal on a week in New Zealand with a

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I'm studying a Business Administration Certificate III at TAFE. In June I will get Certificate II & I'll see if I can get a really suitable job, & if not I'll do the Certificate III part at the end of the year. I found it's too long since I've worked for me to get a job, so I'm doing this course to make myself employable, then I hope to get a part time job as an administrator or even an

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I've just been reading a great book by Fritjof Capra called "The Hidden Connections" which is about a network view of science & life, the consequences of economic rationalism & unbridled capitalism (which is basically death for us all if things continue as the are going), & some different ways of doing things that will lead us away from destruction.I thought I was going to write a whole big blurb

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I bumped into Anne in the street the other day & she invited me to her & David's birthday, which was on Saturday evening starting 5pm. It was a great party, of course; their family always throw great parties. There were 11 other people who had been involved in Guruganya in some way who would have known me since I was about 4. I thought this was ironic & appropriate hours after I put my musings

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I've been thinking about changes in my thinking about the meaning of life, the universe & everything through time.Hippiedom:When I was 4 I started at a school called Guruganya (guru - Hindi for teacher, ganya - an aboriginal word for hut or home), which was like a hippie commune built around a school, with many of the students & staff living next door to the main building. I guess the values

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GeeksThere are 10 types of people in the world. Those that get binary jokes & those that don't. What is sad about this joke is that the fact that I get it means I really am a computer nerd, but then anyone who has a geek code definately is.An explanation of this joke.LifeOn the first day...On the first day God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door Of your house and bark at anyone

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G'day. I finally twigged as to why I'm so much more capable when away from home (or at least I'm finally putting it down, I guess I've really known it somewhere in the back of my head for years): When I'm at home I am to some degree dependent on my mum for support (less so if she's not around but it's still the case while I live in her house). I feel guilty about being dependent on my mum, but

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grumbleAfter I got back from my friend's funeral in Bowen (not Mackay which was where I was going to visit him while he was alive), I came back & found my computer wasn't working. Because it was pouring rain that week & I don't have a car it wasn't until the next week I could put it in at the shop, which turned out to be a blown motherboard & CPU which required me to re-install Windows XP once I

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I have been very busy with Brackets & Jam organising a big event that was on the 28th May then we went for a smaller event on the 18th of June which I helped prepare for but didn't attend as I was still recovering from the 28th. Both went really well with up to 200 people there & probably about 400 during the day for the first event with rap, local children dancing, Brazilian dance, music &

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G'day ya'll. I went to a movie at the Dendy @ Newtown with Steve on Sat. night called What the bleep do we know? It was about how a basic knowledge of Quantum Mechanics & neurophysiology can inform our world view. It's pretty much exactly where my headspace was about a year before I became a Christian & I'm still in agreement with 99.5% of what they were on about. It made an excellent jumping off

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G'day. We had the Brackets & Jam AGM followed by a GM about 2 big events for the Redfern Community Centre on the 28th May & the 18th June. The planning meetings will be at my place every Monday night & as I'm very much a people person, having all my B&J friends around every week will energise me & motivate me. I'm already buzzing a bit & feeling pretty good about finding us some grants that will

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Yes I am a fan of Jesus Christ Superstar the rock opera even though it was written from the point of view of Judas & I regard a lot of the words as a blind person's desperate groping for truth. Well I've put in the first really solid work as administrator for Brackets and Jam & it was really satisfying. It feels really good to be the catalyst for getting together a whole bunch of people who

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Just thought I'd mention that I've decided to use adult's first names in my posts & leave out all details of children except their existence (eg. "a song I wrote for a friend of mine"), & I've edited previous posts to remove personally identifying details particularly about children I know. Exceptions are for those people who want to be identified, eg. friend's who've produced an album they want

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G'day. Well I've taken over as the administrator of Brackets and Jam. It's the first regular paid work I've done since April 1992. Yay!! It's only part time, but at least it's a start. I've had other indications I am still getting better from the CFS but it's still painfully slow. I was mucking around with a bit of computer programming in Nov. & Dec., which is the first time I've successfully

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Oh cXXp! I just sent an email about elders to 'Gracepoint Christian Church' & forgot that that name in my address book is not the email address of my church but a group I created with everyone in my address book who goes to my church! If that's not bad enough, it's out of date & holds email addresses of people who haven't been part of it for quite some time. Well I've deleted that group but sorry

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Here are some resources to go with my sermon. Contact any of these places for more information on refugees & free email newsletters about refugees in most cases: Brett Solomon Refugee Campaign Coordinator Amnesty International Australia 29 Shepherd St, Chippendale, NSW Locked Bag 23, Broadway, NSW 2007 refugeebulletin@amnesty.org.au http://www.amnesty.org.au/ ChilOut - Children Out of Detention

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It's the Australian National Council of Churches Refugee Sunday today (as opposed to World Refugee Day which was a couple of months ago) & I preached for the first time in the morning service (the bigger service, there were over a hundred people) & the first time at all for over 3 years. I spoke after the minister who gave that stats (like 90% of arrivals detained are eventually recognised as

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This is a conversation I had with a friend on Windows Messenger yesterday. Greg is not his real name, only the name, spelling mistakes & spacing have been changed [& stuff in square brackets added]. ___________________________________________________________________ Greg says: G'day Joe, how's life? Joe says: Good. I have finished weeks of having mysterious problems & getting nowhere & now

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Yay!! After almost 3 years I've finally successfully recorded a song I wrote for a friend of mine to CD, a song I wrote for his 2nd birthday that he's probably going to find a bit babyish now that I've finally put it in a form he can listen to. The process has involved my destroying the input side of my onboard sound & a sound card I purchased through eBay, learning the difference between line

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Mark from New Zealand got in contact with me as a result of the email about miscellaneous information about myself and ended up staying here Thursday night while he was on business in Sydney. Darren from up north stayed here that night as well as he had a job interview in Sydney the next morning. Mark took us out to dinner and we had a good chat & catch up. Then on Monday night I got a call from

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Someone sent me an email: Welcome to the 2004 edition of getting to know your friends. What you're supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you'll send. Change all the answers so they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you'll learn a lot of little known

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Well I made it to the World Refugee Day rally & march, just missing a few speeches after going to the worship ministry meeting at Gracepoint. The meeting was really good as well & I'll be back to playing bass once a fortnight as of the 11th of July. I met a few friends at the rally, Ben & Sole, & Jodie & their friend Kate who I hadn't met before. We did end up running down the road to catch up

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I picked myself up an Expresso maker the other day. Although I'm not a huge hot drinks person & would often prefer a milkshake to a coffee, I do enjoy a decent cup of coffee or tea or hot chocolate from time to time, particularly when I'm with friends enjoying the same. Mainly it'll be so people can have a decent cup of coffee when they drop in. I have to develop my basic cooking skills again.

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I'm letting my average down here, previously averaging one post per week & now not posting anything for a month. Well I've been a bit sick with a cold for the last week & a bad cough every since the family camp (going on two months). I actually knocked myself out momentarily blowing my nose the other day, fortunately I was in a chair at the time so I didn't fall over; it nearly blew my eardrum

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G'day. It's been a season of catching up with old friends (& it's not over yet) with me making the effort to track down phones numbers & give people a ring (I haven't rung everybody I want to get in touch with) & going to Melbourne to see people I haven't seen in up to 6 years; & an old friend sending me an email after stumbling accross my web site that I haven't seen in 22 years. He was my

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G'day. Well I've caught the train to Melbourne & I'm sitting in Jon's office writing this blog. It's been a great few days leading up to getting here & for the trip down. Thursdays walk around the park was postponed to Friday & I didn't do anything on Thursday. Unfortunately unbeknownst to me Everett had received my message about walking in the park and was there at 4pm. Friday I went for the

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We had a great church camp over the weekend. I have felt like my church is my family (not to the exclusion of my blood relatives) until now, but I feel like that even more so now. It feels very much like my extended family on my dad's side, and reminds me that both those writing Scripture & those to whom the letters in the NT were sent were in cultures with extended families. We in our Western

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A friend of mine was going to drive to Melbourne last week & wanted someone to keep them company on the drive. I started thinking about catching up with Jon & Liz & their family and Helen & Tom & their family, the former of whom I hadn't been in contact with for years & the latter I hadn't seen for years, but they found a cheap flight on the 'net & flew down. I started thinking about cheap train

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At 2pm Wednesday Simon, Bowson, Mark Eliott & myself had a meeting with Beth & Anne Marie from the Redfern Community Centre, Hugo St. Chippendale. We (B&J) will be providing the entertainment for a monthly markets to be run at the Centre to showcase local talent (that is, the market will have an emphasis on local talent & culture rather than the same earrings found in every other market). There

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Well we got through the worship conference on the 27th-28th of March & I received heaps of feedback about how good it was, including comments such as "Peter Stacey would be great to have as a speaker at one of our worship camps" (a worship camp is where everyone on the worship team gets together and has a weekend retreat somewhere about once every two years). People want more of him. Well there's

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Michael's moved back in. We're walking but not as much as we used to. My computer's HD died a couple of hours after I finished installing a new one and doing a complete backup of the oldie. Not bad timing. I had picked up the W32.MyDoom virus and had to invest in some anti-virus software & disinfect my computer, then my HD started making grinding noises and some things have been impossible to

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Dear Sir, On Sunday the 15th of February 2004 Thomas James Hickey was impaled on a fence & died while riding his bike. His parents claim he was frightened by police causing his death, and although surveillance footage shows it was not him the police were after; this does not preclude his death being caused by his fear of police. I don’t know, I wasn’t there. I do know, however, that police

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I thought I'd tie up a few loose ends from previous posts as well as mentioning the stuff I am or will be doing. If you read the stuff about a home group (bible study etc.) for prisoners on day release in About Me, it fell through months ago because not enough of them wanted to continue coming (I think the main guy converted to Islam). I have not moved to Crescent Head & have decided definately

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There is a partition for the refugees on Nauru you might want to take a look at at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/975950129 As for me I am about to hand in my first job application in 17 years to apply for the first job I will have had in 12 years. If you pray and you read this I would appreciate your prayers. I've realised a lot of the problems I have are the result of the low self

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G'day ya'll. This is my first post so I'm just going to say something to get the ball rolling. I would have liked to have this as part of my Geocities site http://www.geocities.com/joemithiran/ but a free Yahoo Geocities site doesn't include FTP access so I'll leave my previously published thoughts there and start afresh here with nutin' but a link between them. I've picked up a new flatmate -

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G'day everyone. A year ago I was travelling around the world & emailing regular updates of what I was doing to anyone I thought might find them interesting, and apparently a lot of people did. A year later and a lot has happened and some people might find what's been happening interesting, so I've decided to do the evil bulk email thing. Please let me know if you don't want to receive these

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Bonjour et salut toute le monde. 1) Arriving in Amsterdam. 2) Staying in Den Haag (the Hague) 3) Taking it easy & getting to Toulouse 4) Catching up with Rebecca 5) Caroline Lovegrove, formerly Williams 6) Le lac 7) The food of kings 8) The train to Toulouse & contacting airlines 9) Narbonne & trying to get on trains 10) Narbonne by night 11) Montpellier to Geneva, contacting

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Hello everybody! [Hello doctor Nick! - OK so I'm a Simpsons fan] Overlapping chronologically with Trip Report VII: 1) Lunch on Thursday the 1/8/02. 2) Egyptians - helpful & safe (but with a few scam artists!). 3) Karnak temple complex, buying water. 4) Luxor temple & those terrible Christian vandals. Back to the more recent past: 5) Friday - time on the 'net & the Luxor Museum. 6) Lunch.

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1) Security. 2) Getting to the museum. 3) Of postcards, water & the Hilton Mall. 4) The Egyptian Museum (Mary, they need your help!) 5) Internet cafes in Cairo. 6) Cairo driving. 7) Getting my train ticket. 8) Arriving in Luxor. 9) Our tour group, van & guide. 10) Valley of the Kings. 11) Hatshepsut's Temple. 12) Valley of the Queens. 13) Luxor - 'hassle capital of Egypt.' Common

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Salamat pagi setiap orang. (Malaysian) Sawat-dii thuk khon khrap. (Thai) Salam alekum. (Arabic) Dag. (Dutch) Bonjour et salut tout le monde. (guess)1) Introduction. 2) Addenda to previous trip reports. 3) Suman's duck feed joke. 4) A vision of drunken Irishmen 5) Shopping for electronic devices. 6) Getting to Sukit's Church. 7) The gospel-my world view. 8) What I want to do with my life. 9)

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1) Introduction to this email. 2) Ayutthaya. 3) Money. 4) Drinks revisited and languages. 5) Royal Barges museum. 6) Rama's death.1) I've included a history of events to do with Rama's death in this email which I am sending to my 'Family' & 'Trip' email address groups, so if you're in both groups you might get this email twice (sorry 'bout that), because some of my family haven't heard what

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G'day everyone. Table of contents: 1) Undercharged by cab driver. 2) Dealing with fear of heights. 3) Burned photos to CD. 4) Weekend, Tara's birthday. 5) What I've been drinking. 6) What I've been eating (Kluang). 7) Sunday night-Monday night. 8) Tuesday-Wednesday. 9) Travel tips, showering. 10) What I'm eating (Bangkok) 11) I love Bangkok. Excerpts from emails: 12) Hands on hips,

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I didn't asterisk phrases giving the sense of each paragraph this time. If anyone actually misses them, let me know. It's the 12th July and I'm listening to the relaxing music of Helen McCrimmon with the soulful sounds of Peter Stacey playing in the background. I've got CDs by Helen McCrimmon, Peter Stacey (his mention above refers to his sax on Helen's CD), David Brinsmead & Ben Fink/King Clam

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G'day everyone. This was written on the 10th July. As before I will surround a word or a phrase in each paragraph in asterisks to make skipping to the bits that interest you easier. One friend suggested I do a web site, but everyone getting this is someone I know and love and I can say things I wouldn't like to put up on a public web site (although I can't think of anything that fits into that

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G'day everybody. I've put some stuff in bold to show what each paragraph is about (the Cairo stuff runs on for 2 long ones) in case you're skimming. 3/7/02 The flight got off to a good start. Mum & me were praying so long before we parked at the airport (40 mins.) that they ran out of economy class seats and bumped me up to business class. It's one of the things I like about mum being around,

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