Monthly Archives: July 2006

Has “Gospel” outlived its usefulness?

By Geoff | Published 31 July, 2006 10:18 pm

It’s alright. Don’t over-react. I haven’t changed sides. It’s just that a passing comment from Rob in the sermon yesterday triggered something in my wee little brain. In explaining the concept of “the gospel” as it appears in Romans 1, he pointed out that Gospel was a commonly used term – meaning good news (roughly). [...]

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Round 17 – If you don’t have anything nice to say…

By Geoff | Published 31 July, 2006 12:16 pm

…don’t say anything at all.
St. Kilda 27.12 (174)
def.
Richmond 10.11 (71)

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Sovereignty, omniscience and the big plan – part II

By Geoff | Published 30 July, 2006 8:34 pm

Conrad brought up a very valid point in the comments for the previous post, and one that you’ve gotta start thinking about in dealing with this stuff – “it brings up the question of sovereignty and omniscience”. Indeed it does, and in tackling these kind of theological posers you are forced to resort back to [...]

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The Big Plan

By Geoff | Published 29 July, 2006 12:32 pm

The posts this week have been thin on the ground – I think I’ve started about 8 and got about halfway through before realising that I hadn’t worked enough out to put proper sentences together. But one of the things that has been milling around in my head since hearing an off-the-cuff comment made by [...]

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Feeling Useless

By Geoff | Published 26 July, 2006 7:05 pm

There are few things I struggle with more than the feeling of helplessness. Put me in a frightening situation, and as long as I’ve got some part to play, something to keep my mind on, to make me feel like I can do something about it, then I can keep it all together. But it’s [...]

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