Monthly Archives: March 2009

Evangelism Spam

By Geoff | Published 27 March, 2009 4:21 pm

Got an email this morning with the following subject: Top names in male improvement sold at discount prices I was a little impressed at the effort they’d gone to in order to avoid the trusty GMail spam filter. Was less impressed that it succeeded, but it did give me a cause to think. It seems [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-26

By Geoff | Published 26 March, 2009 5:00 pm

wondering if it was a good idea to watch a west wing when I got home last night: pretty tired today. # almost out the door and the stupid system breaks. Still at work # All full and happy from breakfast with @hdcoffeeboy. Beautiful day outside but I don’t have a good way to use [...]

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More Biblical than the Bible

By Geoff | Published 26 March, 2009 2:02 pm

Scot McKnight (there’s no better God-blogger) has attacked the idea that we should go further to be purer in our “sin-avoidance” attempts, specifically with respect to alcohol: “What I find every year in this conversation is a serious, but repeated mistake. The tack is this: If I take a stand more “biblical than the Bible,” [...]

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Moses wrote you this law

By Geoff | Published 25 March, 2009 3:45 pm

Just stumbled across this verse, and I’m wondering if there is implications for how we read the law books of the Old Testament: It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. Mark 10:5 (NIV) – emphasis mine I have no opinion (yet), but I wondered if this verse [...]

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Alcopopulists

By Geoff | Published 20 March, 2009 3:02 pm

It’s been an interesting week in Australian politics (if that sounds impossible, you might as well quit now), and most of the interest (in spite of the significant happenings in the global economic climate) has been in the debate around the Federal Government’s “Alcopops” Tax. Here’s a rundown on the events, with cute little analogies [...]

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