Greatest rock song ever?

Everyone seems to be implanting YouTube videos on their blogs - so why should we be any different? Craig reckons GNR own this mantle, but I (possibly because I'm Christian - but hey, while we're doing what everyone else is doing...) love U2. This is my favourite song, and what I'm hanging to see come November...

Miss Universe in your world

Hats off to Trinity Grammar student Jordan Avramides, who has managed to get Erin McNaught (Miss Universe contestant from Australia 2006) as his year 10 formal date (read here). The amazing thing is that she was his second choice, being extended an invite only after Jennifer Hawkins turned him down!

Now I know a few of our readers are ex-trinity grammar boys, and they are fine, upstanding and gentlemanly types, but even they couldn't have pulled this off. Perhaps young Jordan had some help? After all it seems rather suspicious that only the Telegraph are running the story.

The funniest part of the story is that Jordan already had a date before Miss Mcnaught accepted his invitation and the poor young guy had to take his mother round to effectively dump his old date!

Surely the presence of a supermodel will raise the stakes for the other girls at the formal. As if getting dolled up for the first time wasn't already stressful enough, now they'll have to compete with Versace as opposed to Harts...

My questions however - should he have 'dumped' his old date for a celebrity? Would you have done the same? What should the girl have said to him, when he and his mum arrived?

Rodeo has saved 'on-the-poddy'

And he's done it singlehandedly it seems - listen here. Incidentally, they rate Craig's blog as number 3 in oz - wonder where that puts the fountainside? 1, or 2?

Craig on Richard Beeston

Craig discovers Richard Beeston, and likes what he's found (click here). I think Richard might be visiting some of our WA readers soon?

My Pandora Player

If you haven't got a Pandora account up and running - hop to it. This is without doubt one of the best things i've seen on the net. I haven't put a CD on (except in the car) since I've had it on my computer. Currently I'm listening to 'Daft Punk' radio.

What stations have you made? What's your favourite one?

Lloyd-Jones on context and Scripture

More gold from Mr Lloyd-Jones in my quiet time this morning.

"Nothing, incidentally is more dangerous in reading or interpreting scripture than to take a single statement right out of its context and elaborate a theory or doctrine upon it. That has generally been what has happened in every heresy and in every error in the long history of the Church. It is this fatal habit of men and women of jumping on to texts, as it were, and saying, 'The Bible says this - therefore...' And they forget the context; they forget that Scripture must always be compared with Scripture; that scripture never contradicts itself, and that there is a homogenous collation and unity about the message of the bible from beginning to end."

bible reading - 1 John 5

I came across a quote this morning from Martyn Lloyd Jones that I wanted to share.

"Christian people are not merely a collection of individuals who may hold certain views in common and come together for certain purposes. Not at all! According to the New testament we are to realise we are brothers and sisters; we belong to the same Father; we are partakers of the same divine nature; we have this initmate relationship of blood, as it were, than which nothing can be deeper or stronger. So we must look at one another as brothers and sisters; this is a family relationship. And that, of course, leads in turn to this: we must be concerned about one another; we should be exercising a watchful care and interest in one another; we should have a real concern about one another."

Snow in Annandale!

Well summer's on the back-burner, and it's been hailing/snowing for the last 20 mins! I feel like I'm in europe. I got some photos on my phone - check them out!

Summer is just around the corner...

Today I wore thongs and shorts all day, in an attempt to convince myself that summer is on its way. Winter is good when you're rugged up in bed, or if you can afford to go skiing, but I'm pretty ready for summer to arrive. I'm really looking forward to some summer days at our holiday place at Macmasters Beach. I took this picture last summer while I was staying up there.
My favourite part of summer is walking at night while it's warm and breezy. What's yours?

More dancing from OK, GO

No treadmills this time, but oh so cool. Click here.

Espresso

Lately i've felt like my skills have been waning. Gone are the cafe days of making 500+ cups per day, these days I make 1 or 2, at best 3 or 4 - if I've got a few people coming over to read the Bible. Sadly not many of them are into coffee!
Up until this year, I used to meet with a friend to read the bible and pray every week. We would make gourmet sandwiches, drink 'Australian fresh' juice (the best was apple and mango), and try and outdo each other with our latte art. It was a lot of fun. We used to take photos of our coffees with our phones, so I thought I'd put the best one I ever got a photo of up here.

Treadmill dancing

Strange but true. Click here

New Strongbad

It's like a rainstorm... in your browser. Click here.

How to get a job...

I'm getting very excited about this night! Send me an email to RSVP.

Bible Study

In our bible study tonight, we looked at Ephesians 3:14-21. It's an amazing insight into the prayer life of the apostle Paul. The final sentence struck me most:

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Paul prayed not only that Jesus would be glorified, but that Jesus would be glorified in the church, and in the church throughout all generations. Paul's theology in 3:10 (see a few posts back) is reflected in his prayer in 3:21.
How I want my prayers to be in line with the purposes of God like that.