About Tim

I'm a Christian, a husband, a worker (for the Australian Public Service), interested in photography, books, music, movies, good food and wine, coffee, and many other wonderful things in life. God has blessed me in many ways - with faith, a lovely wife, two children, great friends, Christian fellowship at Crossroads Christian Church and more widely, a caring family, and so many more things as well. All in all, being found in Christ and with all these great things, I can complain about nothing.

New site

Our old site was looking a little tired and the backend was a little diificult to manage so we’ve just redone it and it now looks like this.
Unfortunatelty, it doesn’t look as good in Internet Explorer as it did in Safari on the Mac, but thems the breaks.

Please give us any feedback about ways you think it could be improved.

The Dark Knight returns

Larissa linked to this on her blog, so I thought I’d give it a try. She got Neo, but I’ve always been more of a Batman fan so this works for me.

You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause.

Batman, the Dark Knight

83%

Neo, the "One"

79%

Maximus

63%

James Bond, Agent 007

63%

The Terminator

58%

Captain Jack Sparrow

58%

El Zorro

58%

Indiana Jones

50%

The Amazing Spider-Man

50%

William Wallace

46%

Lara Croft

46%

Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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Mercy and Justice

I noticed in this article in the SMH that Michelle Leslie, an Australian woman facing charges relating to the possession of ecstacy in Indonesia, made a court appearance today where she said:
“I’d like to ask for mercy and justice from the court”

I would have thought that one could expect justive but hope for mercy, but how do you ask for both? If she is not guilty, then for justice to be done she will be acquitted and has no need for mercy. If she is guilty, then if justice is to be done – she would be punished; but if mercy were to be shown, she would be let go or given a reduced punishment.

Naturally, I thought of the life of a Christian – we trust that God is just and he punishes evil, which really means that everyone in this world deserves a strong punishment. However, we can throw ourselves on the mercy of the court, as it were, and ask for God’s forgiveness – and he is merciful and gives us a way out. See Ephesians 2:4-10