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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.

Who shot first?

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Well, it’s apparently official that the DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy will be coming out this year.
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/dvd-video/archive/2004/02_10.html

Unfortunately, George Lucas does not want to release the original versions of the trilogy (the ones that those in my generation grew up on) as he considers the Special Editions to be the definitive editions, the movies he always wanted to make. This quote was the most pertient:
“But this is not a democracy. We love our fans, but this is about art and filmmaking. [George] has decided that the sole version he wants available is this one [the 1997 Special Edition].”

Personally, I like this take on it:

Greedo was murdered

New baby (not ours)

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Our good friends Andrei and Vanessa Cheng had a baby last week. Born at 1:27am on Friday 31 January was Laura Marie Cheng. Here are the other vital stats:

Weight: 3.35kg
Height/length: 50.5cm
Hair: dark brown (and lots of it, for a baby)
Eyes: dark blue (this is the same for all newly borns, or so I’m told)
Nose: Vanessa’s
Cheeks: Andrei’s

Here’s a couple of images I took with the digital camera on my phone when we visited them in the hospital (I never wanted one of those type of phones, but now that I have one I’ve discovered that it’s quite useful):

Andrei, Vanessa and Laura Vanessa holding Laura

Both parents are doing well and expected Vanessa to be back home on Tuesday (yesterday).

CMS Summer School

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We’re up at CMS Summer School in Katoomba this week. It’ currently Wednesday afternoon and we’re on our afternoon break. This has probably been the best conference I’ve been on since EU Annual Conferences during uni. We’ve heard Don Carson speak on 1 Peter, whichhsa been great – the overall theme has been, essentially, holiness. The talks over the last couple of days have primarily concerned suffering and specific outworkings of holiness. It’s been good.

Apart from that, the best things have been catching up with people that I haven’t seen since uni and finding out what we’ve been up to, especially ministry-wise, and hearing from a number of missionaries about their experiences, challenges and work in a number of countries around the world. This has included hearing about their experiences related to some specific topics, such as Economic Rationalim, using their homes for hospitality and ministry and the work of spouses wihout an ‘official’ job description.

We’re looking foward still to the next few days and we’ll write more when we get back to Canberra.

Oh yeah – and we had a good time over Christmas and New Years as well.