490 years since Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the door in Wittenberg.
Here’s Luther’s famous song “A Mighty Fortress is our God”
A mighty fortress is our God
A bulwark never failing
Our helper he amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe
Does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
And armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not His equal.
Did we in our own strength confide,
Our striving would be losing,
Were not the right man on our side,
The Man of God’s own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
The Lord of Hosts, His Name-
From age to age the same,
And he must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled,
Should threaten to undo us.
We will not fear, for God has willed
His truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
We tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
we know his doom is sure,
the Word of God shall fell him.
That Word above all earthly pow’rs,
No thanks to them, is standing;
The Spirit and His gift is ours-
We answer His commanding.
Let goods and kindred go,
This mortal life also;
The body that may kill;
God’s truth is ruling still-
His Kingdom is forever!
Amen!
The only words one can use when describing the results in the Rugby last weekend. I’m quite willing to admit that Australia hasn’t looked like a serious contender in the last year or two, but England has looked much worse. To go down in a similar fashion to the 2003 world cup is just horrible. Still, Australia losing was conceivable. What amazes me was New Zealand choking against France!
While I lived the dream that it would be the Aussies winning the world cup, if you looked at their form over the last 2 or 3 years, you’d say there is little chance it could be anyone other than the All Blacks winning the cup! I didn’t get to see the game, and I am not sure I want to.
To top it off, the Springboks almost got done in by the Fijians. I decided to watch the first 10 minutes of this game and ended up staying there for the whole thing. It was awesome to see such a little nation schooling the big boys for so much of the game. It was one held-up try that kept the momentum from taking the fijians all the way.
On the other hand, it is good to have a Southern Hemisphere super-power still in the running. SA should account for Argentina, then it doesn’t matter who they meet in the final. Hopefully the cup will come back to the right side of the globe!
Other news? I guess there isn’t much. Still sorting out work for next year. I think we have it sorted, but you will have to wait till next monday to hear the result. Had a meeting for a wedding shoot in December. I need to get my head around a wedding shoot that I have this weekend too. Lots of stuff on!
So there you go. I still have these assignments hanging over my head, so I better see to them.
I really don’t know what happened.
It’s not like I have any negative feelings toward it or anything.
I just haven’t been blogging.
I guess you can hit a patch where it becomes “just another thing you have to get done” and then it slows down.
It’s been the same with the camera. I haven’t pulled it out anywhere as much as I would have liked to. I think it will just be a matter of getting back into the swing of things.
I’m on holidays at the moment, so that should mean that I have more time for such stuff, but so far that is not proving to be the case. I am trying to get a couple of assignments done, and I have a sermon to prepare for 10 days time too, so it is all going on!
There is lots of other little stuff happening too (some not so little). I have been to a number of different job interviews over the last couple of weeks. There are no end to the awesome opportunities out there, so the holidays are also the opportunity for Shona & I to pray about stuff, think about stuff & make some of the big decisions about what we are going to do over the next little while, as well as waiting for the interview panels to make up their mind about whether their plans happen to coincide with our ideas.
So there you go. I am knee-deep in the Anabaptist “Radical Reformation”, I’m thinking a little less about creating an evangelism tool, I need to knuckle down & work through Matthew 18 (and decide how much of it I want to preach on) and at the same time, I should probably clear head space for Shona & my future.
Don’t worry though, I am hoping to get back on track with tg.com too.