Here’s the sign I mentioned yesterday.
I just love it.
UPDATE: The sign has now been there for around a week, which means that not only is the time of the accident in doubt, so is the particular Saturday in question.
According to a recent article it seems that the 11th Commandment has been handed down by the Methodist Church in Britain.
The new commandment is: “Thou shalt not worship false pop idols”.
It’s all part of a competition set up by the church and the Ship of Fools website.
The church, together with Christian website shipoffools.com, left details of the competition on beer mats in pubs around the nation, inviting drinkers to text suggestions for an 11th commandment.
“The idea was to get people, especially those in their 20s and 30s, thinking about the commandments and to prompt a debate about ethics,” said Simon Jenkins, editor of shipoffools.com, who sifted through the 2000 entries.
Check out the article for a few more of the entries.
You’ve no doubt heard the ongoing saga of ‘did he’ or ‘did he not’ with David Beckham and his wife Victoria.
I logged on to a news website during my lunchbreak today to see one of the headlines saying, “Crying Posh slaps Becks.”
I resisted the urge to click on the link and go find out the latest in the story. Why? because it’s none of my business. It’s none of your business either which is why I’m not saying where the story is.
We’ll obviously be force fed the details on radio or TV later but I refuse to go searching after details that should remain the personal business of those involved.
Sure they’ve both sought publicity in the past to enhance their careers, but that doesn’t give us license to intrude.
I have friends who have had troubled marriages and some have even broken up. I have been naturally curious to find out what’s going on but I haven’t pried because that is not my place. Some have spoken to me about their troubles and some haven’t. I’ve helped when I could. I know that with a couple of loaded questions to the right people I could have had all the juicy details but that wouldn’t make it right.
While Posh and Becks are celebrities, they are also people. People like you and me who hurt when their world starts to crumble around them. We have no right to gain some kind of perverted pleasure by delving into their private lives.
It’s Larry Norman’s birthday today. I’ve been a fan for years so I shot off an email to him this morning.
I went to my first Larry Norman concert at the Perth Concert Hall when I was about 15. (Around 25 years ago.)
If you’re not familiar with his music …. you’re missing out.
He is generally known as the founder of Jesus Rock.
Larry’s been through some tough times over the years and his health is not good these days. You can find out more about that on his website.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I’d caught up with a good friend of mine.
Lance is a pretty courageous bloke because he’s dealing with issues that a lot of Christians would prefer to sweep under the carpet. While he has found that there’s not many exisiting ministries equipped to understand his situation or offer help, he continues seeking personal change and healing.
He has set up his own internet radio station on a free site. It’s just a taste of what he hopes to create in the future. At the moment it is a string of well chosen songs. In future it’ll sound a lot more like ‘the real thing.’
He eventually wants to set up a number of net radio stations targeting people with specific life issues such as homosexuality, addictions, depression etc. He wants to create something for all those people who don’t fit the current Christian radio approach.
As someone who has found music to have an incredible potential to speak to the heart, I think it’s a great idea.
Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.
He previously worked in radio for about 25 years but these days he spends his time at Compassion Australia, working towards releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.
The views he expresses here are his own.
