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I had just gone to the orthodontist’s on Monday and he added in my mouth two springs to attach to the two ‘bolts’ coming out of my gums; and two hooks, one of which to hook a rubber band onto one of the bolts with. For dinner that night, I took off my rubber band to eat and I forgot to get a new one (or put the old one back on) afterwards. Upon realising, I sensed myself saying, “oh it’s okay, it’s just one night I forgot.” But as that thought began to drift through my mind, another voice reminded me of what my Pastor said the other Sunday. He said it takes one month to get a habit going. Regularly, day after day for one month, and that is the best way to set a habit. Someone also said once, it’s the accumulation of time that makes the outcome so effective.

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So I’m sitting here, trying to work out how to allocate accommodation to approx 350 week 1 KYLC people whilst keeping (in order of priority):

1. KCC committee members happy.
2. Delegates happy.
3. My sanity.

Having looked at comments like “1st Pref: CMS with ensuite, 2nd Pref: CMS”, let me do everybody a big favour and tell you that the chance of that request being acknowledged is somewhat slim. KCC committee usually assign accommodation there. Your best chance is to be in the same church as someone that KCC has assigned to lodge at CMS.

This leads to my next point. People from the same church will be kept on the same site if possible. Hence, please don’t bother with comments like “Please keep me with other members of ” because it’s a given, and it just adds noise to the requests.

OK, enough ranting from me. Back to more fun with accommodation…

Hi all,

There were 2 articles in the latest issues of the briefing discussing hillsong church and their doctrines, worship and other things. I found this quite informative. Try and have a read of it and see what you think.

Watch, as Ted Haggard gets owned by Richard Dawkins.

Do you think he got a bit carried away at the end? How do you rate his responses to the questions that Richard was asking? Feel free to discuss.

Edit: Check out this article on SMH for more info about what happened to Ted recently.

In my post last week, I wrote about how Christians can get a bad rap from the media due to its often inaccurate portrayal of Christianity from people who claim to be Christians, but whose actions belie their faith and beliefs. In this post, I’ll examine how hypocrisy amongst Christians affect the public’s view on themselves, and Christianity in general.

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To all you readers out there who are either sitting the HSC, or stressed about upcoming uni exams, or busy finishing off a thesis, here’s a quote for you:

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:25–34 (NIV)

Take heart in knowing that no matter how stressed you are, God’s still looking after you and will provide for you. He knows what you need better than you do.

Yesterday, Alwin, Shu and myself went walkabouts around the south side of the harbour near The Rocks, swinging around Circular Quay to the Sydney Opera House. During most of that time, Alwin and I had our tele’s slapped on and we walked around with our non-subtle lenses. As mentioned in a previous post, my tele lens is big enough to instill fear into the average compact point-and-shoot camera owners and it generally makes you stick out like a sore thumb when you start aiming the beast around.

One thing I noticed was that people have this tendency to think that people with big cameras must be pros and this was illustrated yesterday when Alwin recounted an incident where a sculptor saw his camera and thought he was a professional artist and gave him a business card and chatted about art, etc. People also come up to you and ask you to take photos for them.

By now, you might be wondering what this has anything to do with the title of this post. Well, the spiel above reminded me of an interesting conversation I had last Sunday when I was doing a bit of soloing with my newly acquired behemoth around Milsons Point.

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