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If you'd like to hear Wally's report from GAFCON, it's here as you can see, on the front page. However Pete's wonderful sermon on Hebrews 1:1-4 can only be found by using the 'find sermon feature' .. and I recommend that you use it until I find a way of putting this Report here under St. John's news.
20 Jul 2008 by Rosemary
Two more pictures
Finally we can see that yes, Wally WAS there. This is his small group during Gafcon. And here is the whole Kiwi contingent.
05 Jul 2008 by Rosemary
Gafcon photo's
Jay's in this picture! Can't spot him? Then try this Actually that's Wally to the left of Jay, not that you'd know it. In fact Wally is in the first one, so if you find Jay, you could move right a bit and see the side and shoulder of Wally .. chuckle. This is a maze of Where's Wally pictures isn't it. [I haven't spotted anyone I know in that photo, but let me know if you do. Perhaps this is the best one .. and that's just the Bishops!!!
25 Jun 2008 by Rosemary
Apologies
YEA .. all seven sermons that previously didn't work are now there with the link corrected. They all had to be uploaded all over again, but that problem is now sorted, lets hope there are no more!
Anyway, I'm now one sermon behind which I'll get up as soon as I can.
The 'boys' behind the scenes have had to deal with many problems, including blackouts that undid a lot of good work .. so thanks to Safi/Jethost for your care for us.
God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in our world quite realise what it will be like when He does. When that happens, it is the end of the world. When the author walks onto the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right, but what is the good of saying you're on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else--something it never entered your head to conceive--comes crashing in; something so beautiful to us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistible love, or irresistible horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down, when it's become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing; it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realize it or not. Now, today, in this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever; we must take it or leave it.
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book II, Chapter 5