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Boys will be boys ……hmm maybe!

Boys will be boys ……hmm maybe!

The statement ‘Boys Will be Boys’ implies that some slack needs to be cut when judging male risk-taking behaviour. You know, the playful, no-harm-done stuff, like racing motor bikes, playing footy, climbing trees, jumping off ropes into rivers, falling off skateboards and the many other acts of bravado that blokes like to do, which sometimes lands them in the hospital emergency ward on Saturday arvo..

  • Sin isn’t so bad?

    One of the greatest revelations for me was the moment I realised what I was saved from when I became a Christian, but it wasn’t until much later in my walk when I realised the impact of sin on creation and my own life.

  • Comparison: The corruption of good character

    Role models are so important in our lives. My parents and my grandparents are some of those role models who I aspire to model my life off every day.

  • The Lord is close to the broken-hearted

    "The Lord is close to the broken-hearted," sings the psalmist in Psalm chapter 34, verse 18.

  • When I found the missing piece to success

    Sometime ago, I started mulling over the meaning of success.

  • Time for Transition

    As believers when we turn to Jesus when born again and commit to surrender our lives totally most of the times do we really fathom what this entails? The words that most often come in our worship that God may use as He pleases, are we really ready to surrender and give Him total control?

  • God the master of time

    One thing that God has impressed upon me lately is how amazing he is in his sovereignty. This has gone from a dry theological concept to something living and mighty in my life.

  • Finding a loving God in the violent parts of the Old Testament

    There is no denying that there are some unsettling passages in the Old Testament. I remember the first time I read Psalm chapter 137, verse 9, where the psalmist calls the one who dashes the babies of Babylon against the rocks blessed.

  • Born for adventure

    One of my earliest childhood memories is of playing in my own sandpit. I used to spend hours playing in the sand, shifting it around with my toy trucks, building sandcastles, mountains and tunnels for my toys. My dad made it for me in our backyard and I got a lot of joy out of it as a boy.

  • The Mark van Rossen Story

    At a church event held in the Adelaide Hills in 1999, an old Wycliffe Australia missionary stood up the front of the room and said, ‘It does not matter what you do, we can use you in the work of Bible Translation’. 

  • A Different Spectacle, Sport As Theatre

    In my article last week I asked and answered the question “Is Sport Work?”. The answer was that Sport is work but not Work as making a table, a house, a garden. The product that occurs from the work that is Sport requires an audience. Not a user like a table or a reader to a book. But like a performance, like theatre.

  • Christians must judge!

    Elections are in the air! And globally millions of Christians will be going to the polls after judging one candidate against another. Discriminating between two or more candidates is more than a muscle to be exercised every four years though.