the Answer!

Wow I got quite a big response to my last blog... people asking me what I worked out about the purpose of marriage... well... here is my answer.... I'm not really sure... but I think it would be cool to meet up and kinda have a discussion and read what the bible says about marriage.
I haven't really been able to think about it much recently because I just came from wkc which stands for Women's Katoomba Convention. It was really great. There were like over 1000 women in a huge tin shed singing and praising God and reading the bible and growing together which is really cool. At first it was really weird singing "And can it be" with no guys to sing the low parts... but it still sounded nice.
I learned so much! And the ironic thing is that I really want to share it with you all now but some of you will be going to WKC next week so I don't wanna spoil it for you. If you aren't going next week... call WKC!!! (www.kcc.org.au). I heard they still have tickets (and some beds) for it. [btw WKC is a christian womens conference where all these women go to katoomba for the weekend and hear God's word being preached by really cool ladies and... oh man it's just all good! If you haven't noticed I really love Katoomba and I plan to live there for a period of my life... or holiday there a lot. It just has this cool vibe and I feel like I can really get away from technology and just sit and study the bible and pray to God. WOOT!]
So I will post next week what I learned. Because we learned the best message that you could ever learn... and you all deserve to know it! Oh gosh I can't help myself:
We need to be reconciled to God. By ourselves... this is impossible! But God sent Jesus to die for us. When we admit our sins and believe in this... God forgives us! We become reconciled to God! God gives us life! We become a new creation... and will be fully restored in heaven. God is so loving and so great!

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort" - 2 Corinthians 1:3

"Whom have I in heaven but you? And being with you there is nothing I desire on earth. My flesh and my heart fail: But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever" - Psalm 73:25
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21

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dating, marriage and divorce.

I just came back from bible study. We were looking at Mark 10:1-12. I think I really needed this bible study. The passage is titled 'divorce' but as my old bible study leader told me... don't take notice of the headings. And it's a good thing too! Otherwise you would all be thinking that I'm interested in divorcing someone which is even weirder since I'm not even married.
What we looked at were the concerns of the people (in this case disciples and pharasees) and also the concerns of Jesus. What the people were interested in when they asked "is it ok to divorce" (paraphrase), was what the law said and how much they can get away with while still following the law. But Jesus looks at the heart... and tries to get them to think about the underlying purpose of marriage. Sometimes when we read the bible we think... "oh it doesn't say we can't do that in the bible so it must be ok to do it." But what is our motivation when we say things like this... we are trying to live our lives our own way while still trying to keep the 'law.' God is interested in our hearts and he wants us to have the same motivation as him when we do things. It brought up tough questions like 'why do we date?' and 'why do we get married... how does this fit into God's original intended plan?' Like I've read stuff about marriage and how it's about love and stuff and that God made man and woman to be companions, etc... but I can't help but think that it's a lot deeper than that... lol I'm prolly too young to understand!
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scream it like you mean it!

yay for trine bean and mushi getting engaged... they are so cute together. i don't know many ppl who have been getting engaged recently... trine and mushi have broken the drought.

love is in the air (doo doo doo, doo doo doo)
love is in the air (doo doo doo, doo woah woah woah, woah woah woah, woahoooo...)
(dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum...)
love is in the air!!!

so what has been up with me lately? well it's all quite sad and depressing... i've been doing uni work all the time, and at the same time... getting hardly any work done. how is that possible? (my philosophical antennae is going buzz buzz buzz).

FIGURED BASS SUCKS BIG TIME ADDITIVE RHYTHM!

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

yes i needed to get that out of my system...
gosh i haven't written in my diary in a while... i should do that now... since i don't feel like writing stuff on my blog.
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p.s: i'm having a mid-life-teen crisis. turning 19 in 3 days (ie 1st sept.)

Arts students

I was reading an article in my uni's student magazine and there was a section on stereotypes I think. Well anyway they were talking about Arts students and how they sit on the lawns all day and work at KFC. I was like O MY GOSH! IT'S TRUE! (because I sit on the lawns and work at KFC). So I handed in my two weeks notice. That's right... I'm leaving KFC.
LOL^ I'm not leaving because of the article. The truth is that my uni work load has increased dramatically. I don't even have time to sit on the lawns anymore! And I decided that this semester I want to practice my violin (and my guitar, and my percussion, and my keyboard, and my sight-singing).
Today I had my first G78 at CTHS. The girls are really sweet and nice. I'm looking forward to reading the bible with them and getting to know their interests, etc. God is so gracious that he has given us his word so that we can study it.
I've just finished preparing for switch tonight. I'm not too wrapped about tonights study. I'm not sure what the main point is. Like there are two big points but not sure what the Big Idea is (kylc people do you follow?).
That's all from me.
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p.s: I wrote this fantasmical entry before about the above events but for some reason the internet was being a pain in my hip and it didn't process it through so you will now have to put up with the bodgy above. I hate the internet! The only thing it is good for is talking to your friends 24/7 without racking up a humongous telephone bill.

Interesting Article

I came across this interesting article.

"It is 97 per cent certain that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead - based on sheer logic and mathematics, not faith - according to Oxford professor Richard Swinburne."


If you like maths (or proofs) you will like it.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16
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Reverend fun

Go to reverendfun.com to check out some really funny cartoons. This one is one of my favourites (Just click on it to see a larger image).
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The Fantastic 4:

1) I had church today. The message was on the parable of the sower. We talked about how it's not a statistic (75% reject the bible and 25% accept it) but it is a reality that many people reject the bible. I thought that it was fantastic that God has revealed himself to me and that I can follow him and receive eternal life.
2) After church today I went to castle towers to watch fantastic 4 with my jnr girls. It was an alright movie. I wouldn't see it twice though. It was fantastic being able to hang out with my girls in a non-bible-study environment and get to know them better (they are are major Harry Potter fans with one of the girls already finished reading the 6th book - ie: read it in one day).
3) I got 4 distinctions for uni! That's a distinction in all of my subjects which I'm feeling fantastic about. One bad thing though is that my dad said: "You can only get better now" and I'm not sure if i can get better... I set the standard too high! LOL!
4) The bible rocks! I've been reading it a lot more lately because conference has inspired me to become more sound in doctrine, and how else to become sound in doctrine than to read my bible and get to know it better! Here is a fantastic passage: Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. -John 2:18-22.
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Feeling full in many ways.

Hey there everyone!
I'm feeling really full at the moment because I had lunch of kfc just 4 hours ago and just had dinner of lasagne which is always filling. I had something interesting that I wanted to share with you all but I've forgotten what it was. How sad for us all. I decided that I won't upload a picture today because I don't want to overload my blog with very cool pictures.... otherwise when I run out of very cool pictures you will all be overly dissappointed. I hope you aren't overly dissappointed now. Emails are good. I just got an email from an old friend. It was a long email, and I replied with a long email. It made me feel good. You guys should try it some time. It's very fulfilling writing a long reply to someone. That's all from me today!
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This entry is a dedication to the pens that I thought I lost but didn't. My crayola "CLICKemON" markers. They were given to me on my 16th (i think) birthday from my very very good friend Jen. I've used them alot. I mainly use them when I write birthday cards amd make wrapping paper. I like them because you can click them together and they are crayola... which means that they have very pretty colours. Recently when I was looking for them, I couldn't find them! This greatly distressed me because it meant that they could be 2 hrs away from me. Luckily they were only 2 mins away from me in my dad's ute. I intend to use them in the future. I love my pens! From Car-O-Line

This is a bit of a sad entry. I'm running low on the happiness because I miss my conference buddies! Conference is the short name for ISCF Leadership Conference. I was leading at it this year. I just love the conference vibe. If you've ever been to a conference you will know what I'm talking about. Anyway the vibe basically encapsulates good bible teaching with great people and God's love. The picture is of my little group (minus Grant the other leader and Dave who left early). From left to right there is Marko-Polo, Haidee, Buffy, Josie, Liz and Pritika. At conference we looked at the book of Titus which was all about leadership. It was really challenging and I'm praying that I will be able to put what I learned into practice. Here is a challenging verse from Titus 2:11-12: For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. From Car-O-Line