Is "Pride" Really Evil?
There is a common understanding among people that any form of “pride” that manifests itself through a person is unattractive. Pride is a type of characteristic that is frowned upon in our society....
View ArticleThe Importance of Christian Fellowship
I have for a while been pondering on the idea of “church” and why we meet every Sunday (or for my church – every Thursday and Saturday night). I had many questions circulating in my mind about whether...
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Resentment is Self-inflicted
If you are anything like me you’ll understand what it is like to let bitterness fester in your heart for no justifiable reason. I am an introvert by nature and I tend to internalise my emotions. If I...
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Something to Ponder on During Easter
A Manifold ResurrectionWhy the risen Jesus met people in five different ways--and still does.John Witte Jr. | posted 4/05/2007 08:19AMFrom January to April, we live between the times—between Christmas...
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The Wisdom in Contemplating Death
According to Martin Luther, to contemplate death is to prepare oneself for the time of death, but it must be done at the right time - "invite death into our presence when it is still at a distance and...
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Keith Ward Speaks Up For Christianity
I read an article in the New Zealand Listener Magazine about a week ago called In The Name Of God. It is an article where a British philosopher-theologian named Keith Ward (picture right) argues that...
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Quest for Immortality
Lately I have been hearing a lot of chatter about immortality and increasing our lifespan. The above image is an 18th Century Painting and calligraphy from a large format Chinese album illustrating...
View ArticleThe Kyle's Kingdom Will Be Terminated
I have had enough of my kingdom. I have decided to destroy it and begin building the Lords Kingdom instead, not in the form of a blog, however. This means that The Kyle's Kingdom blog will be deleted...
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Am I Too Serious?
I was thinking about why I find it so difficult to write a humorous article. My first conclusion was that I am just not a funny person, which is, to an extent, probably true (I’ll let the people who...
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A Very Sad Attempt
This debate was mentioned at the Think Christian website. It interested me enough that I decided to check it out for myself at YouTube. The result was a rather disappointing one. I was not impressed...
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Blasphemous Entertainment
I found this Street Fighter-style Bible game where you choose a Bible character and fight against another. While this game is entertaining at first, it is pretty borderline blasphemous (in my...
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The Spiritual Aspect of Music
This topic is so huge that it would be impossible to do it justice without exceeding at least 1500 words so I decided that I’m going to just throw out numerous ideas and hopefully get a discussion...
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A Brilliant Cause
In February 2006 at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), Dr. Larry Brilliant raised the issue of pandemic diseases and how we can wipe them off the face of the planet. He calls for global...
View ArticleRandom Thought for Today
"University" is quite an interesting word... is what I thought today, as I was cleaning up after my lunch. University... it sounds like it should be related to the "universe" in some way - university,...
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Hellow again...
Hi guys. Sorry I haven't posted to this blog in a very long time... I have been rather busy lately and it has had to take the back seat for a while.Anyway, lately I have been wondering whether or not...
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Ryan Adams Live at the Bruce Mason Centre
The boys (Brook, Joel and Kieran) and I went on a very exciting road trip to see none other than Ryan Adams himself play with his band The Cardinals in Auckland last night (15th)!!! Matt was originally...
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Returning to My First Love
This is a term that many Christians use when referring to the gaining back of the enthusiasm and excitement that they once felt towards following Jesus. What happens when someone "returns to their...
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Nasty Critique of Emergent/Post-Modern Theology
HT to Sam Harvey for the link to this page.Is it just me or is the "Church Denominations War" getting uglier everyday? It's about time we realised that it is the work of the devil. By keeping the...
View ArticleRyan Adams' Stand-Up Session
Ryan Adams is quite a comedian when he is drunk... on Pepsi Max.
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The Ironic Reality
There is an Ironic reality where, in many cases, the more one gets to know God and begins doing wondrous works in His name for His glory the more one experiences spiritual dryness. Basically, when one...
View ArticleBlog Inspiration Level Declining...
As you can probably already see I am losing motivation to write anything on this blog lately. This is not because I have nothing to write, I am constantly inspired by the things I read. However, I just...
View ArticleHello again...
To those who have been reading my blogs: thanks for the feedback and I hope it has been at least some food for thought.I have been on a huge (2-3 years) break from writing anything on this blog....
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Aren't there many ways to heaven?
I have heard a lot of people ask this question, or have made a claim that "all religions worship the same God, just in a different way," as an attempt to unify all religions. I have also found myself...
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