Footy Tipping 2019 – NRL Round 25 / AFL Quarter/Elimination Finals

Gary Ware

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September 5, 2019

Finals begin this weekend in the AFL. I’m tipping Brisbane, without conviction. I do expect them to make one of the preliminary finals, though.
The NRL season finally grinds to a halt this weekend. Eighth spot is up for grabs. It’s a bit hard to know whether watching Paul Gallen or Robbie Farrah get a chance at one last final is more appealing. Both have been tremendous servants of their sport.

NRL (last round 7/8; season tally 118/184)
Easts
Manly
Melbourne
Canberra
Brisbane
Saint George
Wests
Penrith

AFL (last round 7/9; season tally 125/198)
Geelong
West Coast
Western Bulldogs
Brisbane

The VelociPastor

Gary Ware

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September 5, 2019

Some of you will be interested to know that a very, very, very low budget movie called VelociPastor exists.
The plot summary:
“After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.”
Yep, a priest who becomes a were-dinosaur and fights evil.
Originally a film-student project trailer, it became a micro-budget movie.
The director originally had thoughts of it being some sort of commentary about the Catholic Church, but eventually dropped those pretensions, arriving at the the rationale that
“The movie is made to be fun, and anybody looking for deeper meaning in the man-turns-into-a-dinosaur genre is probably on a fool’s errand.”
Probably.

I have no intention of watching it, and you probably know if you have an interest in this sort of thing.
If you don’t, then don’t watch the trailer below.

Most pastors do not openly fantasise about becoming dinosaurs and killing problem people, if you were worried.

Hymn To The Kindness Of God by Michael Card

Gary Ware

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September 4, 2019

Hymn To The Kindness Of God is a track on Michael Card’s album To The Kindness Of God.

Learning To Number Our Days (via Michael Kelley)

Gary Ware

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September 4, 2019

Michael Kelley writes a four point reflection on the phrase from the Psalms ‘teach us to number our days.’
Why?

We naturally assume that there will always be tomorrow – that there will always be another chance for this or that. We become procrastinators in our arrogance, assuming that the limited number of days we have on this earth will never come to an end. Because we drift toward this kind of arrogance in which we are the charters of our own destiny, we need God’s help to have a true gauge of our own mortality.
This is the point James made in James 4, a chapter diagnosing the disease of pride, when he reminded us all that we should be careful about assuming on the time-table of our lives. Even in things like planning trips, meetings, and anything else, we would do well to remember that “you don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes” (James 4:14).

Read the whole post at Forward Progress.

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