We’re watching the first Iron Man movie and I just realized that Obadiah Stane is responsible for the saving of half the universe.
Really.
And yet everyone is Tony Stark this, Tony Stark that, 3000, 3000, blah, blah.
(Or maybe Ho Yonsin, but not Tony)
(And original Rhodey never got a next time. ðŸ˜)
Since I was going to be in Brisbane for other meetings during the week of July 22, the elders at MGPC decided to send me to as much of the Study Week For Gospel Workers being run by Queensland Theological College.
State of Origin is usually a time when leading clubs slip due to representative players not being available.
But that doesn’t seem to be as much a factor this year, due to both the general inconsistency of most sides and the fact that the lower teams are pretty woeful.
AFL are already in a situation where ten teams are playing for the final eight spots, but it’s hard to envision anything but the seven of the teams currently in the eight making it to finals.
NRL (last round 4/8; season tally 70/116)
Melbourne
Easts
New Zealand
Cronulla
AFL (last round 5/9; season tally 76/126)
Collingwood
Essendon
Richmond
Adelaide
Geelong
West Coast
Melbourne
North Melbourne
Greater Western Sydney
Every time I listen to Mumford and Son’s Sigh No More there are phrases that grip me.
One of them is ‘That’s exactly how this grace thing works’…
It is found in the song Roll Away Your Stone.
You told me that I would find a home
Within the fragile substance of my soul
And I have filled this void with things unreal
And all the while my character it steals
And darkness is a harsh term don’t you think
And yet it dominates the things I see
It seems that all my bridges have been burned
But you say ‘That’s exactly how this grace thing works’
It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart
But the welcome I receive with every start
