Song I have writen, for you to listen

I like to write songs, you can find recording of some of the tracks I have written at the following Triple J unearthed links. Please listen or even down load them. Even If you hate them it would be good If you could give them a rating on the unearth web page. Any feed back is good feed back.

http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12531

http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12508

http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=14997

Coburg get up by 1

Well it was no holes bared, play-by-play, keep your eyes on the field and what every you do don’t blink action on Saturday, as the greens took on Coburg, in a great battle for the silver rung of the ladder. The greens emptied the cards from their sleeves as they tenaciously attached, their star forward quarantined to the sidelines. Did the match make him want to elbow someone in the face? My guess would be yes. Unfortunately, the greens efforts were in vain, and Coburg scraped through with a one to nil victory.
Two games remain in the fixture season, and neither of them can be considered in any type of bag. Both our opponents sit below us on the ladder, but they are both still finals contenders, and will be looking for late season points to get them over the line. Next week we play St-Albans. At our last contest we crushed them 4-1. Our new look forward line however, may make for a slightly closer result this time round. Judging by our honourable performance against Coburg, I am still confident of a repeat victory. We will finish the season with another grudge match against ‘The Southern Star’. At our last face off, they came away with a lucky 1-0 victory.

Romans 12:1

This is a verse I often hear abbreviated and miss represented, so I thought I’d put my opinion on the subject out there.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

God considers our complete surrender as a living sacrifice as "Reasonable service". That is to say a general requirement for anyone who wishes to follow Christ.

We often here people make statements that say full surrender to God allows him to do powerful things in our lives.

Although I do not disagree with the above statement, I propose this, that anything less than our daily attempt at full submission to God is not Christianity at all. Anything more is impossible.

Some versions translate this verse to say, "This is your spiritual act of worship" and not "reasonable service". If you follow through a pretty basic thought progression about worship, you will soon see that in this instance, these statements mean basically the same thing.

With this in mind, it is important to note that this verse also starts by saying this can only be done "by the mercies of God". This point is also commonly missed, however, when you interpret the rest of the verse as I do, it becomes vital information, as we could never achieve these requirements on our own.

Thus, Christianity becomes the strive for perfect submission to God, but only through his own mercy and power.

Wow! Now that's a crazy powerful verse.

This is the truth that I feel is lost when this verse in not fully quoted.

A by-product of this interpretation is that it creates a clearly defined, black and white idea of what Christianity is, without invoking a whole range of rules and regulations. This creates a situation where God can easily divide the sheep from the goats as it were, without creating the legal mess Christ died to save us from in the first place.

How often do you see the whole Christian experience summed up in three lines? Answer me that! Interesting that it's a statement which compels actions and not ideas no?

Retirment

It has been my life long plan to retire with a leather recliner and a massive collection of jazz vinyls, and then live out my days kicking back, drinking scotch in a slow thought-provoking manner. Then my grandchildren will come and visit me, sit on my lap and I will dispense grandfatherly wisdom from my chair.

It is the dream of retirement that stops me ever feeling old. Every year brings me one step closer to the goal.

You to should dream of retirement. It brings extra meaning and purpose to every day.

Comets are destroyed of they burn through the greens outer atmosphere

I think everyone present at the Bentleigh V Comets variety hour this week would have to agree that it was a testament to sports and athletics everywhere. After an afternoon filled with Greens dominated play, Bentleigh came away with a pleasing 3 to 1 result, a score highly indicative of the game that had unfolded before us. Playing back on home soil, the greens looked comfortable, with a well-grounded defensive line, and many of their goals scored of strong assists. The sole moment of Cometary victory came late in the game, when a greens victory was inevitable, and player minds were most likely side tracked by the celebratory rotating meat that was to come.
So here we are at last. Standing at the door of destiny. Ready and willing to knock. Confident, but respectful of what lies inside. Next week the greens will once more meet Coburg. They are the number three to our number two. They are the shadow that goes before us as we walk from the sun, and tails us only when we walk toward its majestic solar glory.
This game will decide who follow the pines into the finals first class sleeper carriage for two, and who will slog it out in coach all the way to the checked flag. The comets have the home ground advantage, but the greens excel on grass, and have a stong history agaist them, beating them 2-1 at our last encounter, even when we couldn't seam to beat anyone else. It should be a good match.

Warriors hang on for a luck draw

In a weekend that saw lavish scoring across the division, Bentleigh have once more missed victory by a rabbits short hair, finishing their game against North Geelong with a two all draw. The warriors have not as whole performed well this season, so going into the match the greens were confident on a solid victory and the point to boot. Unfortunately, conditions were not favourable, and, when I say conditions, I actually mean linesmen, and when I say favourable, I actually mean able to make able to tell the difference between white line and green grass. Some dubious yellow cards after an even more dubious goal put the greens at an instant disadvantage. A second goal even luckier than the first put Geelong up two nil within the first twenty minutes. Playing one man down, the green were still able to dominate the rest of the match and quickly brought the scores back to Stevens. Although many opportunities were created, the greens were unable to convert a third play, and were forced to split the points.
Next weeks match is against the Casey Comets, a team not exactly known for lighting up the nights sky with a blaze of heavenly glory. This means it should be another safe opportunity for the greens to pick up some valuable late in the season points.

Urban Pirates

Piracy in the outer suburbs of town this winter season, has reached the highest levels on record, making racketeering the now largest percent of crime in town. This title has traditionally been held by J walking, however a decrease in literacy has meant that many would be J walkers, have been unable to develop the required skills for this sordid profession. Many city officials have allegedly announced the piracy epidemic to be of plague proportion, to the degree such that the power of current legislation will be unable to knock the wind from the pirate’s sales. This in turn has prompted many calls from community groups, demanding policy reform powerful enough to keep up with the current swordplay. Some have even suggested legislation as strong as the legendary swash and buckle act of 1785 may be in order, if we are to adequately deal with the current body of scurvy naves, walking the streets. Police have warned that if anyone sees either a pirate, or what they believe to be a significantly un-kept sailor, they should by no means try to either approach or feed the individual in question, as they may bite. Urban pirates can be easily spotted, as they will generally have one wooden leg, one moccasin, a shirt of frilly and feminine nature, as well as an eye patch, most likely not of a medically prescripted nature. Be especially careful when heading to the horizon, as Pirates arrrr particularly common in this direction.

The Southern Cross's favourite son's

It is very important that you go straight to the Triple J unearthed web site and down load all songs by a band called
'The Southern Cross's favourite son's',
and then rate all the songs with full scores, 100% good. Then get everyone you know to do the same. This is kind of like a chain letter only for Rock!

You can download at:
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/View.aspx?artistid=12508

People, It's time to use and abuse democracy and it's something we have to do together.

It's Rock, It's good for you.

Transformers

I saw Transformers for the first time last night.
It was awesome.
Just enough plot and story to give the whole thing a setting, and then straight to the action and robots. Cool.

Quote of the night:

"Star Scream, You Fail me again!"
Megatron

This was one for the real Transformer fans and it certainly wasn't lost on me.

I say again, cool.

Greens throw a match at the pines, no sparks.

Due to issues with the Soccer Victoria Web page, validated data on this weeks game results is still hazy. Early reports have however sited a one all draw between the ladders one and two, Frankston and Bentleigh. Frankston came out with all the freshness we have come to expect from the pines. Bentleigh’s new Coach of three weeks hit the match lacking experience with the club, but seamed by all accounts as green as anyone, and has certainly inspired some new growth from the greens side.
Scores were locked by the half time whistle, and no number of orange quarters had the rejuvenating power to influence another goal for either end of the park.
I believe a Bentleigh under 11s player did manage to
place a powerful drive to the top corner of on old ladies head during a non-league accredited friendly in the car park, however those rumours are also yet to be confirmed.
Unfortunate wins to both Coburg and Langwarin this week have left the Greens in Fourth place on the Ladder. As these two teams will be playing each other next round, an easy victory over the G town once we were Worriors this week will return The greens to third. so not too much damage done.

Bad new about bank day

It turns out that only people who work in banks get bank day off, not the people who get screwed by them. Trust banks to set up a hioliday which they and they alone can reep the benifits from. Very disapointing banks of Australia, Very poor form.

Bank Day

Next Monday, we will be celebrating Bank day, A public holiday in the honour of Banks.
Out of all the things to celebrate or support in this world, we have bank day, a celebration of modern finance. I think we have to pay a minute of silent respect to all the bank fees payed nationally for no apparent reason, and then a further minute in respect of pyramid ventures.
Maybe the holiday is actually to morn the loss of all those regional branches. Heartlessly massacred in battle against Internet based accounts and transactions.

I believe I will spend my Bank day putting cash under my mattress and I encourage everyone else to do the same.