From: Rüdiger Koch (rkoch@rkoch.org)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 01:45:27 MDT
Very spicy. Mix it with tomato juice, Wodka, Worcestershire sauce and the
juice of a lemon and drink it at the end of a long party ;)
-Rudiger
On Saturday 13 April 2002 03:26, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Good grief. I found this sermon on line:
>
> ===============
>
> From: Rowland Croucher (rcroucher@optushome.com.au)
> Subject: Preeminence of Jesus
> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian, aus.religion
> Date: 2002-02-13 14:20:09 PST
>
> Shalom! Rowland Croucher
> http://www.pastornet.net.au/jmm
>
> ~~~
>
> Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 2-031 (Sermon - Expository)
>
> THE PRE-EMINENCE OF JESUS (Hebrews 1:5-14)
>
> by Rod Benson
>
> Novelist Damien Broderick is credited with coining the term
> 'virtual reality' in 1975. Writing in the September 1998 issue of
> Eureka Street about what he terms our "nanotechnological" future,
> Broderick speaks of "the Spike" (something like a J-curve in
> economics).
>
> "The accelerating trends in computer science, trends converging
> somewhere between 2030 and 2100 to form a barrier of technological
> novelties blocking the future from us . . . We can only guess,"
> says Broderick, "at what lies ahead of us, up the Spike's slope."
>
> In the final paragraph of his article he reminds us that the future
> is a journey we've already long since commenced. "The Spike, you
> see, isn't really some incredible Apocalypse hovering dimly in the
> remote future," he says. "It is the curving gradient which we
> already climb, day after day, into an ever-more exotic future.
> Start getting ready for it."
>
> As with all change, we have three options. We may pretend nothing
> is happening and live in perpetual denial; we may flee to the hills
> and live in secluded bliss; or we may grin and bear it, cushioning
> the negative impact of this global social and cultural
> transformation, and adapting to the new variables in our world.
>
> People who choose the third option will do so in various ways.
> Some will use New Age tools; others will soldier on within a
> modernist worldview.
>
> But there are others who will, with spiritual and historic insight,
> recognise that their best hope for a smooth ride up the Spike's
> slope is to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ, and build a
> lifestyle based on his teaching and example.
>
> Why? Because Jesus Christ is, as the author of Hebrews points out,
> "the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
>
> WHO IS JESUS?
>
> Jesus is the creator, sustainer, redeemer and end of history and
> humanity. He is the one reliable constant and indomitable reality
> in a galaxy of uncertainty and vulnerability.
>
> If you're looking for meaning in a meaningless world, look no
> further than Christ. If you're searching for an effective value
> system, look no further than his teachings. If you're seeking help
> to live in a changing world, choose Christ.
>
> <snip and not a moment too soon >
> --------------------
>
> E071 Copyright (c) 2002 Rod Benson.
>
> You can contact Rev Rod Benson by e-mail at <RodBenson@bigpond.com>
>
> ==============================
>
> Or not.
>
> Damien Broderick
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