http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog … about Jesus: ultimate reality, grace unlimited Sat, 19 May 2012 08:23:41 +0000 en-au hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © by Lance Lawton, 2012 lance@glenbaron.com (Lance Lawton) lance@glenbaron.com (Lance Lawton) 1440 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog 144 144 Lance Lawton's sermons Lance Lawton Lance Lawton lance@glenbaron.com no no http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2012/01/a-bigger-vision/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2012/01/a-bigger-vision/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:38:32 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/?p=934 Australian Marriage Equality convener, Alex Greenwich (The Age, 5/1), needs to listen a little more to religious community concerns on gay marriage. Proposed legislation “assur(ing) churches they would not be forced to marry gay couples” may offer some consolation. (Although … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2012/01/a-bigger-vision/feed/ 0 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/lets-have-a-real-debate/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/lets-have-a-real-debate/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 22:00:15 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/?p=896 The recent publication of Lindsay Tanner’s “Sideshow” has in some sense given us all permission to question the health of politics in Australia, and especially of political coverage by media outlets. Tanner’s very valid concerns have a much wider application, … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/lets-have-a-real-debate/feed/ 3 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/words-and-conspiracies/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/words-and-conspiracies/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 08:09:31 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/words-and-conspiracies/ In a free, democratic and diverse society it’s only to be expected that the place of religious belief in public life will be debated. This is as it should be. However in the interests of balanced and informed dialogue a … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/05/words-and-conspiracies/feed/ 5 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/anyone-for-a-truly-secular-long-weekend-2/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/anyone-for-a-truly-secular-long-weekend-2/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:50:43 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/anyone-for-a-truly-secular-long-weekend-2/ Thanks to 2011′s happy confluence of the lunar cycle, a Christian festival and the Australian calendar, Australians have enjoyed the mother of all long weekends. If the current tsunami of secularist zeal achieves its utopian dream of a land free … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/anyone-for-a-truly-secular-long-weekend-2/feed/ 2 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/be-sure-your-tweets-will-find-you-out/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/be-sure-your-tweets-will-find-you-out/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:21:25 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/be-sure-your-tweets-will-find-you-out/ Before the commentariat, Christian and other, condemns the Australian Christian Lobby’s Jim Wallace as a loony fundamentalist bigot, let’s all take a deep breath and consider … This is the Twitter age, and we’re all still meeting its perils along … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/be-sure-your-tweets-will-find-you-out/feed/ 2 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/the-secular-gospel/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/the-secular-gospel/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:33:22 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/the-secular-gospel/ “A secular approach to religious teachings”, Tina Whittle? (Letters, 5/4) That does sound interesting. Would that be something like a lecture on heart surgery delivered by a plumber? Technorati Tags: education]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/04/the-secular-gospel/feed/ 0 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/01/god-talk-on-facebook/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/01/god-talk-on-facebook/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:55:25 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/?p=861 Some thoughts by one recent Facebook returnee … Facebook has without question become one of the key places where the world hangs out. (e.g. a recent newspaper article reports that a third of the Australian population now has a Facebook … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2011/01/god-talk-on-facebook/feed/ 2 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/separating-fact-from-fiction/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/separating-fact-from-fiction/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:13:07 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/?p=774 Most of those who invoke the doctrine of the “separation of church and state” in political discourse these days evidence little grasp of it’s actual meaning. It’s become a kind of popular Dawkinsian rallying cry for the “new” atheism. Peter … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/separating-fact-from-fiction/feed/ 0 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/to-wit-to-who/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/to-wit-to-who/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:29:10 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/?p=768 I’m trying to decide whether to be more grateful to Greg Craven (Opinion, 4/11) for injecting some balancing wit into current public debate on the merits of theism, or to his respondents (Letters, 5/11) for demonstrating that we Christians are … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/11/to-wit-to-who/feed/ 0 http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/09/choose-your-weapons/ http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/09/choose-your-weapons/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:19:19 +0000 Lance Lawton http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/09/choose-your-weapons/ Apparently Rob Hulls stands guilty of protecting unenlightened disrespect, hatred and religious prejudice in this state. But then again, the undercurrents of this debate reflect a far-from-helpful use of language. A discussion in which only the most negative, emotion-charged vocabulary … Continue reading →]]> http://fullofgraceandtruth.net/blog/2009/09/choose-your-weapons/feed/ 0