Tom is a Christian, husband and father of 5 children. He works at Reformers Bookshop and is on the board of Emmanuel College Sydney, a protestant liberal arts college. Tom lives in the South West of Sydney in Smithfield and is an elder at Smithfield Baptist Church. www.reformers.com.au www.emmanuelcollegesydney.com.au
“The existence of God is assumed from the very beginning. This makes sense when you realise that the Bible is God’s word to us. Whenever I start speaking to someone, oddly enough I never feel compelled to prove my own existence.”
“Our default is to imitate our parents. We imitate them in the good and in the bad. And unfortunately, often where we see our parents’ faults, we reverse-imitate them and end up doing what they did in the opposite direction.”
“If every Christian was to do what they are supposed to do, we would stop abortion tomorrow. No more babies would be killed.”
“Power does not corrupt. Power is not the source of corruption.”
“When God made bread, he made it knowing that Jesus would be the bread of life and that we would use bread to remind us of Christ in the Lord’s Supper for millennia. Bread wasn’t a mistake.”
“When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human.”
“I am genuinely surprised at how far we have been willing to go to obey the government and I think it is critical to ask the question: ‘At which point will I disobey?'”
These days dads are typically portrayed as dumb. Think Homer Simpson (doh!) or Daddy Pig or Raymond.
