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About Me


LIAM BANTOCK
A guy living out his life of discipleship in Footscray while following the Melbourne Victory.

A prophetic voice?

Just watched an interesting video discussing Jesus’ role as a prophet. It then flowed on to how Christians should stand up for justice. I loved the description of a cartoon that was told. In the cartoon there was a person praying, “Jesus thanks so much for coming into my life, but did you have to [...]

A Budget from the margins

Last night Wayne Swan delivered his second budget. Now I don’t want to comment specifically on the details of that budget, but it would be remiss of me not to take the opportunity to remain topical. I believe that one of the many (and perhaps main) roles of Government is to provide for the disadvantaged [...]

A life simulator?

I got a new computer a couple of weeks back and with it I bought X-Plane. X-Plane is a very good flight simulator. Ever since I got it I have been trying to find time to sit down and practice my flying skills. For someone who has a passing interest in flying but will never [...]

A couple of resources

Just a short post today to mention a couple of resources that I have found really helpful recently. The first is Living the Questions. Although it is expensive to buy outright (we have borrowed our copy) it is a great resource that I am considering purchasing. It is a set of DVDs that is split [...]

A clash of cultures?

I have just finished preparing a part of tomorrow nights dinner (am I organised or what?) and while doing that I was pondering how food tells us a lot about a culture. For lunch today I had a beautiful kebab (Turkey), my preparation was getting together the marinade for Tandoori Chicken (India) and tonight I [...]