Hi All. I'm sitting in a coffee lounge in Sri-Lanka on the way to India for a church mission trip. Wireless internet is free and by some amazing stroke of luck I had the right electrical adaptor to plug in my laptop. Coffee here tastes the same as in Autralia which was nice, but its really tea which Sri-lanka is famous for...Ceylon Tea that is. South East Asia is a whole different world to Australia or other western nations. These people need Jesus. I was sitting next to a Malaysian Hindu lady in the airport lounge who was telling me that her family pray to a god called Vishnu and that [she believes] if she is good, she will get reincarnated as a human being again. She said that [she believes] that she shouldn't eat meat because they could be eating a human who was reincarnated as an animal. I feel very sorry for people who have never had the chance to hear the gospel in a way they can understand. The Bible is clear...there is only one way to Heaven....Jesus is the Way, the Tr... more

Allow me to introduce you to Marie Harris, someone who means a great deal to me. Marie normally lives in California, USA and is a unique woman with a great heart for Jesus Christ and is perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative people I have ever met. In recent times I met Marie through some extrodinary circumstances and I give great glory and thanks to God for her friendship and love. You can listen to a song I wrote for her on one of my myspace pages www.myspace.com/ironstoneband. One of the things that impresses me most about Marie is the way in which she represents Christ in her everyday life and shines for him almost without effort. Many people have allowed the circumstances and difficulties of life to affect them, and the often become bitter, negative or pessimistic. Marie has passed the tests that have com... more

To all the mothers in the world we wish you a happy mothers day. Today in particular I want to pay tribute to my Mother, Hazel Alley who has been a remarkable example of life and love and service to Jesus Christ. Well done Mum. The bible says that God made male an female in His image... I think that means that none of us have ALL of His image but each of us have some of His image. As I think about all this I cannot help but wonder if God didn't put His best qualities and characteristics in Mothers. He gave them tenderness, kindnes and a caring heart. When we can recognise and admire these qualities we should also recognise and remember that they came from Him first.

Its a shame but recently I was trying to delete spam coming through my blog contact form and filling up the quota on my hosting account. As I was deleting this content I accidentally deleted about 15 months worth of blogs. My apologies to everyone. However the older blogs are still availalbe from 'blog archives' on the menu link.

John (JB) is a talented musician and songwriter with experience and expertise in many fields from rock and blues through to softer styles of music. Rhys and Josh who play in the band with him are professional musicians and their music is entertaining.

The Music is free for personal use, but for commerical use you will need to contact John. (johnbatley@hotmail.com) You can also use the contact form on this website and I will forward your email on to him.

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