Hi, my name is Mike McArthur. I’m just me, an ordinary, pretty average sort of guy with plenty of faults. I am 42 years old and for the last 24 of those years have been a Christian. I work at a secular job to pay the bills and provide for my wonderful wife, two daughters and son. We live in a little, crooked, 100-year-old cottage overlooking the harbour in Dunedin, New Zealand and attend a small Baptist church where I preach about once every six weeks.
The foundation of my life is Christ, and this blog is an attempt to discipline my thinking about the all-sufficiency of Christ, a term borrowed from Pastor John Piper, whose ministry has helped me greatly. I do not have any formal theological training, so while I try to stay Biblically centered, I cannot claim to be any sort of authority on Bible interpretation.
My training and work for 20 years was in science, specifically biochemistry with a smattering of pharmacology and microbiology thrown in, as a lab technician at the University of Otago. I then did a stint for a couple of years as a technical writer for a scientific software company. My current job is at the National Poisons Centre where I am a Poisons Information Officer, a challenging and enjoyable role (click here for a 2011 local newspaper article on our work). The Poisons Centre is a free emergency service giving advice on poison related exposures to the public and health professionals. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so my hours of work can be quite strange – something my family finds a bit difficult at times.
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Comments or questions are welcome.
What I see in the mornings
