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I’ve started preparing a message for Sunday week and I’m looking at the “Parable of the Tenants” in Matt 21:33-46. I’ve usually assumed that the vineyard owner in the parable represented God, but verse 33 has me a little perplexed…
There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a […]

Yesterday saw the official opening of “the Factory” - the community facility provided by the people that make up my church. It’s not a particularly unusual space. A few years ago we sold everything we had to establish a facility to meet more of the needs in our suburb, plus help us to better resource […]

Over the last few years I’ve been trying to build an atmosphere in my community that makes people feel that they don’t have to hide anything to belong. We want to be a community of real, open and honest people wrestling with what it means to be faithful as we struggle with our weakness and […]

How do you feel when somebody breaks a promise they made to you?
How do you feel when it is you that breaks the promise?
They are the two questions we started of with on Sunday night when we looked at Jesus story of the two sons, as part of our series on the Kingdom of God.
In […]

How come, when you’re a boy at school, you hang out with your best friends, walk around with your arms around each others shoulder and share all your deepest secrets, yet when you become a man, real male friendship all but disappears?
Steve Biddulph suggests two things:
1. We’re scared people will think we are gay.
2. Our […]

Just while I’m blogging about cartoony type stuff…
I’ve been asked to submit some cartoons for a high end, glossy, hair and fashion magazine. Good grief - I doubt there is a topic I know less about.
If you knew what I looked like, you’d understand what I mean…

There seems to be very few Australian Christian cartoonists that draw to earn a living. I’m only very part time, but in the last two years have been interviewed by the ABC’s Mondo Thingo television program and the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, purely because I was the only Aussie Christian cartoonist they could track down […]

This article, from the Age Newspaper, gives a perspective on the government’s new industrial relations laws from the executive chairman of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace (reading his credentials, he doesn’t sound like somebody you’d want to mess with!).
Anyway, I thought it was interesting how Wallace says that the new laws will break down […]

Sorry for the delay in posting more of my reflections on Steve Biddulph’s Manhood. Let’s try and finish this thing in the next two or three weeks, eh?
Chapter nine deals with what we men tend to spend most of our time doing – working. And if we were honest, it is probably where we tend […]

We’ve been fortunate over the last few weeks to have several of our young people share the word with us in our gatherings. My only disappointment has been that I’ve missed most of it because of holidays and ministry stuff! But the feedback has been very positive and it reminds me that God speaks to […]