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About this time each year, I take some time to put some serious thought and prayer into the sorts of themes that I want to cover in 2007. Some of these are for me personally, others are for my community.
I ask people what they would like to explore, what they think I should be working […]

We had another preaching debut on Sunday night. Joel (the tall guy) stepped up to the microphone, hit his head on the rafters, and then took us through the next part of Romans where Paul talks about all Christians being sent to tell the story of Jesus. (Romans 10)
Rather than second guess what joel was […]

Well, I’m not really.
But I have to speak at a Chinese speaking congregation on Sunday morning through an interpreter.
I’m bad enough in English, who knows what damage I’ll cause in Chinese…

My folks took me on a beach holiday to NSW when I was a kid. Superb beaches, but we couldn’t swim in any of them because of all the jellyfish - I’d never seen so many in my life, I don’t think I have since.
Anyway, as summer approaches, this cartoon came to mind. Anyone pick […]

I wondered this week if I’d done our young people a disservice by teaching them about having quiet times with God.
Don’t misunderstand me here, I don’t think the quiet time is wrong, but in several discussions with young adults that had moved from full time study to full time work, the inability to have that […]

I hope I can be a Dad like this one day…Click Here

Feel free to send this to anybody who you think will be upset by it. I’m seeing if I can start a riot amongst mega-church Christians…

It was a warm day on Sunday, meaning that under the lights on Sunday night was a hot experience. I was feeling sick after trying to fit too much into my week and being in bed most of the day, plus I was in a bad mood after a number of people didn’t do what they […]

Back in this post, a woman named Anne asked the following:
I have a couple of questions for you about Righteousness from God through Faith:
There is a simple command from Jesus Christ to everyone in Matthew 6 that Paul expounded on, primarily in Romans and Galatians, especially his summary in Ro 1:16-21: “But seek ye first His […]

This article by Danny Katz appears in the Age today. A quote:
No, now Religious Education is a serious recruiting business, and the Christian Class is attracting children of all faiths, because they all get a free Freddo Frog at the end of the lesson — it’s like the mass conversions of the Middle Ages, but […]