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Sunday night for us was a little bit sad. Not as sad as it will be next Sunday night, but a little bit sad nonetheless.
It wasn’t that the service was bad. Infact it was pretty good. Our gathered worship was well planned and a bit different to the norm.
Dan spoke and he was also really […]

Our environment has been in the news a lot recently with the passing of Steve Irwin. And after listening to his daughter Bindi give a tribute at his memorial service my guess is that it will have a much higher profile in the coming months and years. The planet is fragile and the life it sustains […]

We were fortunate on Sunday night to have Sarah Coates from Youth Dimension share a little about life and faith. I’d not met or even heard Sarah before, so I must confess to being a little nervous…but my concerns were unfounded and she was great!
Sarah stated that life is not a game. In a game […]

I did something last Sunday that is always risky in an Australian church.
I let a Pom give the message.
Not that there is anything inherrantly evil about the English, it’s just that we Aussies are so superior to them in every way that it is difficult to take whatever they say seriously!
Nevertheless, Ollie took the pulpit […]

I mentioned Simply Simon a few posts back, and in particular a message that I had heard Simon deliver in chapel. You might have missed it, but in the comments of that post, Simon mentioned that the text of that message was available on his blog.
Again, Simply Simon is always worth a read, but here’s […]

Two of our young people, and regular mattglover.com contributors, took a deep breath and were batised before friends, family and God on Sunday night.
I’l say this a thousand times before I die, but baptisms are my favourite time in church life. Hearing the story of God entwined with the story of a person is the […]

Some of the MBC gang have been working on a youth website and have made podcasts of most of the messages from the last few weeks, including the Song of Songs series.
If you know what a podcast is and want to listen, visit the site here.

Sunday was Mother’s Day here in Australia, a time when we treat our Mums like royalty by giving them burnt toast and cold coffee for breakfast in bed…
At my church, something else we did this year was have the young people and the children take the morning worship service. Our two services are, in reality, […]

Five gatherings this Easter - must be some sort of record! All were very different, but all powerful in their own way. This year we tried to incorporate a bit more visual art in our worship through a series of oil paintings.
Two years ago, for a reason I now forget, I was thinking about what […]

Continuing our series on the spiritual disciplines, but concluding the shorter series on prayer, Cam tackled the “Why Doesnt God Answer When I Pray?” question. Again, if I’m honest, there’s been numerous times when I’ve thought this. Answers have been hard to see and sometimes it seems like God isn’t listening.
Cam started of by describing […]