40 hour famine

it just occurred to me to post the link to sponsoring me for the 40 hour famine here on my blog. I’ve been so frantic organizing the Blackwood global village 40 hour famine events over this weekend that i forgot to ask for sponsors. I’ll post a story on the famine events next week and [...]

Surprised by foolishness

The apostle Paul once wrote, ‘God chooses the foolish things of this world to shame the wise’ (1 Cor 1:27)
In a world where performers are celebrities, the most beautiful and successful people in the world (this would have been unheard of a hundred years ago), where the celebrity is perpetuated by glossy magazines that tell [...]

Holy moments in dark places

Today is Good Friday. It’s early in the morning as I prepare to lead another service (2nd of 4th) in this Easter weekend, and I pause to remember this day has been declared a national day of mourning in Italy following the earthquake. It is also an international day of mourning for Christians around the [...]

Good Friday

I am on a mailing list for reflections written by my former theological lecturer. Dr. Stephen Curkpatrick sent this one through yesterday. I wonder what you make of this reflection:
When church is a pitiful business
If Christ is not risen, “we are of all people most to be pitied” on a Sunday or any [...]

A weary traveller

Hi everyone, miss me? I can’t believe it’s been 3 months since I posted a blog. I did spend a couple of months travelling around Europe so that explains my absence. It’s taken me a while to get back into the swing of things. I ended up posting my Europe updates on Facebook but now [...]

Life is crazy

Hi all,
Did you miss me? Well I certainly missed blogging. Life just got crazy and I neglected my blog. Well I’m back! I’ve got so many blog posts just waiting to burst out of me so I’ll attempt to throw some out now and wait for some responses to interact with.
Some of the extra curricula [...]

Win a Wii – name a church

Today I did one of those things that I do when I’m working hard all day and I miss lunch, I took a few minutes out mid afternoon and very naughtily sunk across to the fish & chips place across the road. i ordered a small bag of chips then sat on the bench and [...]

Dismiss or discern?

Just recently I heard a message from a speaker who visited Adelaide. While I couldn’t tell you everything he said, there was a profound challenge that stuck with me. He shared some stories in his message which were a bit beyond my scope of experience or understanding. They were stories that talked about the work [...]

My mum the fool

My mum just arrived back in Adelaide this morning from Africa. 5 weeks ago she set off on a journey to an orphanage in the north of Uganda…yes that’s right, Uganda.
I must say it is great to have her home again, we did miss her and probably worried about her a bit while she was [...]

What Matters Most

Hi friends,
It’s been so long since I posted a blog (6 weeks in fact) I bet you’ve given up on me. A couple of my blog friends have hinted a few times that I haven’t written anything lately. I had an extremely busy month through May ministry wise, then I got quite sick, then went [...]