backyardmissionary

There’s not much point sitting thru a whole 4 days of Forge material if you don’t let it penetrate your life.
More information is not what we need as Christians. Hell no. If we (or maybe its I) could only do half of the things I already know to do then maybe we’d really see […]

Today at Forge we had a fantastic time.
Geoff Westlake did two presentations on his mission in Banksia Grove and offered some excellent biblical insights into what a Christian community ought to look like. I hadn’t heard Geoff do these presentations previously, and I loved the way he earthed his thinking in the biblical text.
Alan was […]

Tonight was a great time with over 90 people coming out to the ‘postcards’ event. Well done Scott and Steve and crew who pulled it together. The turnout exceeded all of our expectations and made for some great vibe.
I think the intensity of my day caught up with me tonight. Five ‘one to one’ appointments […]

Tall Skinny Kiwi is taking a session at a conference he is not going to be present at…

Today was one of those days when I am reminded of how much I enjoy the life I get to live.
It began with breakfast in Leedville with a few other guys who are also exploring the questions of mission and church. We catch up monthly for breakfast and I love hanging with these guys - […]

Before I go to bed tonight I am planning to skim read the policies of all the major parties in the race for next Saturday’s election.
Bolders has links to them all if you are interested.
I find it interesting that it has taken 22 years of particpation in Australian society to actually get to the point […]

Ok - come on all you missionary thinkers!
Thanks for the various comments on my post re the Healing festival, but no one offered an opinion on this question:
So here’s a serious question for you…
These guys got together and put on a healing festival. I’m sure part of it was to promote their own businesses, but […]

An email from my ISP:
"Currently you are subscribed to e-wire’s Standard plan. As of March, you will be placed on e-wire’s new Pro plan level - offering a massive 15GB worth of downloads, and a faster 512kbps connection speed. That’s twice the speed you are getting now, with absolutely no increase in price!

We have also […]

The reason I was at New Norcia last night was to speak to the .acom students about Forge and how they can receive credit for doing Forge units.
Scott did a great job of pulling the evening together and it was evident that there was a fair amount of energy in the room as the student […]

If you’re read the six thinking hats then this is simply that kind of stuff in different format.
It was good value first time around but this one feels a bit tired and uninspiring. All he really says is that different situations require different kinds of action. I realise we sometimes don’t get this, but its […]

I dunno about you but it seems that so often the grass looks greener in somebody’s else’s paddock…
As we heard from the father up at the monastery tonight about the monastic practices, there was something very winsome about a life of devotion to God - about the value of hospitality as it is lived […]

Another friend has started a blog. It looks like he’s keeping a low profile so I won’t expose him too much!
Drop over and say g’day.
His latest post is on mental illness and demons - light stuff

I’m off to the unique monastery town of New Norcia this afternoon to give a short Forgey talk to the a.com students.
Its a great little town and one of our unique WA treasures just 100kms north of us.
Sadly it means I’ll miss church tonight and hanging out with the crew.
The big question is which car […]

Rod did an interview with me the other day regarding Forge and our mission here in Brighton.
It was on Sonshine FM tonight (I had forgotten) and will be on tomorrow evening at 9.30pm as well.
If you are overseas and would like to listen to it then you can do it via the net.
It turned […]

Ok - so I haven’t been around this blog much for the last few days, mainly because I have been involved with our local healing festival, an experience that was really valuable in many ways.
I saw the ad on the local Supa Valu store a few weeks back - ‘pranic healing, holographic re-patterning, cranio-sacral balancing, […]

I have just got back from the SU Staff conference down in Busselton. It was really good to meet up with the other staff I rarely see because I work remotely. A great bunch of people!
The crazy weather on the first night combined with this bloke’s snoring meant there was little sleeping being done.
Now […]

Flying home on the plane last night I was praying about the stuff I needed to share with the team tonight. I had things to say but they didn’t feel quite right.
I sensed God saying we should be talking about how a Christian would vote at the coming state election.
To be honest this has not […]

Its been a few days now since I’ve seen Danelle and kids.
I miss them… I reckon that’s a good thing.
Who would have thought it!…

Today I was down at the Sonshine FM radio station doing an interview with Rod Olsen about Forge and what we are doing in W.A.
Given that Rod’s latest interviews have included people like Cosima Devito I feel very privileged!
Rod and I used to go to the same little Baptist church for many years in […]

Here’s a challenging article by Brian McClaren on the movie Hotel Rwanda. It hasn’t made it to Perth yet, but come Feb 24th it will be at the Luna cinema in Leederville so I reckon I reckon I’ll definitely need to drop in and check it out.