Today did not go as planned.
It was intended to be a solitude / prayer / reflection kind of day – the kind of day that would have made a Thomas Merton proud.
Danelle and I do these together (in fact we would like to do it with other couples if any are up for it) [...]
This year Danelle and I have set aside 5 days as ‘prayer retreats’, days when we simply leave the kids with mum and dad and head off to spend a day in prayer and reflection.
A luxury?
So some have said to me.
I prefer to think of it as a necessity – a part of my ‘job’ [...]
We had a great team retreat on the weekend just gone.
One of the highlights was staying at the Lancelin backpackers with all the travellers and tourists. On sunday night one of the long term travellers – an italian pizza cook – put on an all you can eat pizza night for a mere $7.00 a [...]
Today I had time to read the discussion taking place at Phil Baker’s blog on the issue of tithing.
Allan Meyer has argued his case in favour of tithing over the last few days and others have responded both agreeing and disagreeing.
You might like to check it out. Its a long read and the arguments get [...]
I have got the test version of our Upstream love potion no 9 movie download
judge dredd dvd download
website up and running.
It is not intended to be highly interactive, but more of an info base for those wishing to know more.
I’d value any comments from you guys.
Does it make sense?
Does it sound like [...]
We are in a process of re-orientation (yet again) with our Upstream community.
The great thing about constant shifts in direction is that no-one can complain that we ‘change’ too often – change is a way of being for us and a ‘given’. To ‘change’ would be to stay in one place / do the [...]
After getting back from a couple of very full days in Melbourne I looked in my diary only to see I had for some reason booked in 6 meetings for Thursday…
Very dumb.
Fortunately my first appointment failed to show (I have discovered that I need to build in a 1/5 ‘no show/forget’ rate in coaching) and [...]
Well…
3 days at a pastor’s retreat last week, three days in Melbourne this week and a mission team retreat this long weekend all makes for a fairly unsettled patch of life.
Add to that relatives coming to stay over the next two weeks (10 at various different points) – and the possibilities of change don’t look [...]
A group of us did a boatsmart course today, so now I (technically) know how to operate a boat…
It was a beautiful day out on the river cruising between Nedlands and Fremantle. I almost fell asleep while Steve was driving, but that could have been the fumes from the 2 stroke motor!
With all the sun, [...]
Tomorrow I go to Melbourne for our Forge National Team meetings.
In light of the AFL grand final about to happen this weekend, between Sydney and West Coast, I wonder what I could get for my ticket?…
Any bids