Danelle and I spent today without the kids and at the wedding of one of our local youth pastors. Jono is a friend from way back and great bloke, who has been waiting for quite while to find the right girl.
Well, he and Cate Prout got hitched out at Upper Reach Winery in the Swan [...]
The last church I was at decided it was going to build a community centre.
The idea was that rather than build a bigger church building to get used one day a week for services, we would build a community facility that could be used as much as possible by community groups with church just meeting [...]
For the last couple of months I have taken Sam on Tuesdays while Danelle has taken the day to do whatever she wants. Often this involves some time reading, praying and tuning into God in a more focused way than is possible with fatboy around.
We were talking last night about this practice of taking time [...]
“Blessed are the pessimists for they shall never be disappointed.”
I don’t know if anyone has actually said this, so if not I will claim it as my own quote!
I see a spectrum of people in this world:
Idealists – who dream of the perfect world and believe it is possible.
Optimists – who know the world [...]
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Interesting I thought…
This piece of wisdom from my mate across the road…
Quite often we ask ourselves hard to answer questions, like, “What is a bastard?”
And we wax philosophic with metaphysical postulations, incomplete aphorisms, and inconsistent sophisms that make one more and more sure that the only true thing is that a picture is worth a thousand words.
In [...]
from Howard Snyder’s ‘Liberating the Church’ via jonny baker
The church gets in trouble whenever it thinks its in the church business rather than the Kingdom business. In the church business people are concerned with church activities, religious behaviour and spiritual things. In the Kingdom business people are concerned with Kingdom activities, all human behaviour [...]
Will Jesus dreamcatcher dvdrip download replace The Wiggles as the band aid of choice?
Via Purgatorio
Thom Rainer’s latest book (along with Eric Geiger) is entitled Simple Church – Returning to God’s process for making Disciples.
What a novel idea…
Or is it now a trendy idea, given much of what is happening in emerging circles?
Whatever the case I am sure simplicity is a definite key to continual growth in discipleship. I imagine [...]
Ok – I have deleted what was on this post. Sorry to all those who are curious by nature!
I got involved in a conversation that I would rather leave behind.