We have just finished building an investment home and are about to sell it.
I have spent some time over the last few days shovelling dirt around the place to get the levels right for brick paving, so I know where every pile of dirt is on that block now! The guy in the house [...]
Its sad to say but in recent years it has become quite fashionable to focus on the place of the poor and marginalised in our society – well to talk about it – because the hard cold reality is much different to the romantic notions.
In the last 10 years the ’social gospel’ as [...]
It is our dinner time custom to read a short Bible story with the kids.
Last night we read that bizarre little passage about Jesus having to pay temple tax and sending Peter out to go fishing, telling him that he would find a coin in the fish’s mouth. (That’s gotta be one of the [...]
Its about time someone drew a line in the sand!
Freo have taken the big step of dropping Antoni Grover, Steven Dodd, Brett Peake, Paul Hasleby, Des Headland and Dean Solomon for missing training or being out on the turps. It is in effect sacrificing any slim opportunity of making the finals because their chances of [...]
Guest in the backyard: Jarrod McKenna
Can we separate living the gospel from sharing it? Evangelism from the invitation to follow Jesus?
Last night I arrived back from a country tour with ‘Empowering Peacemakers’ (or EPYC) inviting High School students to forsake lives wasteful consumption and dare lose their themselves in lives of compassion on behalf of [...]
Last week a friend in our suburb told me that he had earnt $5400.00 in his new job. For most of us that’s a reasonable monthly salary, but he had achieved it in just one week as an unskilled worker. I have to admit I was a little impressed.
However as I dug a little [...]
Jarrod McKenna’s Wednesday’s with Gandhi: “May it not be that ‘Go ye unto all the world’ message has been somewhat narrowly interpreted and the spirit of it missed? It will not be denied, I speak from experience, that many of the conversions are only so-called. In some cases, the appeal has gone not to the [...]
Phil McCredden and Brad Flynn did a great job last week!
You can listen to their presentations here. For those seeking to express church differently, but operating from within the structure this will give you hope.
I hope…
That’s right fellas – we all knew that anyway didn’t we…
I was pondering yesterday what the ideal size would be for a church.
My raw thoughts:
If there are a couple of thousand of you then you can do some incredible stuff with the resources you have. You can run quality programs, administrate well and deliver services [...]