If you’ve been wanting to explore mission, discipleship and Christian living in the suburbs from a whole new perspective then here’s a golden opportunity to join the Upstream team and be part of the journey.
My good friend Owen Beck who lives just down the road from us in Brighton has recently got engaged to a [...]
While we were away over Easter I read my copy of The New Conspirators, the latest book by Tom Sine (who will be speaking at the Forge Festival in 2 weekends time and then in Perth after that for a few days)
I don’t have time at the moment for an indepth review, but I will [...]
People would rarely use the words ‘Hamo’ and ‘romance’ in the same sentence, however that’s not to say it isn’t possible…
Anyway today I enthusiastically said to ‘the wife’, ‘Next weekend we are in Busselton for the weekend- our wedding anniversary. What about we leave the kids with someone, book into Bunker Bay resort for a [...]
Some excellent clarity of thought here. I post it as much for my own future reference as for your enjoyment.
“There is no agreement in the church today about what happens to people when they die. Yet the New Testament is crystal clear on the matter: In a classic passage, Paul speaks of “the redemption of [...]
Having just got back from a Forge National team meeting in Melbourne, I’m off to the southwest with 6 or 7 families from the local community for a camp so things will be a little quieter around here.
Before you go and buy any Easter chocolate you should read Grendels’ post here
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Roo (aka Andrew patrick) is asking the question:
“I want to hear where people stand on the issue of evolution within a Christian context. Do you think it’s possible to follow Jesus and agree with evolution? Or are the two mutually exclusive?”
You can give him your thoughts over here.
FWIW I think ‘yes’. It is possible to [...]
I had another email this week from the BUWA asking the question ‘how is your church influencing the community it is a part of?’ The results are to collated and used at the next Baptist assembly.
I was pondering how to answer this, and then I asked Danelle…
“By living in it and being part of [...]
It seems a pretty standard trait of almost every church I’ve been a part of (including Upstream) that when it comes to praying in a group, we almost always ’share’ what’s going on (talk about it) and then when everyone’s had a turn we pray about it.
I have often wondered if the ’sharing’ isn’t actually [...]
For those interested I’ve been invited to be the Christian speaker at the Freo Palm Sunday Peace Rally. Here’s the details:
16 Mar 2008 – 12:00pm
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“Troops out of Iraq and Afganistan, No more war on terror – defend civil liberties, renewables not wars for oil.”
Kings Square, Adelaide St, Fremantle (outside town hall). igor [...]
From Sacred Space today:
“When we speak of ‘letting your light shine before others’ what are we talking about?… It means living in such a way that our lives would not make sense if God did not exist.”
I like this description and find it sufficiently challenging to be an ongoing question for reflection.
In what way [...]