Recently I have been pondering how I should approach these various ceremonies and considering whether I should be available to ‘one and all’ in the community or simply to people with whom we already have a significant relationship.
Up to now I have generally maintained a pretty open and flexible approach being willing to try and [...]
Here’s a challenging quote from Bonhoeffer for you this morning.
“God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God, by others, and by himself. He enters the community of Christians with his demands, sets up his own [...]
“Lesslie Newbigin, born 100 years ago , launched a new career at age 66 by calling Western churches to act like they were in the mission field.”
Read the whole article here
Newbigin has been a huge inspiration behind the recalibrating of church and mission all around the western world over the last few decades.
“You see when you are middle class you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history will never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price to be paid for day to day comfort and [...]
By and large I enjoy movies that tell a real story and that confront us with life as it really is and there’s no question Samson and Delilah does that.
Its the story of two aboriginal teenagers living on a community in central Australia who leave and attempt to find their place in Alice Springs. From [...]
I had been using my previous blog template for about 5 years and today thought it might be time for a change…
Chances are I will play around with this a bit before settling on a format that I like so there may still be some more changes afoot.
But in case you thought you had arrived [...]
About 5 months ago we discovered that we had lost $250K, as a result of a failed property development. We don’t have a spare $250K sitting around to lose so it has been a challenging time.
More accurately we had the money stolen by the company director who illegally used the equity in our development to [...]
From Justin Baeder
It’s been a bit of a crappy week in business with one job turning to custard and leaving both me and my customer in a difficult spot.
I took on a retic and turf / landscaping job for a new house, something I really enjoy doing because it’s good hard work, pays well and the [...]