Surprised by joy
Some of my favourite stories as a child were those written by C.S. Lewis in his Narnia Chronicles. They are stories about children doing amazing thing [...]
Some of my favourite stories as a child were those written by C.S. Lewis in his Narnia Chronicles. They are stories about children doing amazing thing [...]
This Sunday we are invited to remember those men and women who have inspired people through the ages because of the way they lived; and because in tha [...]
The other day I was talking to a member of our congregation at St John’s about what we might do when the restrictions ease and enable us to gather aga [...]
In my mid-teens I had the privilege of going on a ‘safari’ into the outback – way up to Tibooburra in the north west corner of NSW. We went to build a [...]
One of the big challenges in our lives is learning how to respond when things don’t go the way we had hoped. It could be as simple as a recipe not tur [...]
Friendship is one of the great gifts of life. I am grateful for those people in my life who have shared some of my journey, listened attentively to me [...]
This week I had a zoom catch up with the other ministers and pastors in the Essendon area, and it was good to see their faces, hear their voices and l [...]
What a strange new world we live in, as we enter a more restricted phase of lockdown as our State Government urgently beefs up its measures to contain [...]
As we live through this time of physical distancing, wearing masks and staying home as much as possible, we have seen a huge change in the way people [...]
Last week I wrote about Jacob and the way God began to work in him to lead him toward a more centred and compassionate life – dragging him out of the [...]