The PASSION Blog

My kids asked to do a science experiment this morning for homeschool. At first I thought we would look through the science book we have, but then I remembered something I read recently.
I was reading some comedy from the American stand up comedian Steve Wright. He is very dry in his delivery and has a [...]

Rodney Olsen had an interesting post today. He received an email from a reader of his blog that spoke about how Christians often get caught up in church activities and neglect their families. I found it an interesting subject so I felt I had to respond on Rodney’s blog. Here’s my 2 cents worth on [...]

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that all of our Australian gold medals so far have involved water? We have won gold medals in swimming, rowing, yachting and triathlon. All involve water in some way.
I guess it helps to be a water loving nation that is surrounded by ocean on all sides!
What [...]

In my Pastoral Care unit we looked at some examples of good and bad shepherds this week. In Ezekiel 34 it gives us a guide to what good and bad pastoral care is.
Ezekiel was told to prophesy against the shepherds of Israel that are taking care of themselves and not the people. Ezekiel 34:1-5 are [...]

One thing I have noticed since moving to the WA wheatbelt is the number of committed Christians I have met that don’t attend church regularly.
Up until the last few years I probably would have said that it was not possible to be a committed Christian and not go to church in some form (traditional or [...]

It is interesting on how you see things differently when you read through a whole book of the Bible in one sitting. You see how things tie together as a whole.
This morning I read through the whole book of Mark from the New Testament. It was interesting how Mark really stresses Jesus as the Son [...]

I had a feeling before this Olympics Australia would finish in the top 10 in the medal count. This is a bit lower than we have in the last few Olympics, but still a great result.
One of the reasons I felt this way is because of few of our medal hopes pulled out just before [...]