About four weeks ago I read Angus Buchan’s book “Faith like potatoes”. It was one I had in my bookshelf for about a year after my wife bought it for me as a present after some major hinting by me and circling it in a Koorong catalouge! I had tried to read it a few [...]

A couple of weeks ago I shared in this post what Jesus saved us from. I shared that salvation involves two main ideas… Being rescued from the penalty of sin – which means death and eternal separation from God. Being in right relationship with God – both now and for all eternity. In essence the [...]

In one of my lectures the other day we looked at the history of Pastoral Care. The lecturer used Clebsch’s and Jaeckle’s book “Pastoral Care in Historical Perspective”. I thought it was interesting that they noted eight “epochs” of time in pastoral care since the early church began. In these eight epochs they noted that [...]

Ezekiel 33:1-6 talks about a watchman standing up on the wall looking to the distance to see if a threat is coming against the city. If the watchman sees a threat he is to sound a trumpet warning and then it is up to the people in the city to respond to the call. It [...]

One of the things I really feel called to is the ministry of intercessory prayer. More than anything else I do ministry wise, this is where I most feel like I am partnering with God in His work. For me intercessory prayer takes place in two ways. 1. My prayers – These are when I [...]

I got some results back yesterday for my first semester of Bible College. I got two high distinctions and two distinctions and I am still waiting on one subject result to come through. I think it should be another distinction too from assignment results. To be honest, it is not easy being a mature age [...]

About 20 odd years ago I started doing weights. Like most teenagers I started because I wanted big rock hard muscles to show off. This is a very different reason to why I do them now in my early 40s I must say! When I started I would do them every day religiously. I would [...]