The PASSION Blog

I had an interesting discussion with some friends last week about why people go to church. There was about 12 of us and we went around the group and shared our thoughts. I found it was an interesting discussion and it was good to hear why people went to church.
There were a number of reasons [...]

Now I am no expert in the financial stock markets and investments, but one thing that seems to happen every seven years or so is the stock markets have a slump. This has the effect of levelling them out and if many stocks were overpriced, they seem to come back to a more normal level. [...]

One of the great things about God is that He is never far away. Even though sometimes in our lives we might feel like we are living in exile or being held captive, He is always willing to bring us a message of hope.
We see this in the Old Testament book of Jeremiah. In chapter [...]

Yesterday my wife, girls and I went out to a friends farm. It is always nice to get out of town and be on a farm as I love the wide open space and the peace and quiet.
One of the things I got to do was ride in a harvester for the first time. I [...]

This morning I had a short worship time. The song that really hit the spot for me was Hillsong’s “Show me your ways”. It is another older one, but it expressed my heart to God today.
I am finding this more and more lately. That when I put on some worship music that one song usually [...]

One of the things that has been on my mind lately is the whole idea of mission and vision for a church or for a ministry. In particular I have been thinking that if we get our mission and vision right then it can act as a filter for all we do as Christians and/or [...]

Criticism can be hard to take at times. It can be especially hard to receive when we have put our heart and soul into something and someone comes and criticises our work. Or worse still - they criticise us personally.
However, when we receive criticism there are some things we an do to receive it a [...]