In Western Australia we have the referendum on Daylight Saving. We have to vote either yes or no if we officially want daylight saving in WA each year. I can see that there are a number of positives and negatives for both sides of the vote. In general, the “yes” voters want it because it [...]

My wife Larissa has a little notebook/diary she uses to keep organised. At the bottom of each page is some Bible verses to reflect on during the day. She just showed me the verses for the next week. I thought they were all positive and worth sharing… Nehemiah 8:10 – …the joy of the LORD [...]

I have found that there are times in your Christian walk when God seems silent. You might be praying and asking a specific question, but heaven seems silent. It is not that God is not speaking to you about other things, but the question you are asking is not being answered. In these times I [...]

The latest online craze in our house is Poptropica. Poptropica is a game for 6-15 yo children. It’s designers have intentionally made it so that you can’t input anything that may be explicit or questionable. The first thing your child (or you) would do is choose a automatically generated character, complete with a cool name [...]

My wife and I are in our sixth year of homeschooling. When we started out we found it hard to find resources and information to begin our journey of home education. Because of this I thought I would share three resources that have helped us over the years. 1. The WA Education Department The WA [...]

Hi all, Just to let you know that I have set up a mobile friendly version of The PASSION Blog. I am not a big web surfer from my phone, but I understand there is an increasing number of people who access the web from their phones. Here’s the link to phone friendly version. God [...]

An interesting thing has been happening to me over the last little while. My focus has been changing from wanting to be upfront in church and ministry to working away in the background being more of a support worker. I don’t know exactly when this started to happen, but it has slowly been changing. Rather [...]