Archive for the 'Faith & life' Category

Country living

March 3rd, 2010

We have been living in Merredin for over two and a half years now. It has been a great change for us moving from city life to country life.
Today I thought I would share some of the things I have enjoyed and some of the things I have found hard about country life.
Positives

A much slower [...]

Good parenting advice from Dr Sears part 2

March 2nd, 2010

Last week I shared some advice that has been helpful to me as a Christian parent from Dr Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”.
Today I thought I would share some more advice on commitment to being a Christian parent. In the first chapter Dr Sears shares seven things that God expects from [...]

Good parenting advice from Dr Sears

February 23rd, 2010

One of the parenting books I have found quite useful over the years is Dr William Sears book “Parenting and Childcare: A Guide for Christian Parents”. My wife purchased it just before our second child was born.
Two things in the book have really helped me over the years. The first one is about priorities and [...]

Work, pay and enjoyment

February 17th, 2010

I watched an interesting show on the ABC recently. It is called “The People Watchers”. It is a team of psychologists who set up different situations and observe people as they do them. Afterwards they reveal their experiment to the people and ask questions on how they felt.
In the recent episode they asked two groups of [...]

Inspired and pumped

February 12th, 2010

As I mentioned a few days ago I was doing a three day secular course called “Discovering your potential”. The course finished yesterday afternoon and I feel really inspired and pumped up.
The course content was really positive and uplifting for three solid days. Although I had previously studied much of the psychology and leadership principles in the past it [...]

Church and positivity

February 10th, 2010

I am currently doing a three day secular training course at the moment. It is called, “Discovering your potential”.
As I listen to the course content and as I read through the notes, I am amazed how much of the content I have already heard in church or from my Bible college training.
It just reminds me [...]

Praying for church members

February 5th, 2010

One of the things I like about our church is each week we pray for two members (and their families) of our Parish.
This goes in our weekly newsletter and on our website so everyone can know who is to be prayed for. The people also get prayed for at the weekly prayer meeting in Merredin.
It is [...]