Archive for the 'Family' Category

12 months ago today

July 10th, 2008

It is 12 months ago today that we packed up the car and a big moving truck and headed up Great Eastern Highway to start our new life in Merredin. For us it has been a great 12 months. We have all learned a lot in the process, grown a lot and had lots of [...]

God’s peace and presence

July 6th, 2008

A friend of mine was over the other day and he commented on how you can feel God’s peace and presence in our home. This got me thinking about what we do that makes our house feel that way to people who come in to it.
Here are some of the things we do and try [...]

Involving our kids

July 1st, 2008

One of the things my wife Larissa and I have tried to do is involve our kids in our faith and ministry as much as we can. We have never pushed them to be involved as they are only young (10 & 8), but we have allowed them to be present in our prayer times [...]

Grace for kids

June 23rd, 2008

I was sitting in my lounge room this morning and my youngest started reading the titles of books in our bookshelf. She came to Philip Yancey’s book “What’s so amazing about grace?” and asked what grace was. My first thought was I have just woken up, can I have an easier question!
After some thought I [...]

No place like home

June 17th, 2008

My girls and I made a quick trip to Perth and Mandurah on Sunday and got back tonight. While love going back to Perth and seeing my family, I have to say there is no place like home. There is nothing like drinking out of your own coffee cup, sitting in your comfy recliner and [...]

Training our kids

June 7th, 2008

The Bible says in Proverbs 22:6 that we should, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it”. This verse gives us great encouragement to really nurture and teach our kids the things of God. It also makes the promise that if we do, [...]

Discipling our kids

January 11th, 2008

One of things I feel called to do this year is disciple my kids. Since our kids were very young we have tried to teach them about our faith in Christ and tried to instill godly values in them.
I have been praying about it and I have decided to use the resource from Billy Graham [...]

My primary calling

October 17th, 2007

I’ve been reflecting on my most important ministry lately. As someone who is primarily an Evangelist who is working that out as a church Pastor, I have been looking at the role the church needs me to be and the role I am called to be.
In the midst of all of that I was reminded [...]

Merredin update

June 20th, 2007

Hello all,
I thought I would give you a bit of an update of how the move to Merredin is going. We now have a date for settlement of our homes (old and new). It is the 9th of July. So all things going well, we should be loading a truck on the 9th and [...]

Proverbs and wisdom

June 19th, 2007

Over the last 12 months or so I have noticed my wife Larissa has been getting wiser and wiser and wiser. Every now and then she comes out with great pearls of wisdom which have been very impressive! She is definately becoming wiser by the day.
Recently I found out Larissa’s secret. She has been reading one [...]