I’m reading a book on Christian Leadership at the moment. It’s called ‘Leading With A Limp’, by Dan Allender. I started reading it last week. And this week, the whole Brian Houston/Hillsong saga blew up in our faces. I say ‘our faces’ because for years, Hillsong has been untouchable, immutable, carved in stone as THE […]
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Big Leopards Kill
February 14, 2020 
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I used to have Dr Paul White’s ‘Jungle Book’ series as a kid. I used to enjoy reading the stories – fictional and non- fictional, and I find myself remembering some of those stories as an adult today. One saying that stuck with me over the years went something like this: “Little Leopards grow into […]
Continue readingI call BS!
October 5, 2019 0 Comments
I really don’t know what’s going on with Christianity at the moment! American Christianity in particular, but Australia as well. Overnight Franklin Graham held a rally in North Carolina, part of his long running ‘Decision America’ tour. The rally was supposedly intended to call Americans back to Christ. Yet according to AP News, it became […]
Continue readingPeople, We Need to Dial Down the Rhetoric!
March 20, 2019 0 Comments
If we go around treating every issue as a matter of life and death, then we lose sight of the issues that really are life and death.
Continue readingBurning Down The House
October 19, 2018 0 Comments
The title comes from an 80s song by Talking Heads. The opening verse carries these lines. I’m an ordinary guy Burning down the house They might have been singing about us! Two things happened this week that caught my attention: The first was while I was on my way to work a couple of days […]
Continue readingCoffee Machine Crazy
February 13, 2018 1 Comment
Two weeks ago I became the proud owner of a coffee machine. Not a brand-new-state-of-the-art machine. But a dilapidated, old, industrial type that had been sitting in someone’s shed for about a year, a victim of an upgrade. I was assured that it was still working when it had been replaced. I took delivery of […]
Continue readingWould you like some Moore Wedding Cake?
December 6, 2017 2 Comments
I took a rare moment today to see what was happening in Facebook land. I’ve been off there for months, with no real idea about who has been doing what. But every so often I take a sneak peek, and this was one of those times.I scrolled through the various posts, when two items caught […]
Continue readingWhy I’m Off Facebook
September 11, 2017 3 Comments
Did you miss me? Probably not, and that’s fine. I’m not so self deluded as to think that my absence would (or should) be noticed. The world does not revolve around me, and I’m actually quite happy with that. I’m off Facebook for a variety of reasons, here they are: The current SSM issue. My […]
Continue readingPatience! The missing ingredient of Your Church Growth Strategy.
May 28, 2017 4 Comments
I’m half way through Alan Kreider’s book, ‘The Patient Ferment of The Early Church’. Its a different read for me. Kreider’s argument is that the early church did very little evangelism. Christians didn’t invite their unsaved neighbours to church. There was no such thing as the ‘seeker sensitive’ service, or a ‘purpose driven’ church. Christianity […]
Continue readingThe Age of (Christian) Entitlement Is Over
January 1, 2017 2 Comments
This one has been bubbling around inside my head for quite a few years now. It started about 10 or 11 years ago, but has been brought to the forefront of my thinking by reading Scott McKnight’s ‘The Kingdom Conspiracy’. There’s a chapter in there that talks about the Roman Emperor Constantine, and the effect […]
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