Meeting peoples physical needs, good works has proven to be a tough issue for churches. Unfortunately many churches just go down the road of doing good and forget God’s word, and others react in fear of liberalism and run to the opposite end on the spectrum. John Stott has said that for a Christian,...

Store up comfort. This was the prophet’s mission. The world is full of comfortless hearts, and ere thou art sufficient for this lofty ministry, thou must be trained. And thy training is costly in the extreme; for, to render it perfect, thou too must pass through the same afflictions as are wringing...

BodyPump is a weight-based group-fitness program, classes are 55 minutes long and contain eight separate muscle-group specific songs or “tracks” along with an opening warm up track and closing cooldown track. The classes are performed to music using free weights-plates, barbells and an aerobic...

Doubt seems to be one of those polar things in the church; either you are very afraid of it and you are never ever allowed to doubt anything, especially the preacher, or you should doubt everything and just sit on the fence your entire life doubting everything and believing nothing. Doubt is a status...

Every Christmas there seems to be some crazy “christian” who thinks they can disregard Jesus virgin birth, adn for some reason the media LOVES picking up on it. This years was and Anglican church (suprise suprise we have the crazies) who thought they would put up a fairly inappropriate poster: I...

One thing that I have noticed about newborns is the affect that they can have on the adults around them. It kind of seem that when newborns and babies in general are around that girls and women are turned into some kind of repetitive high pitch noise making machine “oh your so cute aren’t you? Yes...

Now I love this ritual we are about to undertake. the ritual of present giving. Not because I like Christmas in and of itself, but because one of my majors at uni was sociology, and I really enjoy watching social trends. I love observing trends at present giving time because the presents that people...

Over the past couple of weeks tiger Woods has been making the front page news, people are coming out left right and center saying how they knew something was wrong based on his playing, past girlfriends from High School are saying he was a nice boy but they are not surprised, people are labeling him...

Over the past 6 months i have been privileged enough to spend some time with 5 theologians who are much greater thinkers than myself, each with over 2 decades of ministry and lecturing experience in Australian Evangelical circles. This has all come about because of a few factors a. being in the right...

I rocked up to work early yesterday as i had a few things in teh office that i needed to follow up and i had promised a few people i would look at a few things for them. As i walked into the office i saw the office supervisor working hard on a few files, i greeted her and went to the other office. About...