Pastor Rob will be writing an Advent thought every day from 1 until 24 December. It will be written in a way that includes the whole family and by reading the thought together each day, it is our prayer that it will make the presence of Jesus a little more real as you lead up to Christmas!
Have you ever wondered how our world would be different if Jesus was never born?
I am writing to inform you of the decisions taken by the WBC Council at its meeting last Saturday to determine our response as a church to the guidelines for ‘mass gatherings’ introduced by the Federal Government on […]
As I write, one theme is dominating the news headlines – toilet paper supplies in our supermarkets are running low as a result of “panic buying” by large numbers of the Australian population.
Why is this?
One reason suggested is […]
Scanning through my FB feed one morning, I came across a link to a page announcing itself as the “Unchurching Community”. The initiative comes from a former pastor, Richard Jacobson, who left his role as a pastor in 2003, […]
I was asked recently to speak at a seminar on The Five Love Languages and my topic was Quality Time.
Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages describes Quality Time as “giving someone your undivided attention” and that it is a “powerful emotional communicator […]
The Philosopher, Plato, once quoted a story from Greek mythology that said human beings “were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.” […]
I mentioned last month about how we have become obsessed in our culture with programs like Married at First Sight or the new kid on the block, Date Night.
As I also said, I do not watch these programs, […]
I can honestly say that I have never watched a single episode of Married at First Sight or The Farmer Wants a Wife and I do not intend to – the advertisements are enough!
What strikes me is that […]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis describes the ship sailing into an unearthly, inky blackness and rescuing a sailor who had been lost in the darkness for years. Taking the man onboard, the crew begins […]
In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll describes a conversation between Alice and Humpty Dumpty on the topic of words and their meaning. It goes like this: […]
