“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what...

I enjoy a good movie. But I have to remind myself that so much of what I see on the screen is not what it seems. Much of it is illusion. Hollywood is the land of illusion. So I keep my critical faculties on alert when I view a movie - no matter how good it is. If we...

I want you to imagine you are sitting in Carnegie Hall or the Sydney Opera House, waiting for a concert to commence, featuring a magnificent Symphony Orchestra. However, before magnificence, you must experience chaos. The sound of the musicians tuning their...

Robert Faughum once wrote an article called, 'All I Ever Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten'  in which he said the following: "These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own...

One of the most common conclusions from the thousands of Church Growth studies done over the past 50 years is as simple as it is profound and that is: healthy Churches grow easily. - This premise is so simple that Church leaders have been overlooking it for years as...

Every moment of every day you and I are faced with choices - the outcome of which can and does affect us, our family, the Church and the society in which we live. Basically, the bottom line is that life is an unpredictable and at times treacherous journey into the...

In the beginning there was light and life and love. There was the Father loving His Son in the joy of the Holy Spirit and everything has come from light and life and love. And out of this has come a world that is destined to share in light and life and love. - But we...

I remember in my early Christian years we had what we called ‘after Church’ on a Sunday night. We would go to someone’s place who had a piano. No electronic instruments back then. We would then just sing for an hour non-stop and worship God. Of course supper always...

I don't believe love is just doing the right thing. I don't believe love is just keeping commandments. I don't believe love is just being patient and kind and all those other attributes 1 Corinthians 13 lists for us. That is what love looks like when it walks and...

We know that the secularisation of our Schools has been happening for many years as the voice and influence of God and the Christian Church are pushed further and further towards the school gate and in many cases, all programed Christian influence has already been...