I went on a lovely hike over the weekend. A friend and I hiked down at Wilsons Prom and visited the lighthouse. What struck me about the weekend, other than the obvious beauty of the surrounds, was the local wildlife. Whilst sitting down and preparing dinner I happened to get the fright of my life. [...]

Just watched an interesting video discussing Jesus’ role as a prophet. It then flowed on to how Christians should stand up for justice. I loved the description of a cartoon that was told. In the cartoon there was a person praying, “Jesus thanks so much for coming into my life, but did you have to [...]

I got a new computer a couple of weeks back and with it I bought X-Plane. X-Plane is a very good flight simulator. Ever since I got it I have been trying to find time to sit down and practice my flying skills. For someone who has a passing interest in flying but will never [...]

Just a short post today to mention a couple of resources that I have found really helpful recently. The first is Living the Questions. Although it is expensive to buy outright (we have borrowed our copy) it is a great resource that I am considering purchasing. It is a set of DVDs that is split [...]

Yesterday our church ‘team’ got together and went through a process called “Team Management Systems”. Basically we all filled out an online questionnaire that asked us about how we prefer to work and interact with people. We were then given a pretty detailed report on our ‘work preference style’. The importance, for our team, came [...]

If you have been watching the news here in Australia over the weekend you will have seen the political furore over the boatload of Asylum Seekers that caught fire and sunk, killing five people and injuring scores more. Seven and a half years on from the ‘Children overboard’ fiasco both sides of Federal politics have [...]

I have just finished reading Graeme Hodge’s post ‘grow your own’ over on the Rubicon and thought that I would like to add some thoughts to what he has to say. Hodge talks about the need for individuals to take action to work against climate change. He highlights the problem of individual action being drowned [...]

Firstly, I must apologise to my regular readers. My less than regular posting schedule over the last week and a half has been due to starting work again and struggling to maintain my blogging schedule amongst competing demands. Hopefully it will begin to sort itself out. As I mentioned in a previous post I have [...]

Today’s challenge for the 31 days to build a better blog challenge is to write a list post, so here it is: As you have no doubt picked up, I am keen on building community. I think one of the best ways to build community is to eat together, so here is my list of [...]

I am reading “Leadership in the Salvation Army: A case study in clericalisation” by Harold Hill at the moment. It is a great book (so far) looking at how the role of Officership has changed over the history of the Salvation Army. He documents the movement from Officership being differentiated from soldiership on the basis [...]