Is Christianity weird? You bet it is! There are so many things that, over time, we become inoculated against if we are believers. My one-year-old received some inoculations this week. It was hard to watch, but it was for her own good. It got me to thinking that there...

(Warning this blog post contains the repeated use of a word that’s may be seen by some as unbecoming of a minister of religion) It has been an interesting exercise in moving offices in more ways than one. My key learning in the whole process is that churches and the...

A few weeks ago I wrote about white knuckling the steering wheel of your life. I also wrote about peeling your fingers off the wheel and handing it over to God. Not long after that, I was asked to do something way out of...

A life of devotion, what does that mean? I know in my own life that it has often not looked how it should. Despite the songs I’ve sung in church, the messages I’ve been privileged to preach to his people. I have fallen short of the devotion that I wish to give to God....

 It’s been a big month; almost a cliché but to me it definitely feels the older I get the quicker they pass by. So, we’ve reached August by God’s grace; most of us in good health, some of us after a good break hopefully, with much food and in a warm home. I remember...

Last Friday the former Dean of the Anglican Cathedral in Newcastle was convicted of abusing a 15 year old boy in 1991. That boy was & is a good friend of mine. I was in Newcastle last week to spend the evening with him and his closest friends & family. On...