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Accept the unexpected

Accept the unexpected

“The thing I love about Christianity is that it’s the one religion that basically says: you stink! Come on in!” This quote from comedian Brad Stine is actually quite true..

  • The Story Behind QANTAS - Sir Hudson Fysh 1895-1974

    His grandfather helped William Booth found the Salvation Army and Hudson Taylor the famous China Inland Mission. His mother Mary spent time working as a missionary in China with Hudson Taylor and with the Rev George Brown in Papua New Guinea.

  • State-Borders’ Business

    Tronson du Coudray’s art work for the Tuesday 9 March Tweed Heads Chamber of Commerce breakfast ‘business card drawer’ was titled ‘State-Borders’ Business’.

  • Does your Church have Favourites?

    The church community should be a place of welcome and acceptance for all persons, but it is not always experienced as such

  • God’s Joy in the COVID World

  • Subjugation of Christians in China and Iran

    In both countries, the regimes are ignoring the concept of religious freedom and seeking to control their populations by force.

  • Hope – The Golden Thread of Life

    Hope. It is simply one of the most amazing words there is. It flies into the capricious face of loss, pain and tragedy and says, \"This is not the end.\"

  • Peace and safety, peas and carrots

    Peace and safety are not synonymous terms, nor do they go together like peas and carrots. It appears to me that our modern age possesses a perception that humanity cannot have peace unless security under every possible scenario is guaranteed.

  • The Secret of Fruit Bearing

    When Paul exhorts the Philippians, “Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.” (chapter 4 verse17), he shifts the focus from material giving to eternal things.

  • Do you lift, bro?

    I’ve never been one of those people who particularly enjoys exercise, seeing it as a necessary evil in order to prevent my love of food leaving me completely sedentary and ordering people to thrown into Sarlacc Pits.

  • Read the room

    I am not so sure Christians are very good at times “reading the room.”

  • What’s the point?

    I love gardens but am no gardener. The parental ‘green thumb’ didn’t pass on to me. (Our natural bushland has its own self-managing beauty, fortunately.)