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Are your thoughts your own?

Are your thoughts your own?

I’m sure I’m right. I’m positive that I’m right that I’m right about a lot less than I think I am..

  • Win people, not arguments

    I can be argumentative. Seriously. I am often more inclined to fight for a point to be understood than I am to encourage my friends. Not because I like being right – at least I hope not – I simply hate the thought of people being wrong or misinformed. It genuinely irritates me when someone isn’t everything I know they can be and they aren’t trying to reach their full potential. I believe we can be better.

  • Arise Conference 2019: The Good Fight - Part 2

    The closing to Arise Conference 2019 was a great prophecy not only for individuals but also the nation of New Zealand. Arise Conference has always been about more people knowing God and walking in their God given purpose. This mandate to see the nation of Aotearoa saved for God resounded at the conference.

  • Review  - Questions and Responses 2

    Rev Dr Rowland Croucher’s second in his series - Questions and Responses (2) (Q&R2) a volume of hopefully five or more paperback volumes examining the kinds of serious questions people ask pastors and other counsellors…

  • These are quite different

    I recall some years ago the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, told reporters, "We cannot wait for politicians to sort things out, we have got to make a difference ourselves", at the conclusion of a two-day conference at Lambeth Palace on Christians in the Holy Land.

  • Adam Duker: Pursuing freedom and keeping faith amidst adversity

    Drinking an Ethiopian long black coffee in an Inner Sydney café hours before attending a wedding, Adam Duker recounts his fateful decision in 2016 to attend his brother’s wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • Arise Conference 2019: The Good Fight- Part 1

    Arise Conference 2019 is a significant one as this year the conference multiplied to two cities. The one I attended in Wellington was where past conferences have been held since 2008 and the other was for the first time in Christchurch.

  • Confession – historical theological term

     I have been thinking rather frequently about confessions of faith and what place, if any, they have in the lives of modern believers. Now, in a piece on confessions, I feel I should start with a confession of my own. I am a… Baptist.

  • Tips for making long-distance dating easier: Part 1

    Long-distance is tough. Nobody said it ain’t. There are some ways, however, to not make it completely suck. If you’re a long way away from your love, check out these tips from a veteran long-distancer about how to make things easier on yourself and your SO (significant other).

  • Woes of not burning off

    The Mackay Mayor and fellow Councillors met the hood burgers of Bloomsbury and Midge Point (Whitsundays mainland) last year, In that community discussion I provided photographs of the Laguna Quays Resort overgrown areas and asked about back-burning which has been in past years a normal part of prevention of bush fires.

  • Coping With Disappointment

    As part of a leadership organisation I’m involved with, the church I pastor recently hosted a mega-church pastor; you know the sort, a big name from the USA with a church of tens and tens of thousands spread over multiple campuses in multiple states of ‘Merica. He’s hugely sort after, very influential and from what I could ascertain after transporting him from his hotel to our church a couple of times, a good bloke.

  • Why I didn’t give up on hope

    I once held a very dim view of the word “hope”. It sounded wishy-washy to me. If hope was personified, it would be a weak-willed doormat with no opinions of its own.