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Success is…

Success is…

Have you ever felt success is an enemy in disguise? It can raise your expectations and then send you on your way, plummeting back down to earth. .

  • Don’t tell me what to do

    Just try asking for a child to put away their toys, or a teenager to get off their tablet, or an adult to stop smoking in the breezeway and you realise people don’t like to be told what to do.

  • Birthdays

    Australia celebrates Christmas Day on the 25 December and it may come as a surprise to many - this day highlights the ‘birthday’ of Jesus Christ in a manager.

  • Men were urged to settle in Brazil

    Well, this was a fascinating Sydney Morning Herald article well worthy of paying attention where a region well known for its beautiful women are desperate for men of marriageable age as there so very few of such men.

  • The horse and the chair

    U2’s latest album, Songs of Experience, includes a song titled, “Get Out of Your Own Way”. While listening closely to the creative lyrics I realised how relevant this concept is to my own life let alone the people around me.

  • When I talk about justice, they call me a leftie

    At the height of the Cold War, the Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop, Dom Helder Camara, said, “When I feed the poor they call me a saint; when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist” (

  • ScoMo: Our Pentecostal PM

    It is fair to say that Prime Minister Scott Morrison would not be the first Prime Minister we have ever had claiming to be a Christian.

  • Silent witness of the egg

    Which is the correct worldview - that God created everything or that mindless evolution explains everything? The ‘top down’ explanation or ‘bottom up’ mindset?  There isn’t a third understanding of our world…is there?

  • You won’t have eternal life in Heaven Part 2: the half-way home

    In my last article, dear Theophilus, I set out to explain that Christians will spend eternity in a perfected, glorified, physical New Creation, not heaven per se. The article explains that eventually, God will bring about a new creation where we dwell forever with Him, not as disembodied souls, but as physical beings.

  • Journals: 21st century Jordan riverbed rocks

    I have to admit, I never was and am still not a big fan of reading and writing. I scarcely read books and I scarcely write things for enjoyment.

  • The Pull

    Tony Blair, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, resigned from office on the 27th of June 2007. Toward the end of Blair’s 10 year career as prime minister, he received considerable political pressure to resign.

  • Self-talk

    Have you ever found yourself in a tough season? Perhaps it is here, when you find yourself telling yourself lines such as ‘You’re not good enough?’, ‘You can’t do this?’, ‘You’re not strong enough’, ‘I can’t finish’, ‘I can’t keep this up’ or even ‘Just give up’.