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My Friends’ Dads Are Dying. So What Are We Learning From It?

It’s six years ago today since I conducted my father’s funeral. A bittersweet experience to be sure.

I’d just settled into the plane for the five hour flight back home across this great brown land called Australia, and I was tired.

I had the sweet opportunity to have a long chat with a “baby Christian” the other week at a church gathering. Continue reading “Okay, So it’s a Secular Age – But Jesus is Still Working”

Hey Christian, are you in danger of quiet quitting your faith? You know what quiet quitting is, don’t you? Continue reading “Hey Christian, Don’t ‘Quiet Quit’ Your Faith”

It was one of those serendipitous moments. There, advertised on the Facebook page of a friend from my old days at Fremantle Assemblies of God church in the mid 1980s, was the kitchen table and chair set we had been looking for. Continue reading “John and Amy’s Kitchen Table – And What it Says About Worship”

If TikTok says it’s a thing, it’s a thing. So the phenomenon known as “quiet quitting” is a thing. Continue reading “Are You One of the Quiet Quitters?”

There’s a lot going on in our society around identity at the moment. I only have to say the words “Manly Sea Eagles” and you’ll get it. Continue reading “Society is Suffering A Case of Mistaken Identity”

Mind blown! The pictures coming from NASA’s James Webb telescope are incredible. Continue reading “Has the Universe Outgrown God?”