Holy Noticing

Several years ago, a photo taken by Eric Smith, went viral. He took six shots showing a female humpback and her calf, surfacing two feet away, but a man was glued to his phone in every single shot even when three other people on his boat were all excitedly looking...

Gratefulness in the slums of India

Some years ago I led a team to provide basic health care and whatever practical assistance within our means to a slum in India for several weeks. Just before Christmas, we organised a ‘party’ for the community. We preached the gospel and gave away presents to the...

Watch your life and doctrine

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers (1 Timothy 4:16) In Christendom, there has always been a tension between the importance of ‘orthopraxy’ (life) and ‘orthodoxy (doctrine/teaching)....

All for one and one for all

“Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind” (Ecclesiastes 4:4-5) According to a new survey conducted in June by ‘Finder’, Australia’s most visited comparison website, Aussies...

Is Anything To Hard For Me? (Isaiah 32:27b)

Ever doubted God and His promises? Of course you have! The prophet Jeremiah was no exception. When God told him through a prophetic act that life would return to normal in Jerusalem, it would seem he doubted. This promise comes against the backdrop of Jerusalem under...