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“• Jesus never asked you to worship only on Sundays. His disciples worshipped daily, broke bread from house to house and the Lord added to the church daily and the churches were planted daily. ( Acts 2: 46-47; 16: 5; Heb. 3: 13)
• Jesus did not say that you appoint qualified professional pastors. He gave […]

A great quote by Jim Hamilton:
“Many pastors are a threat to their churches because they show from what they say and do that they do not understand what Christianity is. They think Christianity is the best form of therapy. They think Christianity is about self-help. They think Christianity is about better marriages, better parent-child relations, […]

The following execllent link was sent to me by a contact within Hillsong. “SPIRITUAL ABUSE WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: THE DAMAGE IT DOES AND HOW TO AID IN THE RECOVERY PROCESS” The paper was prepared for a course on Counselling the Abused. I have read […]

An excellent article in the age today on the plight of refugees. I am highlighting the bits that resonanted with me strongly. I just feel a great pain about this whole situation and Australia’s treatment of the “least of these”.
“ALTHOUGH there is wide acceptance in the community of John Howard’s lack of integrity, there is […]

We have been having problems with comment registration which is a total pain as it is very effective at accomplishing a couple of things that we really need to.  However, due to problems with users being unable to log in etc we are going to suspend required registration until we can find a better way.  […]

I read this quote in the introduction to Steve Chalke’s faithworks - stories of hope.
“Bishop Leslie Newbigin once wrote:
Christian programmes for justice and compassion severed from their proper roots in the liturgical and sacramental life of the congregation lose their character as signs of the presence of Christ, and risk becoming mere crusades, fuelled by […]

Tony Abbott today takes time out today from responding the 25 to 50 media inquiries his office receives daily to do something that is really important - write an opinion piece about how people should stop picking on him for being Christian.  As usual it is a vast conspiracy from the Left-liberal media to cast […]

This is so cool.  I listened to a full version of one of these today that a colleague’s child had received for a gift and I want to get one.

This is actually last week’s kaleo reading which I am catching up on so I don’t feel like a big goof at my kaleo group meeting tomorrow.  Will post this week’s reading in the next couple of days.  I have highlighted a couple of lines that jump out at me, and my brainstorming initial reactions […]