At Tangent tonight we talked about the Jesus Creed. The Jesus Creed is a book written by Scott McKnight. When asked by an expert in the law where to begin with spiritual formation. Jesus answers by giving what Scott McKnight calls the Jesus creed. The Jesus creed defines how spiritual formation is done Jesus style.
The […]

I am home today with a tummy bug. So I am sitting in bed reading blogs before having another nap. I just took a photo of our youngest puppy. He is curled up against my leg with his mushy face all squished against me. He is sleeping soundly. I can […]

Some pedantic people have mentioned that the name of the author is not shown in the individual post display. It displays if you look at the front page of the site but for those of you who read through rss readers it doesn’t. This means that the post author is a mystery.
Now as Dan would […]

We have been experiencing some technical difficulties this morning and signposts has been down.
All is back and running now.
Sorry that you have been deprived of your signposts addiction fix for so long

At Tangent the other night, we discussed the story of the Syrophoenecian woman as recorded in Mark.
For those that aren’t familiar with the passage, it tells the story of a moment when Jesus was trying to get just a few minutes by himself and was interrupted by a gentile woman nattering on about Jesus curing […]

I have been reading an interesting book by Jeffrey Jones - traveling together - a guide for disciple-forming congregations. On the first page stands this confronting quote from Rufus Jones:
“We stand in a crisis and we can be bearers of the torch or we can carefully husband a little flame and keep it going […]

Earlier this year we started a soup kitchen at Northern. It is coordinated by Tim Jeffries and is staffed mainly by work for the dole participants. The focus of the work for the dole program is hospitality and so each wednesday they prepare yummy soup and bread or scones.
So far we have just been calling […]

Yesterday I attended and Phil conducted farewell and celebration services for my Gran, who died last week at the age of 92.
I shared part of the eulogy on behalf of the grandchildren and began with the words “I loved, we loved, our Gran.  And she loved us.”  And there were a lot of us to love.  She […]

This weekend, your intrepid hosts are off to chilly Warragul to take part in State Youth Games as part of Northern’s team.  That’s right.  We will be camping.  In tents.  In the freezing cold.
This year aunty Dan and uncle Phil have taken on the responsibility for feeding our team of munchkins as they compete against young […]

At our recent leadership group meeting (which for us is our key governance leadership body), I posed the question - what are we trying to do as a Church? We asked each member of the group to spend some time reflecting individually and writing down their responses. The only qualification I made was that I […]