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Queensland floods brings out the best!

Disaster! Floods in Queensland covering an area the size of New South Wales, or for my American friends, the size of Texas. Devastation at every turn. Houses inundated with muddy water and debris. Ruin. Heart breaking. And yet in the midst of the heartache flows the coping mechanism, humour. Good old aussie humour. Even in [...]

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Marketplace Purity

Going to market. They are the same the world over. It is interesting to see the alternative lifestyles and ideas that thrive in this place. You have all sorts selling everything imaginable. Some treasures and some junk – what captures one repulses another. But a marketplace is a pure form of business that competes on [...]

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Hospitality is a gift.

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Have you ever noticed when you drop in on family how accommodating they are? I know we expect it, but have you ever considered just how special it is? You arrive and interrupt routines, invade their environment, rearrange plans and yet, somehow, grace prevails. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 1 Peter 4:9 Why [...]

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Gone Fishin’

It’s the crack of dawn and we wake in anticipation – we’re goin’ fishin’… Jesus called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “No,” they answered. He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in [...]

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What is valuable?

I hadn’t seen my Mum & Dad in 5 years. We talk on the phone but we just haven’t seen them because they live 2000km away and are of a generation that doesn’t have confidence in computers, Internet and pose a blank look when you mention words like Skype. When I saw Mum & Dad, [...]

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