Today’s guest author is Tak Bhana, senior pastor of Church Unlimited and popular PK keynote speaker. He shares the following significant message with our PK community. About forty years ago my nominally Hindu father was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given three weeks to live. That prognosis brought such grief and shock, but even Read More
It was possibly 15 years ago at a PK event that I was impacted by a 10-minute video that played during the conference after the morning break. I decided after watching that video that this would be my choice in the future if I faced a similar situation. Sometimes it is the effect of what Read More
If I am honest I have always desired to make my mark in the world. I guess in some ways we are all trying to achieve something to stand out, to create a legacy, change the world in some way. In fact in our modern age a whole industry of self-help schemes and coaching for Read More
What are the boundaries and acceptable behaviours we should have as a Christian man in the workplace? How many of us, when we look over our week, have inconsistent behaviours depending on our environment? A Sunday church behaviour, a Monday to Friday work behaviour, a home and family behaviour? Integrity is all about our character; Read More
Recently I included the 12 Step version of the Serenity Prayer in an article [here]; it started me thinking about the original version of Reinhold Niebuhr’s (1892-1971) prayer. It is stunning so I thought I would share it with you. God give us grace to accept with serenity things that cannot be changed, Courage to Read More
Above image: Men at the Mainland Men’s Event had the opportunity to play with a specially built Spud Gun! At the recent men’s breakfast in Ashburton PK’s Peter Goulter met Neil Pluck who attends a fellowship at Methven just inland from Ashburton. Neil talked about their fantastic annual men’s event, how they looked at what Read More
In this day and age we are bombarded with advertising of programmes or things that will make us fitter, healthier, richer, more productive, more successful in any number of places; on the sports field, at work and at home. I must say I am jaded when I read claims like that. You know as the Read More
My first mission trip was to India. There, standing on a busy, crowded street one day, God said to me, “You see a crowd but I see individuals and I know everyone by name, and I sent My Son to save them”. As I stood there, I realised that my perspective had changed and I Read More
Over the past five or so years one of the topics I have spoken about at PK events has been the “Third Age” where we look at preparing for and moving into retirement from work. The encouragement reflected in these seminars has been largely based on my journey to and into this season and watching Read More
Just stand! That sounds easy, however I have found it to be quite the opposite and sometimes it is an outright battle. I have been learning to stand on the Word of God. The Word of God is full of amazing promises. Some could say the promises seem too good to be true, but we Read More