What Yesterday’s Wars Teach Us About Today’s Battles We are all different and have divergent interests even when we are broadly interested in the same thing. I am a bit of a war history buff myself and have been interested in battles in air, land and sea since I was a child. I have Read More
The other day I was reading Psalm 40 in my morning devotional time. As I was reading, the words came to mind of a song we used to sing with the students at chapel in my days as a Christian school principal. The locally written original song, Out of the Clay*, was an exact quote Read More
I watched some of the Sir David Attenborough series Seven Worlds, One Planet. I don’t watch a lot of television so I was amazed by the imagery, but I was also concerned by the message. Now I don’t want to get into the argument about whether global warming is real or not. What I Read More
A while ago I had an instance of helping an older man in distress. I was coming out of Bunnings when the man next to me couldn’t start his car so he asked if I would jump start his vehicle. He thought he had a flat battery and he went on to tell me this Read More
Today’s guest writer is Mark Beale who is priest in charge at St Alban the Martyr, Balmoral, Auckland. Prior to this he was minister of St Elizabeth’s Anglican Church, Clendon, a South Auckland church which he planted 28 years earlier. Mark was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001 for Read More
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Join in the discussion 6:30am Friday mornings. I encourage you to take time aside with God, read the devotion and join us on Zoom on Friday morning to discuss it. If you haven’t attended the Zoom men’s group yet, I invite you to give it a go. I look forward to seeing you there. Zoom men’s Read More
Recently I included the 12 Step version of the Serenity Prayer in an email, and 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
From a Christian worldview we could easily think we are being marginalised by some powerful social voices which appear to be taking away free speech and religious freedom. It is easy to focus on what we perceive we have lost. Sadly, in most of the contentious issues the horse seems to have bolted, but what Read More
I have read several books recently and two of them ended with the concept of spiritual fathering or mentoring. Back in the recesses of my mind I remembered some great teaching from the early years of Promise Keepers by Howard G. Hendricks. I would like to share it with you because I believe it is Read More