Photo caption: Paul Monahan prepares to get on the race track as one of the angels in the Motor Racing Men’s Group When things don’t end up the way you plan or expect that doesn’t always have to be a negative. I was talking to a friend who planned a men’s group around the Read More
In our preparation for Christmas, Auckland roads are fairly fully to say the least. People scurrying here and there, amongst them a group called “Grey Nomads”. This is a group I briefly joined the ranks of not so long ago. It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and Read More
We send you our Christmas blessings over this holiday period. We hope and trust that you will be able to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour with family and your church community. We encourage you to take the time to pause and reflect on the profoundly amazing event that happened 2000 years ago Read More
Mission statements and vision statements became all the rage in the management sector over the 2000’s. Everywhere you went there was a mission statement on the wall from hospitals, your local school and you could even read one standing in the queue at McDonalds. That is not as prevalent today as it was back then. However Read More
I was recently looking through the bookshelf at PK when I came across a book on Heroes of the Faith. I started to thumb through it and noticed many names I knew but also many names I didn’t. As I have mentioned previously, we are moving to a new community about 45 minutes from where Read More
As a family we are in the process of moving from one house to another, interestingly the new one is only two thirds of the size of the house we presently live in. This means we are going through all our possessions and making decisions about what to keep and what to let go of. Read More
This year has been an unexpected year of change and in some ways growth. COVID-19 has adversely affected most of us this year. I’m reminded about an article Pastor Gary Colville recently wrote for PK’s WiseChoices about Seasons of Life. [You can read Gary’s excellent article here.] He suggests that winter is a time where trees Read More
Working together as the body of Christ – When I first became a Christian there was a lot of talk about “Body Ministry” which I thought was a very odd concept. What does that mean I wondered? I learned later that it is about ministering to the Body of Christ, the wider Christian community. I Read More
I love it when my daily Bible readings reveal things that I may not have considered before. It is as though the scripture is opened up to reveal a new nuance on truth. I was reading Matthew 4 and the last verse in the chapter reads, “Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and Read More
I was reflecting on our recent Father’s Day and wondered how it originally came about. Apparently the first event that explicitly honoured fathers was a Sunday sermon that honoured 362 men who died in a mining accident in 1908 in Virginia. The first officially recognised Father’s Day was in Spokane Washington in 1910 initiated by Read More