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Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017 Best of...

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2017 has, numerically, been my least productive year of blogging, but there have been a few highlights. My most viewed posts were Is Your ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Why you should put a bunch of faces with a church notice

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Church notices are a nessesarily nuisance in churches. Hopefully, they are kept relevant and punchy in order no minimise the disruption of a...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

The divorce post

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Yesterday, after more than a year of separation, six months counselling, thrashing out a parenting agreement and letting lots of water go un...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Thanks for what I didn't do...

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ACTS - Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplementation. SPIT - Sorry, Please, I love you, Thanks. FULLTILT - Focus, Up, Lay it on th...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Does being small or fat affect youth ministers or teachers?

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While I'm no Goliath, I'm the average 6-foot, 70-kilo/130-pound guy. In high school, I was a shrimp - not truely hitting my growth...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Post-Plebiscite ponderings - The church

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The world didn't end. The sky didn't fall in. Armageddon wasn't unleashed. During the week the campaign for approving Sam...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Post-Plebiscite ponderings

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61-39... Close enough to the 60-40 I predicted last night. As of 10ish this morning, the results of the Same Sex Marriage plebiscite came ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Plebiscite Ponderings

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In around 10 hours Australia will have the result of the postal plebiscite concerning same sex marriage which, seemingly, as been going on.....
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Avoiding church nepotism

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In general, unless they turn into Satan-worshipping-hedonistic-prodigals, minister's kids are awesome. I've loved having minister...
Monday, November 6, 2017

The questions in a bible study everyone dreads, but needs to hear

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Aside from building community and "doing life" together, bible study should be about developing a fuller understand of the bible a...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Open invites to every event?

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I'm under the illusion that I've always, more or less, been a part of the "cool" group at church. Being on staff has usual...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Are periods or mental illness too offensive for Facebook?

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Last wast week I posted a Tiny Bible Bit, which you can read below and it was fairly popular, so Facebook told me, performing better that 95...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

What to do about the person who MUST answer every question

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Some people are super extroverted.  Few of them reside in churches.  But they do exist. And some people are super-charged bible study ex...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Celebrate the story of the church sleeper

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I've done it a few times. From the back of the church, I've seen the telltale head bobble. From the front of the servie, it hasn...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Should you utilise the church spy?

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During my ministry career I switched churches on three occasions.  Over the last two decades I've seen around a dozen ministry agents c...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Our problem is not the cost of living

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As a resident of Sydney, I live in one of the most expensive places on the entire globe. On top of that, I live in one of the wealthier part...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Mourning the hymn book

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It occurred to me last Sunday, now that I've moved away from my home denomination, that there will be something which, potentially, I...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

When and why to set things right once you've made a preaching mistake

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Preachers make mistakes in every sermon. Usually, they will be mistakes in delivery. Hopefully, on only the rarest of occasions, they make a...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

How we develop our theology and ethics

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With Australia currently going through the tribulations of a same sex marriage plebiscite, the topic is everywhere.  E-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

In the common shadows of the Reformation divide

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Last Sunday morning I went to the first communion of my niece. Accompanied by my five year old, I knew going in that things would be differe...