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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

You only get a small dancing window

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Last Sunday, during church, it occurred to me that my dancing window has now closed. I was reminded of this as a couple of small children tw...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Quality over quantity comes at a cost

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I’m not massively attached to every word I write. I do write a fair few of them. I’d like to think that a decent slice of them are, at least...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Teaching losers

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Now, to be fair, the vast - VAST - majority of students I teach are wonderful. Truly. But, I also teach losers. Despite the instinct to want...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Transferring skills from the old gig

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Being the start of the new school year, and teaching three subjects for the first time - including one completely from scratch, I’ve been qu...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

When a book you’re not inspired by can still be useful

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I’m a book hoarder. My wife hates it. Consequently, I now have three book stashes until we have more space for the collection to be reunited...
Monday, January 15, 2024

The largest dating gamble in the church

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The minister’s kid. This is the largest dating gamble in the church. Why? Because, if it goes wrong…  You’re highly likely to lose the churc...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The joy and trials of starting something new

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The stereotype is that teachers do very little over the school holidays. This six week break will be anything but lazy for me. For, this upc...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

2023 Best of…

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2023 was… normal. No COVID. No study. Just a full year of teaching. Being a husband. Being a father. Probably, the highlight for me was bein...
Monday, December 25, 2023

You should preach the well-worn path at Christmas

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Yesterday I did a short kid’s talk in church about St Nicholas. It was nothing extraordinary, I’d used it in various other settings. In othe...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Our leadership demands shape those who are actually able to volunteer

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When you become an adult  the way you get involved in church has to change. You work full time. You may be married. You may have kids. You’v...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Why you need to do the busy work before finishing with the videos

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Anyone who has ever been a student will know, as a school semester winds down - especially in the final term - the teaching units usually co...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The loss which comes from now waking up for church

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In general, if you’re young and somewhat independent, the likelihood of you attending church in the evening increases. As the years pass by ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The necessary productivity of downtime

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Creating assessments. Marking assignments. Writing reports. Parent/teacher interviews. As a teacher, every year has its regular busy periods...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Christmas devotional

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Last week I wrote a contribution for the Advent resource the church I attend with my daughters is collating. In short, it’s  a  mash-up of a...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Should a healthy church expect a boomerang generation?

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I mentioned in this post that I returned to visit my home church a few weeks ago. Between the years of 2002 and 2016, the idea of returning...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

The kids ministry challenge Jesus asks of every congregation

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This morning in church I gave the congregation a challenge during the “kid’s talk.” I write “kid’s talk” because my speaking spot in church ...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

The continuing ministry of your first church

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A few weeks ago I went to a morning service of my home church. While this was the church I first attended, and held my first youth ministry ...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

How I will be explaining yesterday’s “No”

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As I anticipated in yesterday’s post about the referendum, the vote was decided in the negative. Having voted yes, I think it’s not the bes...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Why I will be voting yes

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Tomorrow, Australia has a referendum about the recognition of the indigenous people of the nation, voting to include them in the constitutio...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Why you should do your private business in public

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Now that I’m back in the country, I still have some work to do before the next term kicks off. Just like when I was in ministry, as a teache...