For the last few months, it seems as if the world has been turned upside down by a Bro Club… READ MORE
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My favourite ever church musician was Barry the saxophonist. Everybody loved Barry but not everybody loved Barry’s saxophone playing, especially… READ MORE
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I’ve waited a few weeks just to make sure the sky doesn’t fall in and precipitous slide into the theological… READ MORE
In my last pastorate I developed a weekly tradition with my colleague – we would take detailed notes of each… READ MORE
Sarah Catherine Martin, the daughter of a baronet wrote a nursery rhyme which went on to have legs of its… READ MORE
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” said JFK. That in a nutshell… READ MORE
In order to work their way around the new Fair Work legislation protecting pastors, the framers of the new Spiritual… READ MORE
“When the work of shepherding leads us to pride, judgment, superiority, or deception, we have forgotten that we are a lamb. A shepherd who is not first a lamb is a dangerous shepherd and has ceased to follow the Good Shepherd. Our primary identity in life, if we are to be eternal value to the Father, is not that of a shepherd but that of a lamb.”
Diane Langberg – Redeeming Power – Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church
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