A secret of community?!
The secret of community found in a homeless counter-cultural group attending a funeral. Ever wondered about how the homeless survive, or don’t? Ever wondered what you could do to help?
What’s the fascination with bread?
At school, grade 3, I loved to play hooky. To me, it was more interesting to watch how the huge bakery, across the street from home, made bread. I had successfully concocted a tall story and the old baker fell for it. He let me follow him around as he loaded the big mixing bowls…
Narrow road, narrow gate…will you make it through?
There are some roads in outback Queensland that are long, very long, and straight. Where there are dangerous drops there are guard rails. Also where the shoulders are soft (dangerous to drive on because its so easy to loose control) there are warning signs. The sheep and cattle stations fence their properties and where the…
There is no excuse… now that I know!
How annoying! I was really ticked off. Getting a delivery of mulch dropped off on the nature strip makes sense. I have nowhere else to drop it off. If I drop it in my driveway it will stain the concrete. I can’t access any part of my property and have no spot to unload it,…
It’s a gift! Who would say no?!
One of the exciting things about Christianity is that God made the first move. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make the way for reconciliation between God and man. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in…
There is The Law, then there is Grace and Mercy.
Late one Sunday night, around 10:00pm, I dropped into Coles on the way home to pickup some milk. I was only to be there for a couple minutes. When I arrived, the darkened 400 car parking lot was empty, except for maybe 1 or 2 other cars. Coles had only one door open for entry…