After delivering a gripping and powerful teaching, the preacher made a call for people to come forward for prayer. The pastor stepped down into the gathered crowd and began praying for people. He passed quickly between the different ones and prayed with ferver. He came upon a man who asked, “Can you pray for my…
Whenever I share this story I have to use all my might to stop bursting into tears. After I saw the film, “Saving Private Ryan“, I was weeping for a few days. The film was good… but through it I had made a profound discovery. It was this discovery that still brings tears to my…
Being in the era of microwaves, fast food, quick service, express lanes, etc., consumerism has created the demand for everything to be done quicker, faster, now! Quality is sometimes sacrificed to meet the demand to deliver quicker. Businesses rise and fall based on their ability to deliver now days… once it was based upon the…
The increasing intensity of earthquakes literally shake our world. The recent Chilean 8.8 Quake and the 9.1 Sumatran Quake in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami have both impacted the Earth’s rotation and shifted it’s axis. These small shifts in the axis may seem insignificant in themselves but the implications to the world’s weather…
Friday night was the end of the week. My mum always prepared and cooked great meals. But this was Friday night! Take-away was the highlight each fortnight. Take-away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonald’s , KFC, Subway or Nandos. Just good old, plain fish and chips. And our shop was…
Freeways get upgraded and are constantly changing to accommodate the burgeoning population of Melbourne. I haven’t been through the maze of reconstruction between the Bolte Bridge and Montague Street until recently. As I returned from the airport after dropping a friend off, and chatting with my wife, as one does, the familiar road seem to…
A new year arrives. We reflect upon that which has passed. We rejoice in our victories but yearn to change our failings. It’s a time when we tend to make new year resolutions but miss many in our lifestyle at the turn of next year. However… Change must become a lifestyle and Failure remain as…
The fleeting thoughts of did-I-fit-everything-in-the-car and did-I-forget-something jitters, as you reverse out the driveway, pass swiftly as you embark on that getaway camping holiday. The traffic, the impatience, the stress of that slow driver and caravans that clog the road to your relaxation destination. You arrive, the friends arrive, and the big unpack begins. Everything…
Coming out of the underground railway, Parliament Station in Melbourne, I would walk the few streets to my workplace. Every morning I passed a bus shelter commandeered by a derelict who was sleeping on a bench seat and covered in newspapers for warmth. If you entered the shelter, the smell was overwhelming. The years of…