In the last blog Why Mentoring, we looked at a number of good reasons to have mentoring. In this blog we get some feedback from three guys in ministry who are currently being mentored through Church2Church, from three different size churches of whom I asked three questions – it’s all …
The short answer is that the nature of ministry today means that you need someone to ask the question “How’s your soul?”[1] So what is it about the nature of ministry today that requires this? Many jobs these days involve long hours with blurred lines between the personal and professional …
Working in Ministry is such a great privilege with some wonderful moments. There are many opportunities to share God’s love with others and sit with people in the good and hard times of life. It can also be exhausting, and often trying to take your annual leave can be a …
A new start At the very end of 2017, Kath and I left our home and our family and drove one thousand kilometres to live in a new city, Brisbane, to start a new ministry called Church2Church at Creek Road Presbyterian Church. We left the loved, the familiar, the …
At times, our preaching of Paul’s letters tends to trend, even unintentionally, toward a doctrinal approach and as such lacks the personal drama of Paul’s own situation that I believe is woven throughout the letters.
Recently, we have probably heard the word ‘jubilee’ used in connection with Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, a celebration for her sixtieth year as Queen. The use of ‘jubilee’ in this context has little, if anything to do with the biblical idea of Jubilee, except as a marker of a …
Over the last year or so, the proposition that our post-Christian Australia has reached the cultural tipping point is beyond contradiction. The question of the moment is, how do we respond as the people of God and pastors of the people of God to that reality. The title of this …
A couple of weeks ago, my Dad asked me if I could tell him again what we’ll be doing in QLD with Church2Church. My guess is you might share his question, so I thought I’d use this post to try to explain what Kath and I will be doing up …
