moving again!a move i should have made some time ago: http://stringsandfre tboards.wordpress.com/because i am no longer the angst-ridden, regretful, pained mr heathcliff.i embrace the beautiful s...
i couldnt help myself.im occasionally reminded, even at a mature twenty-five, how many rough edges i still have. i might no longer be the turbulent, petulant, selfish teenager, but we all have ...
dreams.whenever i talk to anyone about vision, regardless of their position or nature of ministry or context, i say one thing."dream big".i encourage, exhort, even pressure... to not limit wh...
"vision leaks".one of bill hybels idioms.i was listening to some sermons again, ones i had listened to only months ago. and i realised how much had slipped from my conscious and subcons...
"an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel".our problem, as christians, is that we believe that definition of mission. &...
i was 19 once.shocking, i know.once, i journalled things like this: "but the underlying problem is still there. i dont love myself. i cant accept myself for who i am. i cant for...
God works, on occasion, in fantastically ironic ways. a bloggable rant of sorts has been brewing in my mind for a while; a proud, proud, and undoubtedly cleverly-scripted flailing swipe at... w...
flinders hospital, being flinders hospital, has terrible parking for a facility that is honestly in the middle of not much. consequently, i park about 10 minutes away, across a busy highway- wh...
in church this morning. from the book of ephesians: "for we are Gods workmanship". workmanship, in the context of being created to do good things, to be positive, life-giving infl...
one of the many parts of my job i love is the moment of diagnosis. the thrill of marrying symptoms and anatomy and pathology. finding the what, the where, the how. a problem solved....
so... i dont have the right words to say. which would make this the first in a long time. no soppy lyrics, no elizabethan flourish, not even dodgy-rhyming poetry i briefly tried to write....
its possibly been the longest week of my life.in an hours time, itll be exactly 168 hours, or 7 days, since i landed in adelaide. 168 hours since i officially no longer lived in perth.now no lo...
in response to my dismay at staged professional wrestling on tv, a good friend once remarked:"of course its not real. its not even realistic. everyone knows that.its the reason anyone...
occassionally i come across an insight, one which bounces around somewhere in my subconscious for more than the obligatory few seconds.one such insight was that driving is an entirely communal activi...
typical first-world problem: i fly a lot for someone whose job does not at all involve travel.in a somewhat atypical year, punctuated by a trip to london sometime in the middle, i boarded and stowed ...
The Cult of Done ManifestoThere are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.There is no editing stage.Pretending yo...
i have a lot of clothes.occasionally, i dissolve into a three-minute episode of sheer panic at the thought of having to move interstate next year. its in these moments that i am most effective ...
ill be giving my last sermon (likely for some time) this sunday.realised just then that i never posted the link to my latest one on this... so here we go:http://equip.yokinebaptist. org/sermons/?sermo...
last night shift for a while... seven hours left.---this is why we keep routines, maintain discipline, and read devotions even when we dont really feel like it:mark 5:36b quotes Jesus saying, "do...
art is like...art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending. the risks are obvious; you may never get to the end of the sentence at all- or having gotten there, you may not have s...
i love... beautiful sunny mornings. i love white beaches with the feeling of sand sinking between my toes, and the blue ocean that seems to stretch out forever. i love my friends and my f...
one of the most beautiful truths in the Christian journey:"give us this day our daily bread".not more, not less. only what we need for today.its a recurring theme throughout Gods encounters w...
"have you lost your senses? after starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?"[galatians 3:3]because we make Christianity s...
"I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me." [galatians 2:20]perspective is a wonderful thing.
somewhere in the last few days, my words and eloquence deserted me. pity. i had an exquisite post lined up, but its been lost in the cavernous maze that is (at times) my mind. in chr...
my fifth flight in six days, and finally...a plane with a little tv in front of me,a seat i can actually sit in without feeling claustrophobic,and a brilliantly humourous captain making light of our ...
this is what you think about in seat 17d, high above the clouds returning from a whirlwind trip interstate:in an extraordinary turn of events and quirks (although youre reconsidering how random all t...
it was... a week filled with exciting developments, fascinating stories, and new resolutions. potentially, the most significant week in my career so far.and yet, my subconscious has fixed on so...
in the age of google and blogging, you have no idea how hard it is to source the original unadulterated version of a specific quote, unless its awfully well-known.this is (possibly approximatel...
i was never an apple fanatic, despite owning an iphone, a macbook and having all my music and podcasts tied into that grey box called itunes. the world lost a driven creative marketing genius i...
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