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Craig Groeschel: 'The biggest enemy of faith is the familiar'

Craig Groeschel: 'The biggest enemy of faith is the familiar'

The atmosphere was electric during the first night of Hillsong\'s No Other Name conference on Thursday – featuring an astronaut flying through the air in a harness and head-banging during worship, over 10,000 people gathered together in the 02 Arena in London..

  • Big Art in Melbourne and Midge Point – both Basil Sellers supported

    Basil Sellers $100,000 Sport-Art Prize - "Big Art" in Melbourne has its grand opening tonight "invitation only" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art (Melbourne University) and the Basil Sellers $2000 Midge Point Art Prize - "Rural Coastal Art" grand opening tomorrow at The Point Tavern.

  • Gavin Lawrie's story: an Australian Panellist in the young writer program

    Today I present a profile of one of my Panellists (who, as a group, help me with various aspects of mentoring the young writers) as a build-up to the young writers Aust / NZ annual conference on Saturday 13 September. Gavin Lawrie is a retired Barrister and Solicitor and these are his own words.

  • Former Compassion sponsored child to share his journey of triumph over poverty

    A former sponsored child of international Christian ministry, Compassion, will tour Australia to share his story of overcoming poverty in Uganda.

  • Research illustrates the value to our well-being of enjoying a lovely view

    A recent article in The Guardian illustrates the value of to our well-being of enjoying a lovely view and this is in line with Well-Being Australia\'s Laguna Quays Respite facility for missionaries and their recuperation on the Whitsundays.

  • Drama with timetables for interurban trains but not so inter-state

    For many years the drama of railway timetables was the bane of the railway commissioner\'s and State Governments as there was a shown need to illustrate that diesel was quicker than steam and electric was quicker than diesel.

  • Nelson Cook on 'difference makers'

    Nelson Cook who established Coaches of Influence 28 years ago in Los Angeles USA writes a monthly letter to the many coaches at professional, college and high school levels and the current correspondence touches the spot.

  • Deidre Tronson's story: A Panellist for the young writer program

    Today I present a profile of one of my Panellists (who, as a group, help me with various aspects of mentoring the young writers)as a build-up to the young writers Aust / NZ annual conference on Saturday 13 September. Dr Deidre Tronson is a retired academic chemist, and these are her own words.

  • Disparity between widows and widowers

    A phenomenon that is now all too common and can be seen in almost any supermarket across Australia are widowed men in their late fifties to late sixties with young Philippine wives starting new families. I acknowledge there may be older divorced men in this category (with never ending complications).

  • Walloping changes – just looks at these !

    Once upon a time when I was a teenager the more opulent amongst my parent\'s friends had a 35 mil camera which hung around one\'s neck like a trophy of excellence with the most astonishing configurations to set up the perfect pic. Today a better pixel quality photograph is available in digital form from your mobile phone kept in your top pocked.

  • Compass: Prime Ministers lead the way

    Recently the ABC Religious program Compass ran a two week documentary program on Australia\'s Prime Minister\'s religious affiliations and how that affected their politics.

  • It's an old story, the coach or a mature friend become the mentors as parents recognise this added value

    Mr Tony Dunkerley, now aged 70, is utilised as a consultant for our young writer conferences in both Australia and New Zealand. Fortunately for us, his expertise is in mentoring as he has been a national and state junior soccer coach all his life as well as holding positions such as President of Football Victoria and as the Commissioner for Junior Football.