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Audience of One – Empty your grandstands

Audience of One – Empty your grandstands

After the Autumn Break from school, our Youth spent the first week up in Katoomba for KYCK, the annual youth camp held at the Convention Centre in the heart of the Blue Mountains. .

  • Queen of the house. For such a time as this.

    Motherhood can be overwhelming. It can be all-consuming. It can feel like a never-ending mountain climb with small moments of joy. Especially with young, pre-school aged children.

  • Sociologists telling us that technology is making us blind to relationships

    In any major newspaper or serious magazine there are a rash of articles claiming that we as humans are losing our ability to communicate person to person, face to face, as a result of technology that enhances distant communication.

  • Moving home

    If you've ever moved house you might know this feeling. As you pack up your possessions into boxes, you suddenly realise that you own hundreds and hundreds of things. While you lived in your house they sat there, mostly marshaled off to the side of your room, functional things, fundamental items like tables and lamps.

  • 'That's what Jesus did, but I don't have to' - On Christianity and Justice

    Last week I sat down to a coffee with my closest friend who had travelled to visit me in Thailand where I have been residing for the last seven months. We have been friends for seven years and we share many things in common; a love for travel, a quirky sense of humour and a desire to help people.

  • Selfie sticks and bobble heads!

    So as an expat, living in the Philippines, it is not an unnatural occurrence to come upon a genuine 'WHAT THE' moment every now and then. You know those moments when something is just truly bizarre, that you literally stop in your tracks and go 'SERIOUSLY???'

  • Fairy tales

    Fairy tales, they have been with humanity for as long as we have been here. Mostly read to children but strangely written by adults, these stories have been a source of wonder and comfort to people the world over.

  • 'Finding God in the present moment'

    Once I saw a picture on Instagram of a bowl of half-eaten Granola, an opened Bible, a theology book, what looked like a philosophy book and a sleeping cat. The floral sofa was near the corner of a window; rays of autumn sunlight dancing their way into the room… the caption read 'enjoying the spiritual life; finding God.'

  • The fight for the final spots

    The Super Rugby season has one more week to go before the June internationals steal the show for a month, and I can't remember a season with such a close battle for the top six.

  • The living should take this to heart - Part 2

    During the season of Lent my first article on the reality of death was published. The issue was addressed through the text Ecclesiastes 7 verse 2. The challenge that came from this verse was that the living should take to heart wisdom that may be gleaned from the topic of death.

  • Hypocrisy, like the baby, has two faces

    Imagine if you're told the horrible news that the child in your womb will be born with a congenital disease in which they will be hideously deformed for life. The doctor wants you to abort. Heck, half the people you know want you to abort. But you have always been pro-life and going for the abortion solution would be going against your very conscience. So what would you do?

  • Encouragement to faithful pastors

    I often think about people who have influenced my life in a big way. One of the biggest influences is my current pastor, a man who has walked with me for many years.