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How to get your TV…faster

How to get your TV…faster

This is an invitation to you all – an open invitation to join me on a media fast. You can go all out with it (and if you do I take my hat off too you because you're better than me) or you can go not so all out. Most people can't live without their phones and it's good to have them, it also may be important to check your email daily but if you can limit on everything else that is the key. .

  • Community gardens

    Earlier this month I discovered the joy of a community garden. I live in a townhouse with my family and two dogs and our backyard doesn't really have the space to accommodate a vegetable garden. While our two dogs would probably dearly love the opportunity to spend the day digging in a vege patch while we're at work, I don't really like the idea of coming home to even more holes in the backyard to refill than what I already have.

  • Dance like an Egyptian

    I recently went on a two week tour of the Middle East, visiting many biblical sites and experiencing everything that these vastly different cultures had to offer. First we went to Dubai and got a taste for the modern ingenuity of man, tasting lavish riches in an extravagant desert oasis.

  • What Gangnam Style really means and a Christian response

    The music video has been viewed over 531 million times on YouTube. It seems the catchy beat and humorous dance moves of this hit Korean Pop song "Gangnam Style" has taken the world by storm.

  • Immigration: Adapting to Australia

    A year or two ago I wrote an article about challenges my wife and I face in a cross cultural marriage. As my primary language is English, and Sylvia\'s is Bemba, and we come from incredibly different backgrounds, communication, or rather miscommunication is a regular occurrence in our marital life.

  • Spying the favour of God

    12 spies went in, 12 spies came back out. 40 days is what it took for these 12 to scout. All agreed the land was good worthy of them all, but 10 were scared to take the land for surely they would fall.

  • Mission almost impossible: Revolutionise Christmas

    Can you remember all the gifts you got 10 years ago for Christmas, okay how about last year?

  • A lesson from Indonesia

    Have you ever done anything to hurt poor people? Most of us would probably say no. This eye-catching question from the book 'When helping hurts' caught my attention and led me to reflect on my own experiences. It took me back to Indonesia in 2009.

  • Let Your Light Shine

    My seven-year-old son recently brought me to tears. Although as toddlers, my children have brought me close to tears by using my brand new lipstick to draw pictures on the mirror, or painting the walls with nappy cream or pouring litres of milk on my white carpet, this time was different. These were tears that came from an old lesson being brought to modern times through the kindness of a little boy. It was a simple act of kindness but one that carried enormous power.

  • Something of Worth: The Need of Sacrifice

    One could argue that everything has a cost (or a price to pay and subsequent consequence), and in our world that truly appears to be the case. "There is no such thing as a free lunch", is a saying that illustrates this point. No matter what you get or what you do in this life there is a cost to it; it may just not be you paying for it.

  • Does the Bible really say God made childbirth painful?

    Have you ever heard of 'Eve's curse?' In relation to childbirth, this term is generally used in reference to God cursing Eve in Genesis 3:16, and thus women, with pain as they birth their offspring. Well if not, you have now.

  • The Cage We Chose

    It's October. Last October I tried something for the first time and this October and I'm doing it again. I'd had some conversations with guys at my work about health and detox and challenges, like trying to go a month without sugar to see what it felt like. Without much (read: any) previous interest in diet and exercise, I got thinking about all of it and came up with a challenge for myself.