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All eyes on King Cadel

All eyes on King Cadel

Even if you\'re not a huge fan of road cycling, it\'s been hard to miss the triumph of Australia\'s Cadel Evans in the Tour de France. .

  • Solomon Islands - my short mission

    In July 2010, my son (age 9 at the time) and I had the privilege of a short-term mission trip to the Solomon Islands. My reason for this trip was to open our eyes to the culture and lifestyle of a \"developing nation\".

  • 1956 magazine's glossy photo - Dame Margot Fonteyn

    My late mother (1920-1995) kept many letters from the 1930s, newspaper cuttings from the same era, and many post-war glossy magazines from both England and Australia.

  • Churches and Technology. Open Source and the Church

    What do technology companies like Google, Facebook, IBM, Twitter, Amazon, and LinkedIn have in common? They all have core systems that must be very high quality, reliable and cost effective in order to service their world wide customers.

  • The Missing Piece

    A jigsaw puzzle is never complete without all the pieces. I remember as a child, laying all the jigsaw puzzle pieces on a table and then I would try and figure out which piece goes where. It could be quite challenging sometimes especially with those 1000-2000 piece puzzles. I knew that the pieces could only fit in one way – it didn't matter what I thought – the design of the puzzle demands that the pieces only fit in that specific way.

  • 1949 Mackay Mercury Year Round Calendar

    Rifling through the family archive air tight chest recently I came across the full double centre page of the Mackay Mercury\'s 1949 Year Calendar and my mind wandered back to my parents\' life at that time.

  • How I met my father-in-law

    I should probably feel bad about the amount of pain the Lord put my father-in-law through in order to give me his daughter, but the reality is that his pain has become one of my happiest testimonies! A few years ago I met my wife, Sylvia, on a short term mission trip to Zambia. She was the 2nd grade teacher at a community school in a compound (suburb) called Twapia.

  • Fashion: what we adopt when we don't know who we are

    I think it was somewhere between the purple jeans, orange top, and silver shoe that I was pulling on, that I paused and thought, 'Ok this has got to stop'. Despite the fact that the outfit was unerringly on-trend – or maybe because of it – I had cause for question.

  • Junior

    Junior passed away at 14 after he and seven of his family piled into a ute driven by a 13 year old cousin and crashed into a tree on the way to a local lake.

  • MUSIC: Once more: with feeling

    I love music. I listen to it, I compose it, I study it, I use it to wind-down, to stir myself up, to think and to worship; generally I\'m either making music or listening to it. Often I bring my guitar with me to the dinner table; and yes, I have even been known to play my guitar when at the bathroom. When you gotta play, you gotta play; and when you gotta go, you gotta go – so why not play while going? Yes, men can multitask…

  • Is technology making us lonely?

    Recent advances in technology astound me. Current mobile phone technology allows you to upload photos to your Facebook page, browse the internet, and store and play your favourite music anywhere. The downloadable phone applications that are available are endless and they enable you to do anything from determine the location of the nearest Police breath-test, to track vital baby information (such as when their next breastfeed is due and from what breast!).

  • Christmas has a side to it that looks beyond the glitter

    Another year is just about over and I hope that you have had many more blessings than disappointments. We just wrapped up our Young adults Cell Group for this year and, like every year, we finish off by having a night dedicated to writing encouraging words to one another. The main purpose is so when you are going through times of hurting or sadness, you can whip out your little book of love and read encouraging words from people that love you.