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Does the dollar value of professional athletes add up?

Does the dollar value of professional athletes add up?

30 June, the end of the Australian financial year and there is no better time to discuss those top Australian cricketers annual income from all their sources including endorsements as it was recently reported that one of them has an annual worth including endorsements was in the millions of dollars. .

  • How do 'faith financed missionaries' get their money

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and his wife Delma have lived by \'faith financial support\' for 28 years, and they along with many other \'faith financed based\' mission people are constantly asked, \'Where does the money come from?\'

  • Our Children Under Siege

    Sadly, secular humanists seem to know what most believers don't know: we are in a war, and the long-term outcome must always be kept in view. And the real trophy of the culture wars is our children, and our grandchildren. Thus the secular left is working overtime on its long-range goals, and is especially targeting our children. Meanwhile, most of the church merely sleeps.

  • More Theological Revisionism

    Homosexual activists both within and without the church are seeking to rewrite the Bible to push their agenda. They use many ploys to convince us that the Bible has no problem with homosexuality, and that traditional understandings are simply mistaken.

  • It's not always as it seems

    Whoever said that Cricket is a reflection of life was not far off the mark says cricket chaplain of 26 years Mark Tronson. Since 1984 M V Tronson has been involved in cricket ministry, initially as the Australian Cricket Team chaplain for 17 years. He followed this with the Life After Cricket ministry, involving an editorial role within the Retired Australian Cricketers Bi-Annual Newsletter and (from 2007) incorporating the cricket fraternity into the athlete respite facility, \'Basil Sellers

  • Professionals have serious 'associated' stress issues

    It appears as though there are a whole range of occupations where the psychological stress of dealing with clients (people) have affected their own well-being. Mark Tronson the Well-Being Australia chairman, a Baptist minister says that this has been the situation for Ministers of Religion for as long as there have been congregation and it seems that now, other professions are realising that it is affecting their people as well.

  • The illogical…only applies to Christian things...

    Atheist Dr Richard Hawkins appeared on the ABC Television\'s Q&A and the final question related to Life After Death and Hawkins revealed his true set of values when in his response to the audience, with arms outstretched to this opulent western life style and its pleasures, "[Does it] get better than this?"

  • 'Gamaliel Ministry' is illumination for teenagers

    The philosophy of a ministry of young people visiting the elderly has been adopted by many different churches. The overarching concept, named \'Gamaliel Ministries\', was launched in 2007 and since then it has been implemented with variations of one kind or another.

  • It remains confusing to many

    What is the Church? This would have to be one of the most confusing questions ever in western Christendom according to Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and cricket chaplain.

  • A re-interpretation of Psalm 122 verse 6

    "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee". (KJV) is one of the most quoted verses in the entire Scriptures by those who have an interest in things associated with Israel.

  • I Am Amused, Therefore I Am

    In ancient Rome the masses were pacified with bread and circuses. Today in the West we find ourselves in the same mind-numbing and soul-destroying situation. Almost all Westerners have the basics: food, clothing and shelter. So now we spend much of our time on entertainment, amusement and trivial pursuits.

  • A new generation of cricketers, likewise evangelists

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and cricket chaplain is reminded of his theological college years 33 years ago when he attended a seminar on Industrial Chaplaincy run for theological students across the denominational divide by the InterChurch Trade and Industry Mission (ITIM).