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Cricket's fresh generation applies to Ministry

Cricket's fresh generation applies to Ministry

Cricket chaplain Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 31 years, says that the generational change occurring in Australian cricket is benefitting from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Cricket Centre of Excellence. He comments that this has a parallel in Christian ministry..

  • Turning Parents into Criminals

    A great way to turn most parents into criminals overnight would be to ban all corporal punishment in the home. Make smacking illegal, and most of the adult population would find themselves to be lawbreakers. That is the likely outcome of yet another call to ban all hitting of children.

  • Are Attitudes Taking a Turn for the Worse in Australian Evangelical Circles?

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 31 years and the cricket chaplain, suggests that in evangelical circles, attitudes have taken a turn for the worse.

  • Would $1,000,000 make your life better?

    Have you ever thought "If I only had $1,000,000 life would be soooo much better"? Or perhaps you may only need $100,000 or $10,000 for your problems to be resolved.

  • Warren and Obama: Strange Bedfellows

    It was recently announced that Barack Obama has asked megachurch pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration. Warren has accepted the invitation to deliver the Inaugural Invocation. He released a press statement saying this:

  • On Israel's Right to Self-Defence

    The mainstream media is up to its usual tricks: for three years now some 3,500 missiles have been fired by Hamas into Israeli territory. I don't seem to recall much of this reported by the MSM. Yet now that Israel is seeking to defend itself by taking out the Hamas militants, the media is all over this story.

  • New Year 2009: the Corner-shop Church

    NEW YEAR 2009 - Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 31 years, applauds the \'corner-shop church\' approach that employs outreach scenarios, not least sports ministries. In his view, the corner-shop church this will be one of the key methodologies involved a refreshing on Christian outreach throughout Australia in this new year, 2009.

  • Nothing Right about a Bill of Wrongs

    The Rudd Government has established a panel to conduct an inquiry into whether Australia should have a Bill of Rights. The panel will be chaired by Fr. Frank Brennan. The recently passed Victorian Bill of Rights seems to serve as a model of the proposed Federal version.

  • David Smethurst - World Mission

    Reverend Dr David Smethurst has concluded a three month world wide mission, in which he included Latvia, Ukraine, Scotland, England and Zambia.

  • Christmas is about Christ - Let it Remain so

    Christmas marks a mystical sea change in mankind\'s journey. It celebrates the birth of the man much of the world believes to be the son of God. Christmas is fundamentally important in many ways in nations in which the principal faith is Christianity. These are facts of life. So why do some Australians agonise over a religious festival that has been observed for 2000 years and try to minimise or even stop its observance?

  • Footplate Padre Rides with New Zealand Cousins

    Australian Footplate Padre Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 31 years, was recently in New Zealand on Mission and took the opportunity to meet locomotive enginemen in Dunedin who were working on the Taiera Gorge line.

  • AIS Basketballers Enjoy Respite

    The Australian Institute of Sport women\'s basketball squad visited the Well-Being Australia athlete respite facility, Basil Sellers Moruya, during the first week of December.