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At the Open Baptists Gathering three weeks ago, our speaker, Steve Frost, the founder and director of Horizons Family Law Centre, told a story about walking through Parramatta Square, the revamped city centre of Paramatta, where there are usually various people handing out leaflets and being attracted to one because, Read more…

Fairly early on in my relationship with Aron I worked out he was a keeper. I don’t mean that he was worth keeping (though that’s definitely true) but that he was someone who kept – who keeps – everything! Everything! He still owns, I think, every pair of socks he Read more…

Every now and then, when I go on a long walk or a hike – probably because I am not the fittest person in the world – it is good to stop, catch my breath and look back at how far I’ve come, and the same is true of this Read more…

Last Wednesday was ‘dirt on the face’ day! That is how Lucy Gledhill’s nephews, who used to attend a Catholic school refer to Ash Wednesday and I like it! Ash Wednesday marks, for many Christians in many church traditions, the beginning of Lent, a season of grief (‘bright sadness’ the Read more…

Introduction I spoke about Sarah’s book and our journey as a church. I liked the chapter on going slow but it didn’t quite work for me, but I liked the notion and the importance of giving time and intentionality to the work of the spirit in our lives. Provided a Read more…

I have an uncle who, many years ago, boarded a flight in Sydney headed for a work conference in Europe, and after he was seated one of the flight attendants stopped and said to him, “Are you OK? You don’t look very well.” “Oh. I’m fine,” said my uncle. “Totally Read more…

We have just begun a series based on Sarah Bessey’s, Field Notes for the Wilderness, a book which explores some of the practices that may sustain us in the journey of faith. And in chapter 5, the practice Bessey speaks about is “cultivating hope on purpose” (which after the week Read more…

Have you ever been lost? It’s not fun, is it! Don’t laugh, but just after we moved to Canberra, I, with three-year-old Zach in tow, got completely and utterly lost in the Canberra Centre carpark. I know it’s not that big, but I went out the wrong exit into the Read more…

It was a busy week this week thanks to Kids@CanBap so I reached into the sermon back catalogue and what came to hand was my sermon on Luke 4 …named after one of my favourite Christmas holiday films – Love Actually! (Now I recognise that Love Actually is a film Read more…

I sound like Tom Gleeson from Hard Quiz because this week I have really been getting into the song (in case you haven’t noticed) – The Twelve Days of Christmas! It is a song about a true love who gives – not just Christmas present (take note, Aron) – but Read more…