There’s a chemical smell that hits you on the way to the cancer center. Some bright spark of an architect put the building’s main vents just near the entrance doors. Every time you walk up the path, the smell of chemotherapy hits you. Once you’ve been to an oncology ward,
Here’s how we are going to pray for the families of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran at our church this Sunday. Feel free to use or adapt for your church context. We will finish our time of prayer by singing the song that Andrew and Myuran were singing as
Issue of the week Australia and New Zealand observed the centenary of the Gallipoli landing in Turkey on 25 April 1915, a date commemorated every year as ANZAC Day (ANZAC = Australian and New Zealand Army Corps). Of the various Christian reflections around the anniversary, Murray Campbell’s The Stupidity and Brilliance
The recent Nexus Conference on ‘Crucified Ministry’ left me with a notebook full of scribbled thoughts and insights from a richly stimulating and encouraging day. Over the next few days, as we post video of the three main morning addresses at the conference, I’ll be reflecting on a key point
In my last article, I outlined how a good agenda and minutes can make meetings a better investment of people’s time. The effectiveness of meetings can also be improved by adopting some basic facilitation techniques. These can also help to minimise non-creative conflict. There is nothing wrong with conflict per
If you visit GoThereFor then you almost certainly regard reading the Bible as an important activity. You are probably involved in helping other people read and understand it. You think that reading the Bible well matters. This is the first in a series of articles that will look at how
Issue of the week Book banning is always a worry! It’s so easily used to censor reasonable freedom of speech (which is why Christians should be slow to call for it). The web was set alight in Australia when the NSW Department of Education banned three books from use
Before entering Moore College, I worked for six years as a management consultant for the world’s largest management consulting organisation. Life was an endless series of meetings where time was very literally money. If you put six people in a meeting for two hours, you had just spent at least
Not all Christians have the same amount of time or inclination to read widely. So I’m trying to save pastors, elders and other interested Christians time by selecting a bunch of the best articles round the web each week. I’m doing it with a small bias towards stuff by
Grumpy Day is about learning to trust God when things go wrong. A beautifully illustrated book for young children. Size: 210x245mm, Pages: 24