A Wounded Identity.

So I was reading the strange, super short ending of Marks’ gospel recently: Mark 16:1-8. Have you read this before? Serriously, have a read and imagine it’s all you’ve got for a second. What if Mark was the only gospel you had to read? For many, this may well have been the case. The date […]

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Father’s Day ’21, Letting Go.

Mark 1:16-20 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him. 19 When he had gone a little farther, he […]

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On returning to the blog.

Perhaps no one will read this, and that is ok. It is ok because it was never really about getting a huge following of readers. It was however about two things. First and on the more surface level it was about developing the ‘gift’ of writing. But secondly and more deeply, I realised that writing […]

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Matters of the Kingdom.

What follows is a sermon I preached at Waratah Church on the 14-06-2020 Well, there are about 1000 things I’d rather be preaching on this morning, but as I sat there over the last two weeks listening to Steve speak on the topic of biblical peacemaking I found it almost ironic that at the very […]

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