Using Sport For The Glory of God

Using Sport For The Glory of God

Fireworks explode, music rings out, a huge torch is lit and thousands of athletes and hundreds of flags flood the stadium heralding the start of another Olympic games – games which in their modern form have been going since 1896..

  • Living on a prayer

    Prayer. It’s our hotline to heaven, our time with our Creator, and a one of the most vital parts of our lives as Christians.

  • On hope—it’s everywhere

    You might say that now is a better time than any to pursue hope, to find hope, to desperately reach your hand out and grab hold of hope. But once we overcome this current season, you might be disappointed to find that life in all its ordinariness also needs hope.

  • Digital Transformation of the Church? Why COVID19 has been good for the church

    Over the years, the church has transformed in many ways, when we think back to the early church, we don’t necessarily see what we know of as church today. The thing about incremental change is that it allows people to adjust. Often the changes have been so subtle that one can barely notice.

  • Remembering Dr Mark Tronson – a man of God

    I recently had the honour at speaking at Reverend Doctor Mark Tronson’s memorial service. This is what I relayed.

  • What’s your faith?

    The past several weeks I have moved from my suburban home in New Zealand to a cabin in the woods of Muskoka, Canada.

  • The first Nurse

    In my earliest memories, you were someone who cared for and fixed broken people. 

  • Heart Treasure

    In the story of Jacob and Esau in Genesis chapter 25, verses 27-34, we learn about where our treasure lies.

  • Changes and chances

    There’s some wonderful treasures to be found in the old Church of England Book of Common Prayer from 1662. It is not used much in Australia these days except for the odd service here and there.

  • Mark, my friend

    When Mark Tronson turned up at Warwick Rodeo in 1984 with a pair of sunglasses worn over the top of his normal glasses, he didn’t make a great impression on the rodeo people.

  • Jesus, Almost a Marvel Comics Character.

    Jesus was almost a character in Marvel comics. I am not lying here. Go search marvel.com for the character named ‘A Friend’.

  • Jesus, Take the Wheel

    This article has no Scripture. Not because it does not matter (it does), but because this issue should be so straight forward, it needs no out of context Scripture.