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Where there is light there is hope

Where there is light there is hope

I used to be incredibly afraid of the dark. So much so, that for years as a child I would need to have the lamp on all night while I slept and if anyone turned it off, I would become frighteningly scared of what I couldnot see..

  • Limitations, super heroes and doing less

    Are you trying to be super human?

  • The oppression and exaltation of women

    The temperature was 0oC, the floor earthen, and there in a dark recess of the brick hut, stood a middle-aged woman shivering in the freezing cold conditions.

  • Praise practice

    Whenever something bad happens, my knee-jerk reaction is to say, “Why, God?”

  • The Battle of Binh Ba

    The fiercest urban battle fought by the Australians in the Vietnam War occurred in June 1969 at the village of Binh Ba.

  • Testimony and evidence—an unpicking

    What roles do testimony and the argument for evidence play in Christian witness?

  • Tall Timber: Learn to be

    In my last article, Tall Timber: How do they survive? I talked about my recent visit to “Redwood Forest” near Warburton, just outside of Melbourne.

  • Evangelism is…slow

    Evangelism. A word that inspires a shudder in believer and non-believer alike. One, out of fear of becoming “that guy” in your friend group and for the other a fear of having to talk to “that guy” in your friend group. (shout out Sam Chan!)

  • Challenged - ‘woke’ put to the test

    Increasingly international courts and Australian situations have seen ‘woke’ challenged and overturned -  or -  aggressive activists were unable to follow through.

  • Contentment – the new health

    Let's be realistic – I need money to meet our family's grocery housekeeping expenses, our home living costs along with our ministry. I do not have very much of it having served as a faith financed missionary for 40 years but the people who financially support us have enough money to make gifting’s to us along with other missions.

  • Second-hand revelations

    As a kid it was always fun to use the phrase “Mum said” or “Dad told me” against your siblings to fool them into doing something that Mum definitely did not say and Dad absolutely didn’t tell you.

  • What is a disciple?

    What is a disciple?  It may seem like an elementary question, but,  it can clarify a great deal. The most basic questions are filled with profound truth.