Putting the Record Straight Last week Joseph came and told us about Jesus’ birth. This week Mary came to put the record straight! (You know how we guys leave some of the details out) The Basics! This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday [...]
Title Max on Life Author Max Lucado Summary This book is presented as Max answering “Today’s Questions” with Biblical and inspiring answers. Max is an entertaining writer with a gift for explaining complex theological truths in simple stories. I was hopeful that his answers to people’s questions would tap into this special talent. My Reaction [...]
Title Pujols: More Than The Game Author Scott Lamb & Tim Ellsworth Summary This book does a great job in covering the Albert Pujols story. From the very complete statistics that need to be present in any baseball story right through to the stories about his private life. From the massive numbers he regularly puts [...]
We Had A Visitor! Yep… Joseph turned up to tell us a little about how he felt about becoming the Father of the Son of God. It’s pretty hard to make a Bible study out of it so I’ll just give you the major thing that struck me about him. He Was Obedient to God [...]
Big Idea God tells us when we live together in unity He gives us his blessing. The Basics! This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday prior. Date of Message: 27 November 2011 Title: Unity Speaker: Raewyn Gardner Passage: Psalm 133 Peanuts In a [...]
A Scary Thought Where we place ourselves in the stories we hear about the Kingdom of God sometimes shows us to have a sense of entitlement instead of an attitude of thankfulness! The Basics! This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday prior. Date [...]
This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday prior. Date of Message: 30 October 2011 Title: It’s Our Calling Speaker: Raewyn Gardner Passage: 2 Timothy 2:3-4 William Booth said And, in his last public address, It’s Our Calling We’re an Army … The Salvation [...]
This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday prior. Date of Message: 23 October 2011 Title: Others Speaker: Paul Gardner Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 There are many stories from Salvation Army history where salvationists have put others before themselves but none more so than [...]
This is a weekly Bible study from The Salvation Army Napier based on the message given on the Sunday prior. Date of Message: 16 October 2011 Title: Eradicating Poverty and Injustice Speaker: Raewyn Gardner Passage: Matthew 25:31-45 A Great History The Salvation Army have a great history in the area of social reform. There are [...]
1 John 5:1-5[tags]1 John 5:1-5[/tags] We are saved by faith in Jesus[tags]Jesus[/tags]! We have the Holy Spirit[tags]Holy Spirit[/tags] to be with us as we live! We are promised victory[tags]victory[/tags]! Then why do we not believe that Jesus can make us victorious over sin[tags]sin[/tags]? “For every child of God[tags]God[/tags] defeats this evil[tags]evil[/tags] world by trusting Christ[tags]Christ[/tags] [...]
Raewyn and I sat under some amazing teaching from Lyndon Buckingham today. I’d love to say it was a nice time, but actually it was really challenging. First question: What do you understand about Jesus? Huh? What a dumb question… We’re all theologically sound. We all understand, (well, as much as one can understand the [...]
Becki recently offered up “5 Things New Leaders Should Know” and I recommend you read her post as her 5 points are definitely worth taking on board. Instead of commenting on them, I’m bringing up the 5 most important things I’ve learned about leadership over recent years. Some of my points overlap Becki’s and some [...]
Photo by JackBrodus Sometimes I feel like I’ve arrived on earth having spent my formative years being brought up by Martians on a world where things were possible simply because everyone already did those things. And now I’m on earth wanting to do things only to be told, “That won’t work?” or “I’ve never seen [...]
eProductivity and GTD have allowed me to be productive, productive to a degree I would never have thought possible in the past. This though, is not the most amazing thing. The truly beautiful aspect of this journey has been its simplicity. I suspected before I started that this could quickly go the way of my [...]
My reader (actually I do have more than one, thanks Mum and Dad!) will have noted that I haven’t posted for a few days and maybe they’ve wondered at my productivity of late… Things have been frantic this week and I feel the need to openly express my feelings to both David Allen, the “inventor” [...]