The COVID pandemic has forced many of us into isolation for a long, long time.   The reality of our current situation has strictly limited the contact we have with others.   We make contactless payments at the shops.   We can pick up supplies at stores without making any contact with anyone.   Even McDonalds will drop off your burger and fries at your front door - all contactless.  But we are not meant to do life alone.   This...

The real push again this year is for you and I to join the frenzy!   The frenzy seems to begin earlier every year.   The main event was last week with a long list of retailers and brands offering discounts across technology, fashion, homewares, beauty and more.  There were 4,000 deals from more than 800 Australian and international brands.   This homegrown retail event is one of the biggest sales events of the year - Click Frenzy!   So...

There is an urgent need for us to raise up gospel workers in the CRCA.   In a previous blog I clearly outlined the need that exists.  To put it simply, over the next ten years we need to raise up 40 men to pastor our churches and to plant new churches in Australia.   Currently we have 42 ministers serving our churches.   Given these statistics where will these ministers come from?   How can we effectively raise up in...

Church is changing!   At least, church as you and I know it.   Or have known it.   As we draw close to the end of 2020 the fallout of the COVID pandemic has impacted churches, here in Australia and throughout the world.  The church as we know it at the end of 2020 is much different from the church as we knew it at the start of year.   Church in-person attendance was non-existent for months.   Where restrictions...

Our world needs prayer!   There is a cry for mercy in the midst of the COVID pandemic that God would bring healing and that the virus would end.   Our home church (Bray Park , QLD) and many other churches are teaching on the topic of prayer, calling people to a greater prayerfulness.  There is a sense of the urgency of prayer.  From the viruses, floods, and fires, to world unrest, economic instability, and political uncertainty --...