For a second time a group from MGPC are traveling to Adelaide for a weekend visit to Para Hills Presbyterian. We’re convicted that healthy local churches are involved in the growth of other local churches, either through planting or nurturing and encouraging. By taking a group of MGPC members to Para Hills we aim to …
Every graveyard is a garden. What is sown in weakness will one day yield a harvest more amazing than any crop of plants. Christians look at graveyards not as places of decay and finality, but of hope and future glory. Mitch Case writes a beautiful exploration of this theme. The righteous who sleep in death …
Katy Perry’s pleasantly catchy empowerment anthem Roar continues to pop up around the place. In this video, patients and staff of Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in the US lip-sync the song. Touching, feel good and uplifting. You may need a tissue. Like me, you may wonder about the young lady in the tie-die purple T-shirt. …
Deb reminds us that qualified thankfulness may sound like true gratitude, but it’s really a poor substitute of watered-down complaining. ‘Well, it’s not been a great day, but at least I’m not starving and living in a cardboard shack.’ That’s not gratitude. It might be something you are glad about, and it might seem like …
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