Zac Hicks provides an interesting post which contrasts the difference between a calendar oriented sense of time and a biblical worship-oriented sense of time. Hicks folds in the cyclical observances which Jesus observed as grounds for recognising the benefit of recognising some sort of ‘church year’. Helpfully, he then points out the difference between Jesus’ …

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When the black dog starts barking on Mondays these are among the notes he strikes. Ron Edmondson warns against trying to eliminate risk from leadership as a primary motivation for the following reasons: Here’s what you have to accept: It will be expensive – You’ll have to eliminate every thing which could go wrong. That …

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On Sunday 24, 2002, at the invitation of the Selection Committee, I led two services here at Mount Gambier Presbyterian. We left five children behind and drove over; I still remember the vista as we approached the downward descent into Coleraine and the change to verdant fields. In typical Mount Gambier fashion, the skies that …

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