I wrote this week’s pastor’s column for The Border Watch, Mount Gambier’s local newspaper: The recent cancellation of our WIN television news was distressing on a couple of levels. The abrupt and unpublicised manner of the decision’s implementation seems to indicate little more than a shocking contempt for our local community by the WIN network, …

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The Gospel frees us from surrounding ourselves with people just like us. It also helps us think about what church we should go to on the basis of opportunity to serve rather than the basis of what I think I need. From Michael Horton’s The Gospel Driven Life. ht & ht The last thing we …

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Greg Lucas has written many encouraging and touching reflections about being a father to Jake, his profoundly disabled son (now aged 18). None have been more poignant than this. My face seems to be scarred these days with the dried and salty tear tracks of weary frustration. I cry more than people know—more than a …

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