Hope no one’s worried that I’m going high church with the Advent themed posts. I simply like the biblical themes which are addressed at this time of year and believe they are a helpful balance to the generally frenetic and sentimentalised rush the 25th. Here’s an interesting on where Michael LeFebvre, a Presbyterian pastor, explains …
Offering all the usual sorts of caveats about first order issues, Daniel Darling writes about those situations where people don’t like something (of secondary importance) about the church to which they belong: This is what I tell people who tell me there is something about our church they don’t like or about their church they …
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 …
This week we’re putting together mgpc’s 2013 proposed ministry and mission plan and budget. I mentioned last year why it will be always be planned in deficit, because maintenance is death. But another concern is expressed in these points from a post by Thom Rainer which deals with the drift which all institutions and groups …
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