Sometimes I look at my week and wonder how it ended up looking the way it does. Its funny how the things that matter most can seem invisible in our diaries. So how do we decide what gets included, what we say ‘yes’ to. I also wonder what my diary would like like if I [...]
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You would’ve heard the term “life can be taken for granted”. This is true in more ways than one. When I was younger, it was not uncommon for the word “life” to make it into virtually every church’s name. It was the thing to do. It represented a new time, where the church thrived from [...]
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In response to my recent post, Getting Traction, Ian asked: “How do you manage all the seemingly insignificant decisions you need to make and prioritise them well? It’s hard when you have 40 decisions that need to be made and then knowing where to begin first… Any ideas?” Yes. A couple of ideas, maybe even [...]
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I’m sure all of us at some point in time have taken the required 10 seconds out of our busy schedule to watch an Olympic men’s 100m sprint final. Olympic sprinters are all highly trained athletes striving for what many kinesiologists call “the Paxian ideal”: equal parts strength, speed, explosiveness, agility…and gold necklaces. These professional [...]
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Recently, while enjoying fish and chips at Manly beach in the winter sun, my wife and I had a flashback. Looking down the beach we could see Le Kiosk, the place where we celebrated our wedding reception. In the moment, my wife then told me that according to a “relationship expert” on the Morning Show [...]
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Our lives can be so filled and busy that our weeks blur past faster than we can comprehend. I was reading about the TED Talks that took place in Sydney recently. Apparently, one of the speakers, Nigel Marsh, who is an advertising “guru”, said this: “Certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being [...]
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The best way to learn to pray is by praying together. We encourage you to make time atleast once a week to meet early before work and pray. It’s a hard discipline, but as we gather together to centre our lives on what God is saying- learning to listen and engage with Him and eachother, [...]
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