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The discovery of your roots in the past, gives meaning to the present and hope for the future. When I was a boy growing up in Box Hill, Victoria, my widowed mother was concerned that I could defend myself against rough boys like the fighting O’Gradys next door. So I went to boxing and [...]

Dr Nikolay Nikandrov, an educationalist without peer in Russia, (Google his name) recently told Russian University Chancellors of the importance of universities including teaching the Bible in their courses. He told them, “You cannot call a person educated who does not know the Bible.” Can you imagine any leading educator saying that at such a conference in Australia?

It was an early crisp morning on January 17th this year. About three hundred people gathered on a railway bridge looking down on the railway tracks. A wave of 83 roses fell to the tracks. People in tears hugged each other. On the Bold Street Bridge, an attractive young mother hugged a large policeman, recently retired.
Thirty years earlier, we can all remember where we were when we heard that morning that a train from the Blue Mountains had crashed at Granville, in western Sydney. But this was no ordinary crash. It had crashed into the staunchions that held up the 170 tonne concrete road bridge which were brought down crushing three carriages packed with commuters on their way to work.

You cannot take a picture of the mission of the church, unless it is a moving picture. Missions must always be in action.

Christians are to worship God, witness to His Gospel of salvation, serve the needs of hurting people, bring comfort to broken hearts, release to the captives and hope to the despairing. We [...]

On Boxing Day, 2006, I received an unexpected email in my inbox from Greg Reinhardt of Gympie, Queensland. I have never met Greg, but he runs an excellent website featuring the changed lives of people who have been converted.

On Sunday 10 September the King of Tonga died. I met him on several occasions. King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV, 88, was the benign feudal ruler of Tonga, the South Pacific kingdom known as the Friendly Islands since the days of Captain James Cook. The King was the world’s only Methodist sovereign.

The grandkids were pleading for more money. We don’t mind, because when their parents were living at home, we as a family went on the World Vision 40 hour famine. Now the grandkids wanted their $40 in sponsorship, and there are ten of them and that number is growing!

There is renewal going on in small country towns all over Australia. There is a sense of community that takes a visitor back to what it must have been perhaps a century ago. Some of this has been because of sea-change couples who have taken their superannuation and bought into country properties and businesses to work out a dream, even if it cost them money.

We live in a time when personal rights are stressed rather than personal responsibility. The crowds cry for personal benefits and happiness not personal obligation. Acting responsibly and doing your duty are not contemporary virtues.

Probably because I started my working life as a parole and probation officer and have continued for forty years visiting prisons, running pre-release programs in prisons, and support programs for prisoners families, that it is natural to have a lot of former prisoners among my friends. But two stand out, one in the UK and [...]