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Lay Down Your Palms – Holy Week
Here's song that I wrote with Leigh Newton for the Easter season. We worked on it last year but didn't release it in time, The lyric starts on Palm Sunday and follows the Easter events, which means that it is can either be sung progressively, some verses during Holy week and...
Follow Me (for Lent)
Follow Me (for Lent) Here is a story of truth and grace, of love revealed, life received. Here is a saga of freedom and cost, of pasts forgotten, futures begotten. Here is biography of found and lost, of paths taken, roads forsaken. Here is a meeting of now and always, of ashen...
See the Light
See The Light An Invocation and a.Blessing inspired by Matthew 5:13-20. Did you see the light today - rubbing sleepy eyes as golden beams pierced the bedroom curtains; holding your breath in awe as the sun spilled bright dawn over the hills? Did you see the light today -...
RedBubble Store
This week I've started updating my REDBUBBLE Shop with some additional products based on some of my photography. The big thing is a range of jigsaw puzzles based on landscapes, birds and fauna, and farm images from Australia and New Zealand. I started the shop about a decade...
Gathering on Christmas Eve
Twilight comes, and the rush of traffic and unfinished business is replaced by the babble of evening news, with its unending litany of shock and sorrow. With weary bodies and troubled souls, we gather here to welcome the night - to seek respite from the world's woes, to find...
New Sheet Music
I've added a couple of newer songs for sale as sheet music for the Advent/Christmas season. Make a New Way is based on the cry of John the Baptist but set in Australia. Written with David MacGregor. Blessed Night, Blessed Light which explores God being present in darkness as...
Missional Church Leadership – Weeks 9 and 10
Leadership and Change Week 10 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology continued the theme of Leadership and Change. We revisited Luke 10: 1-20 and spent time talking about Lectio Divina as a four part process. We then looked at the Five Marks of Mission as a...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 8
Week 8 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was the first of two sessions on Leadership and Change. Of course there is a plethora of material on both, and people can do whole units on each of these topics through the College and University anyway. So I...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 7
Week 7 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Forms of Missional Leadership. Yes, I had some of my collection of Disney, Pixar and Aardman characters on the table as people arrived. The first part of the session was a reflection on John 15:1-11...