Are you sick of churches hurting people? Have you been hurt within a church? ‘Water under the bridge’ is the title of a new book by Don Barry, Pastor of Gateway Church in Hamilton. It is...
Why pay attention to this initiative and subscribe when others seem to offer similar stuff? It's a good question that we involved have also had to think about. Lets consider it....
A friend emailed this to me. I thought this concise speech was worth a post because of the breadth of perspective it brings to the kind of world we lived in back in 1814. The following speech...
I just met with Russell - the pastor of Ranui Baptist. This church is rare in that people are choosing to embrace Christian faith there regularly, and the only 'strategy' apparent is that the members and...
This past week I became aware of a friends school that ended religious education classes, and invited local churches to run a lunch-time program instead. I’m not aware of the reasons, however (while this particular...
Educational experts — like teachers — have known for years the importance of repetition in education. The spiral curriculum is a concept of repetition. Every week, month and year teachers intentionally repeat and expand upon...
Is the mission of Jesus truly the mission of our churches? In recent years our nation has been rediscovering how our early missionaries actually got a lot more things right than they were previously credited for,...
THE ‘HOPE PROJECT’ — NEW ZEALAND The below are a few paragraphs written for for a Christian audience, to help someone explain the Hope Project effort so far. What they do not communicate in the ‘balanced’...
Our team are very happy with the first effort. Assessment has identified areas that need addressing. The primary of these is the low web interaction / high bounce rate (meaning that many who came to...
After the most hectic year of my life the first phase has been achieved, and my mind has space to reflect on things other than only ‘core business’ - like blogs. For me, a big thank...