Milestones
My eldest daughter, Bethany, finished High School on Friday! It was a big and exciting and emotional and joyful and sad week. The future is a bit like an open book to her now: she gets to write the [...]
About Retirement
Here’s an edited extract of a wise email I (Cameron) recently received “ Dear friend, I stepped down from the CEO role at Matthias Media nearly two years ago. I also stepped away from salaried employment at that point friends keep [...]
A Letter to Essendon F.C.
A person I know, Akos Balogh, recently wrote this letter to the Essendon AFL Club after the Andrew Thorburn fiasco. Akos’ family moved to Australia from Hungary when he was young and he thanks God for that. This extract of [...]
How to Stand Firm
How can you make sure you stand firm in the faith? How can we, TGS, stand firm in the gospel? Philippians Chapter 4 tells us. In verse one Paul instructs you/us, “Therefore, my brothers and sisters … stand firm [...]
How to Have Joy
How can you make sure you have joy? We are all tempted at times to self-pity or to lose hope. Philippians Chapter 3 is to safeguard your/our joy (cf. 1:25; 4:4). It can be surprising reading this from the [...]
What an Example!
Who are your ‘heroes’, your examples in life? Philippians Chapter 2 gives you the greatest example to follow, and then three more helpful examples. Here are notes from the Chapter 2 sermon from the Gafcon conference — - Unity [...]
What a book!
At the Gafcon conference, four people each preached to us from a Chapter of Philippians (the four were: Peter Adam—Melbourne; Jay Behan–Christchurch; Kanishka Raffel—Sydney; Peter Jensen—Sydney). It was great, and here are some of my notes on this terrific [...]
‘So bad it’s good’? – The Aussie Bible
Maybe you’ve heard of "The Aussie Bible (well, bits of it anyway!)" by Kel Richards (journalist and author). It’s an Uber-slang retelling of parts of the Gospels. Here’s an excerpt called ‘Escape’, retelling Matthew 2:13-15 — “Then Joe had [...]
Surprising Findings On What Ozzies Think of Church, Jesus, & Christians
What do Australians think of Church, Jesus and Christians? The National Church Life Survey’s Annual Community Survey (ACS) has surprising answers — 1. The overall message is that while the media narrative is overly negative about Church, the reality [...]
The Bible in twelve verses
If someone asked you to summarise the whole Bible in a dozen verses, what verses would you choose? Don’t know? Here is one 12-verse summary — “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and [...]
