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You Better Watch Out...

14.12.2018 Categories: All | Advent Written by: Neil Percival

“You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why...” These are the opening lines of the well known Christmas song, “Santa Claus is coming to town.” The song urges us to get ready because Santa is coming and the way to be ready is to be on his “nice list” and asleep when he arrives. Apparently, if we see Santa, the magic fails and we don’t get presents…

Tags: Advent, Preparation, Christmas

There Is Never An Excuse

23.11.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

If you read the statistics, domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in our society. By domestic violence, I’m thinking of every kind of coercive, controlling behaviour, physical or emotional, used by one person to exert power or control over another. Sadly, it is as prevalent amongst Christians as it is amongst non-Christians. The difference is that abusers who claim to be Christians often try to twist the bible to justify their actions.

Greater Love Has No One Than This

09.11.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First World War. During that conflict, an Australian soldier in the trenches of France saw his friend fall in a hail of bullets out in no man’s land.

What If...?

19.10.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

One of the most powerful questions that we can ask is, “What if…?” This is the question that enables us to imagine a different future, to see an opportunity for change, or to try something new. It gives us a glimpse of what life might be like if we did things differently, and the ways that our lives, and the lives of those around us, might be better.

Tags: Vision, Creation, Purpose

Grateful and Inspired

05.10.2018 Categories: All Written by: Neil Percival

Last Friday I was privileged to speak and pray at a Police Remembrance Day ceremony here in Young. We gathered at Young Cemetery, at the newly restored graves of four police officers, each of whom lost their lives serving this community over 100 years ago.

Tags: Police, Remembrance Day