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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 50 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see theContinue reading “2015 in review”

D. A. Carson: “People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherishContinue reading “Drifting…”

This quote from a sermon by Tim Keller has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it, and I believe every word: My dear friends, most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken byContinue reading “Leadership”

OPINION | Al Stewart Tuesday, 8 December 2015 We all arrived in our cars that morning, much the same as we always did. We parked in the car park and wandered in the main door. I had done this many times before, but this morning I thought I would take a step back and haveContinue reading “Guest Post: “Yes, you were at this meeting” Al Stewart”

Since the mid 1890’s the community of Norfolk Island have been decorating All Saints Church and celebrating Thanksgiving together (this year the festivities begin at All Saints from 10am). But how did the most American of holidays end up on a remote island in the middle of the South Pacific? According to current churchwarden, Mr.Continue reading “Thanksgiving on Norfolk Island”

Be Grateful for Christian Fellowship By Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “If we do not give thanks daily for the Christian fellowship in which we have been placed, even where there is no great experience, no discoverable riches, but much weakness, small faith, and difficulty; if on the contrary, we only keep complaining to God that everything isContinue reading “Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Be Grateful for Christian Fellowship”

I don’t know about you but for me I go through pretty long dry patches where I don’t get to read my Bible all that much. God does not tell us that we need to read the Bible everyday. What he does say is much more fascinating. In Psalm 1 and Joshua 1 God saysContinue reading “Long Dry Patches”

Each year, the 29th September holds a special significance for Police throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands. It is a day for police to pause to honour officers whose lives have been cut short while performing their duty as a police officer. Here on Norfolk Island a Service ofContinue reading “Police Remembrance Day Service”