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Out of the Darkness

Do you, or someone you know, struggle with Depression? This could be the best Christmas present.  I have just finished adapting my book ‘Out of the Darkness’ into an eBook.  The hard copy version has helped hundreds of people and i have had incredible feedback, particularly that it is easy to read […]

Help ... My friend is suicidal
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Help … My friend is suicidal

It was a shock, a sad and terrible event that could have been prevented.  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post ‘I’m and All Black and I’m Ok’. What prompted it was the suicide of someone in our local community. In our Church service, the following Sunday morning, […]

I’m an All Black and I’m OK
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I’m an All Black and I’m OK

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It’s our national sport here in New Zealand; some say it’s our national religion. Rugby, it’s not a game for wimps. 15 players are throwing themselves at each other to get a ball across a line at the other end of the field. No helmets, no shoulder pads, the only […]

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Our Need For Thee, by Francis of Assisi

Our Need For Thee, by Francis of Assisi In our ever present need for thee: Beloved, let us know your peace. Let us be your instruments that break every shackle, for do not the caged ones weep. And give us our inheritance of divine love so that we can forgive like you. […]

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3 Things to Do with Dust

I have a new car, well it’s new to me. This little Steel blue Mitsubishi Colt is what gets me around now. Love it. So I was out driving the other night with my son and the windscreen needed demisting. It was really fogging up quick, so I turned on […]

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Nose to the Grindstone – Northland Adventure

If you put your nose to the grindstone rough, And keep it down there long enough, You will soon conclude that there are no such things, As a brook that babbles or a bird that sings. These three things will your world compose: Just you, the stone, And your ground-down […]

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Reaching 50, not out.

  Brendon McCullum knocks one off to the side ‘With a quiet nod to the applauding spectators he looks around the ground knowing he has a lot more work to do if New Zealand is going to save this test. Brendon McCullum, 50, not out’ Radio Sport commentator I was […]

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Peace Making in the Debris of a Gambling Addiction

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Guest Blog: Last year I invited a number of people to write sermons on the Beatitudes. Bill Gray wrote about Peacemaking within the battleground of an addiction to gambling. Here is a condensed version. My life is anything but peaceful. I have a continuous, on-going, relentless, battle with an addiction […]

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How to Love them when they keep shooting at You!

The early church leader Paul was an amazing leader. He took on huge challenges and amongst them infighting within his own Christian community. Nothing changes much does it! One of the challenges he throws us is how to love whilst people are stabbing you in the back. He had an […]