Thinking and Learning

Throughout the book of Proverbs, there are themes relating to justice. You'd expect this, given that this was the text used to train up...

Proverbs 27:7 talks about people who are empty and people who are full. When our emotional and spiritual tanks are empty, there are some...

The book of Proverbs has a different structure to most Biblical books. Other books have a flow about them that is obvious – a story with...

Helping someone to learn with you often has four phases: 1. I do, you watch. It’s very directive. 2. I do, you help. The style is more...

We did a couple of experiments in our congregation. One was to give a group of people a bucket with holes in it and plugs to plug the...

The Bible has lots of great examples of faithful people bucking against the trends: · The midwives Shiprah and Puah are told by the...

Romans 8 says that “All of creation is groaning” – the entire cosmos, ecologically, socially, politically…the entire system is groaning....

Let’s imagine that Alex tells Chris something untrue and unflattering about Billie. Are there potential further wrongs committed because...

Imagine a spectrum of anger responses: · Not really angry · Angry enough to complain or whinge · Angry enough to feel it in your body ·...

Imagine a large paddock where there are sheep. You need a strategy to keep sheep in the paddock. There are at least two options: 1. Put a...

In Mark, Jesus is doing a lot of teaching to disciples who just don’t get it. They sort of understand, but it’s not clear to them, and...

Mark chapter 3, looks at how people see Jesus who is operating in the spiritual authority that God has given him. Two significant...

There’s an old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” In a Lano and Woodley sketch, Frank says...

Content warning – this post on 2 Samuel 11 and 13 refer to stories of sexual abuse. Vegietales, the children’s bible-story animation...

One of the most frustrating insults against Christianity is that the Bible is a bunch of fairy tales. When people say that, I know they...

AA Milne wrote a charming story of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet plotting to expose Kanga and her baby Roo. They would infiltrate Kanga’s...