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Photo  -   Tronson du Coudray art “Ascension”   "The five biggest money mistakes" - I found this in my archive from a Sydney Morning Herald article. With Easter upon us, l realised this could so easily be converted into an article for church growth and church facilities construction as to how best to handle such debt and investments. The article was highlighted by a first sentence which read: "One wrong decision can put your financial future at severe disadvantage" and so too a church building debt decision. The five money mistakes are (1) not understanding transaction costs, (2) sa...

Photo  -  Tronson du Coudray art “Lines of Life”   One of the key instructions I give in my ministry to Christian young writers and new converts in following Jesus is that of Jesus words, that the sun and rain fall on the just and unjust / righteous and unrighteous, in reference to His grace upon all mankind. In this my 42 nd  year in Christian ministry I am more than ever convinced that good theology leads to a better understood life, that is an overall more balanced view of all that happens in the world around, our families, friends, sports, the workplace, in sickness and in health...

Photo  -    Lone Pine A few years ago, like many Australians I went to the cinema to view Russell Crowe's 'The Water Diviner'. The story line is about a father, an Australian farmer, who lost his three sons on Gallipoli in that disastrous military campaign in 1915. What fascinated me, amongst many things in the movie, was the work of the Commonwealth War Graces Commission in 1919-20 on Gallipoli as the team painstakingly identified from old military maps exactly where the various battles took place and then finding the bodies and dog tags. We discovered through the Turkish officials that...

Photo  -   All Night Sitter by Mark Tronson My parents were dairy farmers at Crediton (Eungella) on the great dividing range west of Mackay Queensland and moved into the Mackay township in 1955 after my father suffered a horse accident during a cyclone when herding ion the milking cows. His story can be read in his diaries held on both our site and the Mackay library. On one occasion I recall welcoming friends off the Sunlander passenger train at Mackay Railway Station and watching this beautiful gleaming blue and white diesel engine pull to a stop and my heart was sold. I recall at prim...