sport
I love basketball. It is the sport I played the most as a kid. I enjoy following the NBA on the internet – probably making up for the fact that Michael Jordan was drafted by the Chicago Bulls two months after I left Chicago! With people who do not know the game well, the assumption…
READ MOREThe Netball World Championships are on in Auckland at the moment and this causes me to reflect on the sport – especially as a lifelong basketball fan and player. I must confess that netball has become an acquired taste. I enjoy the game.the goodNetball has advantages over basketball. Two come to mind. By not allowing…
READ MOREThe inexplicable has happened – again! Going into their fourth straight World Cup rugby tournament as overwhelming favourites NZ’s All Blacks were yesterday knocked out, this time earlier than ever before. If the inexplicable keeps happening when will it cease to be called inexplicable? My mind goes to the Good to Great book by Jim…
READ MORENZ Soccer has started a new magazine. It is called Goal! It is pitched at girls and boys. 12 glossy pages. Plenty of colour and images. No more than a few lines of words at any one time. Cartoon characters Zac and Lisa adorn almost every page. There are interactive quizzes and crosswords and ‘spot…
READ MOREAbout Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.