Jun 10, 2023 | Missional Practice, Movement Update
How do we measure success in kingdom ministry? You know that feeling as you enjoy chomping through a beautifully ripe fruit only to discover a rotten core that has you gagging and spitting out in disgust. How is it that things can look so good for so long only to...
May 25, 2023 | Leadership
In the first half of this blog I explored Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 18 on how to deal with things when you have been harmed by someone. I looked at how in contrast this teaching has often been used for dealing with disagreements and conflict with the effect of...
May 19, 2023 | Leadership, Missional Practice, Spiritual Formation
We differed in our view of how things should have gone. As ‘good Christians’ we thought we would apply Matthew 18 and meet with a trusted other to resolve things. We ended up in a worse place than when we began; more irritated, with more to forgive and now the trusted...
Apr 28, 2023 | Team Update
That’s right! We’re recruiting! Its the start of an exciting new season for us at SYC and we are on the look out for just the right people to join our leadership team. Together this team of three will build on the legacy of the last decade to take us...
Mar 29, 2023 | Leadership, Spiritual Formation
Just yesterday a friend was lamenting the way her work place was prioritising corporate growth at the expense of compassion for clients in the midst of the current cost of living crisis. A few weeks ago I attended a selection afternoon with an organisation looking for...
Mar 16, 2023 | Dealing with Depression, Uncategorized
There must be sin in your life that you just haven’t confessed? You just need to have more faith! Your prayer life needs improving – you obviously haven’t prayed about it! These are a few of the responses I have had from Christians when they have found out I...
Feb 23, 2023 | Leadership, Spiritual Formation
A leader moves on and a new one arrives, new possibilities emerge but old dreams are shattered, hope rises but feelings are hurt, and one or many eventually move on. A new year comes around, ‘fresh with no mistakes’, we decide what we want our lives to look like, we...
Feb 10, 2023 | Dealing with Depression, Spiritual Formation
Imagine waking up one morning and not knowing if you could face the day, let alone get to work and be productive? Where your confidence in yourself had dropped below zero and you had no self belief? I remember those days well… It was like all I had done before then...
Jan 20, 2023 | Leadership, Spiritual Formation
I found myself stressed out, burnt out and sick as a dog. Unable to dislodge the anxious thoughts. ‘Will she be OK?’ ‘What have I forgotten?’ ‘I’m so far away.’ ‘ She must be taken care of.’ Meanwhile three hours drive away she was fine, confident that everything...
Jan 12, 2023 | Dealing with Depression, Spiritual Formation
Have you ever woken up in the morning with that dreaded feeling that no one will ever understand what you’re going through? The world is just black, and you feel so alone? Winston Churchill described it as ‘the black dog’, others have described it as a suffocating...
