While many of his contemporaries are on schoolies break, one year 12 student is spending his time organising prayer for the youth of Sydney.

Schoolies week was around when I did the HSC years ago but it is was nothing like the size of the event today. It is an awful spectacle to see drunken teenagers vomiting into gutters and publicly sleeping off hangovers.

Preaching is not a sport. It is far too important to be handled with such contempt... sort of

Christina McMillan volunteers one day a week to teach SRE. She is one of the many Christians who could benefit from the Timothy Partnership.

By relying on our rational mind to control our untrustworthy emotions, are we making the assumption that the mind has not been equally affected by the fall?

Should we strive for chaos or order in our ministry?

As 16 deacons prepare to be ordained as presbyters, two of the men already head up the parishes they will officially take charge of after November 28.

We need to challenge ourselves with books like Jane Eyre. We need to slow down and give reading the attention it deserves.