Category: PASSION

Reaching the world

March 9, 2025

One of the things I wanted to do when we started PASSION Australia back in 1998 was to have a website. It was very strongly on my heart.

Back in 1998 you had to write lines of code in html to build a website. So I stayed up late every night after my family had gone to bed to learn how to do it. Some nights I would get to bed at 200am.

Eventually it all started to make sense. I had a website online and people started to come. I remember getting 50 people visit in a month and being very excited. Then 100, then 1000 and so on.

Now 27 years later we have had tens of millions of visitors from right around the world. So far this year we have had visitors from 77 different countries visit us on both PASSIONAustralia.blog and PASSIONAustralia.org. It is truly amazing to see the reach.

Our free discipleship booklet has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Our sermons get listens in the 1000s each week. And our salvation pages have been visited in the hundreds of thousands of times.

My prayer for the websites is that God will bring the people who need to hear about Jesus and His great love for them to us. We just want to connect people to Jesus and then help them grow in their faith. That is our heart.

One other thing we have always tried to do is make everything available for free. I do not want money to be an issue for someone finding Jesus and being encouraged in their faith. Finding Jesus is just too important.

If you are reading this today, no matter where you are in the world, I want to say thank you. Thank you for visiting our website. I hope you were blessed and encouraged during your time with us. We really appreciate you!

Our prayer for you

Loving heavenly Father, I pray right now You would touch the person reading this. Touch their heart with Your love, let them know how truly deeply you love them. Touch their mind to help them understand all that You have done for them in Jesus and what You will do in the future. If they need healing, place Your healing hand on them now. If they need protection, place a hedge of Your holy angels around them. If they are alone, let them know Your peace and presence right now. If they need provision, please open the floodgates of heaven and pour out from Your storehouse. But most of all Lord, fill them with the love of Jesus so full that it overflows continously. I ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.

What is my mission?

January 11, 2025

What is your mission?

This is a great question. My mission was given to me many years ago in Perth. I was doing my morning devotions and a Bible passage really jumped out at me. The passage lit up on the page like a light was shinning on it. And the words looked bigger like a magnifying glass was put over them.

The passage was 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 NLT. It says…

“And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. [19] For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. [20] So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

This is when I felt God call me to ministry. In my heart I knew I had to tell people about Jesus and help them to follow Him. This started through my local church and several years later through PASSIONAustralia.org.

So since 1996 I have been doing my best to fulfil the mission God has given me. Some times has been in a full time role like a Pastor or a Chaplain, but mostly it has been as a Lay Preacher while working part time in secular work.

So what is my mission? I am an ambassador for Christ helping people be reconciled to Himself. I help them put the pieces of faith together to find Christ.

Remember your Sword

January 1, 2025

A verse that is on my heart for the start of 2025 is Ephesians 6:17. It says, “Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”

The part that is really jumping out at me is taking the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

I feel like God is reminding me to fill up and take His Word with me wherever I go in 2025. As I do, God’s Word will build me up and strengthen me, and it will also impact those around me.

As I dwell on this thought I am reminded of Jesus when He was tempted in the desert by Satan in Matthew 4:1-11. Satan came to tempt Jesus and Jesus responded three times with Old Testament verses. Satan then left Him.

Satan still uses the same tricks against us today. He wants us to doubt God, His provision and protection, and he wants us to doubt ourselves and our mission. But like Jesus, we can quote the Bible. The key though, is to know it first.

Several days ago I posted a resource that can help you read the New Testament in one year. It has a list of all the Bible books and chapters and you can tick them off as you go. You can find it here.

I have done this a number of times over the years. It has really helped me to fill up on God’s Word each day. I would really encourage you to do it this year. Take the time to store God’s in your heart (Psalm 119:11) and allow it to renew your mind and change you in to a new person (Romans 12:2).

I honestly believe the best way we can grow in our faith in God is to fill up on His Word – the Bible. As we do, we can take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God with us wherever we go.

In 2025, do not forget your Sword! If you do not have a Bible, you can download one here for free.

Read the New Testament in 2025

December 28, 2024

If you would like to read the New Testament in 2025 you can download our free reading plan. In this plan you can read one chapter a day and you will finish it in September. If you read one chapter five days a week you will finish it in December. If you are interested you can download it here.

If you do not have a Bible you can download one for free at the YouVersion Bible app website.

Life without a computer

October 2, 2024

Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

Life without a computer. I could not imagine that now. I have been using a home computer since the early 1990s.

Initially it was for email, my studies and looking up a few websites, but over time it became more about ministry. I set up PASSIONAustralia.org in 1998 and it has been going ever since.

Since setting up PASSION a couple of things stand out to me…

1. Our website PASSIONAustralia.org has had tens of millions of visitors with many of them going to our salvation pages.

2. Our free discipleship booklet has been downloaded over 100,000 times and translated in to different languages.

When I was working as a Pastor I would come home after church and put my sermon text and audio online for people to read and listen to again or if they missed church that week.

Most of this has been done on my home computers I have had. More recently it has been on my iPads or my iPhone, but still I could not imagine doing ministry without a home computer.

So life without a computer, it would look very very different.