We all know Charles Dickens’s story of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was the epitome of stinginess: the personification of being a miser when it came to money and generosity. It got me thinking about the Christmas message of… Read More ›
Peter Pilt
Just Received a Phone Call from NSW Premier Mike Baird
So I am sitting in my office at home doing sermon prep for Sunday and my phone rings. I answer and I hear – Hi Peter, this is Mike, Mike Baird. I am a little sceptical so I said… Read More ›
Sit Walk Stand January Preaching Series–Spiritual Authority
At Nowra City Church we have been preaching through the book of Ephesians during January 2014. Our last Sunday is on the Authority of the believer to stand against the devil. Here are my sermon notes. They are a… Read More ›
Around Australia Trip – Cloncurry to Three Ways Roadhouse
Today is day 4 of my trip around Australia in 13 days. Technically it’s day 3 and a half but let’s not get technical. Drove today from Cloncurry to the Three Ways Road house just north of Tennant Creek. I… Read More ›
Suggested Marketing Tag Lines for Political Parties
Today I heard an ad for a political party and the tag line was “Friends don’t let Friends vote Liberal”. This is a rip off of the Friends don’t let Friends drive drunk, anti drink driving advertising campaign. But it… Read More ›
The Pilt Family’s Recent Experience with a Bully.
Late last year, I wrote a blog on Cyberbullying and had the opportunity to make a presentation to the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard, about the immense damage bullying can do. Bullying not just in the school yard, but in… Read More ›
Changes to Nowra City Church announced on Sunday 18th August 2013
Preamble My heart is that Nowra City Church will be an authentic faith community with a missional DNA that engages people across every demographic in an ongoing conversation about what being a Christ follower looks like against the Australian… Read More ›
Report on my Facebook request to send Laura Birthday Cards
My daughter Laura loves getting letters in the post and so as it was coming up to her 10th Birthday, I posted on my Facebook wall asking for a favour, for people to send her a birthday card. Well we… Read More ›
Major Paper–The Causes and Solutions of Human Slavery within the Processes of Globalisation
A paper written for my studies at Fuller Theological Seminary Introduction It is 4th of March 2009. I am in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for just 48 hours, being taken by my host to Svay Pak:- a village 40 minutes north… Read More ›
This is my invitation to you to be part of the iProject 2013 and be part of the Solution to Trafficking and Poverty
On Sunday the 19th May 2013, Nowra City Church will be taking up its annual Imagine Offering. This will be the 11th such offering that has been taken up over the last 11 years. This is an offering that is… Read More ›