Chef Dominique Rizzo - reposted. - Bryce Davies

25 April 2025

Dominique Rizzo is one of Queenslands most successful female chefs.  She is dynamic and soulful and has featured on ready steady cook and runs cooking tours throughout Europe.  She helped the Salvos cater for a massive Christmas lunch a few years ago and won our hearts with her generosity and kindness.  Her motto is "Through the sharing of food we share life and one is never lonely or hungry"    Her story is beautiful.  

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Sleepy young boys. - Bryce Davies. Salvation Army

21 April 2025

I once fell asleep at the Salvos in a church service and dreamed I was dodging a football - everyone noticed.  In todays reading in Acts Ch 20 another young guy dozed off during a boring sermon, fell out of a window and died.  His name was Eutychus which in Greek means lucky! 

The lovely Sue and I watched Adolescence recently.  It was very confronting.  Engaging effectively with young boys is really important and we do well to find ways to be with them without harsh judgement and simplistic solutions.  

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Brenton Maunder - Bryce Davies

18 April 2025

Brenton is my nephew and we often have great chats about life.  He is 32 years old and has a lot of experience and insight into the journey of faith and on this podcast episode we have a truthful conversation about his journey.  Brenton has a theology degree and has been a drummer in many of the big Hillsong productions and conferences.  His wrestle and eventual conclusions about faith display great thought and wisdom and we do well to be brave enough to hear what he has to say.  

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Sacred Cows - Bryce Davies

14 April 2025

Some ideas and practices are like Sacred Cows.  Too much is at stake to challenge them, so we just pretend we are OK with it when really we are not; we just couldn't be bothered with the fight.  The people of Ephesus were hugely invested in the Temple of Artemus (It was after all one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world) and when Paul challenged them they went berserk and rioted.  The hundreds of years of tradition, economic value and entrenched religious thinking made any new thinking impossible.  Lets try to stay open minded no matter how long we have been invested in our own particular point of view.    

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Cath Grant - Bryce Davies

11 April 2025

Cath and her husband Mark have been friends with the lovely Sue and I for over 20 years.  Our kids have had holidays together and we are like one big family when we get together.  Cath was born - surprisingly and unexpectedly as a twin in the UK and immigrated to Australia with her family when she was just 10 years old. Cath is an educator and has just recently determined to barrack for Collingwood.  She even has a scarf and beanie, so of course we are besties.

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Doing the next right thing - Bryce Davies

7 April 2025

Woody Allen is quoted as saying "80% of success is just showing up" But for many of us, we would prefer not to bother with the mundane boring aspects of living well and go straight to the good bits.  Holidays, parties and getting pats on the back from our colleagues.  

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