JP and Craig Gemmell Counsellor discuss the difficulties of relationships around Christmas time and the season of reflection.

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He's a former professional baseball player, the founder of the Orlando Magic Basketball Team, an author with over 100 books, the father of 19 kids (14 adopted) a cancer survivor, a man who loves Jesus and this is an interview about a single verse of scripture that will feed your soul and you will not want to miss.

www.patwilliams.com

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Sunday evening we talk to Kiwi born Brother Peter Bray the Vice Chancellor at Bethlehem University in the Holy land about his work among both Christian and Muslim students in Palestine and about his international award for services to Education.

We also chat with Mena Antonio the CEO of Caritas.org the Catholic agency for Peace, Justice and Development, the second largest NGO in the world.
 

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Bob Freytag is a former US Navy Leadership expert who loves Jesus and is a Senior Consulting Partner with the Ken Blanchard Companies. We discuss how we can lead without ego and with huge impact in people outcomes in faith, business and in our personal lives.

www.kenblanchard.com

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More stories of bad leadership in the faith and the secular world are appearing daily.

JP discusses the poor standard of leadership in the legal industry with Steph Dyhrberg of Dyhrberg Drayton Employment lawyers from Wellington about the need to care for employees and change leadership behavior.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/law-society-president-jacque-lethbridge-resigns-after-critical-culture-review-report/SJSEA6SJ3FCIAAE7A7TQ6NDE6M/

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https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/about-us/

Sunday evening I discuss a damning report on NZ Education with Olliver Hartwich, the Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative.

We are receiving daily reports about low academic outcomes, increasing rates of absenteeism and an ever-increasing rate of student m​ental health crisis. 

ON a world stage. we are dropping like a stone.

Join me for a vital conversation about the future of education in NZ.

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Dr George Simons work is around how we influence and change people's behaviour. 

As an author and psychotherapist, he specialises in anxiety and anger management, comprehensive personality assessments, mental health professional training, and consultation to businesses and organizations on how to deal with problem characters.

As a man of faith, he shares a simple but profound truth about how to dynamically impact the people we want to help move forward in faith, life and mental health.

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https://orama.nz

Orama on the Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf carries a significant spiritual legacy in NZ as a place of rest, restoration, connection, and prophetic vision

Dean McQuaid and the leadership team at Orama have cast a new vision for 2023 that has a deep connection to the original vision from 1963 and a fresh perspective for the future. Dean discusses the new Discipleship school, the art and creative worship focus,  and the opportunities to serve in a practical servant ministry and simply the opportunity to come and rest and recover among some of the most exquisite landscapes in the country.

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Frances Tagaloa is a lawyer, the Global Chief of Staff for Campus Crusade for Christ and a survivor of abuse within the church.

She has been making submissions to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse in Care in the Church and now sits as an advocate for survivors of abuse and a courageous voice for the thousands of Kiwis who have suffered sexual abuse under the care of Christian leaders from across nearly all denominations. 

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6987649680805355520/

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A small group of Australian Anglicans including the former Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies have split and formed their own new denomination.

Rev Dr. Mark Durie from the ​Melbourne School of Theology and I discuss the implications of when we stray from the teachings and create our own theology.

Also, I chat with Nigel Dixon the Vicar of Holy Trinity in Tauranga about the need to build an authentic community and stay in the center of Jesus' teaching.

https://www.mst.edu.au/faculty/mark-durie/

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