Cruising

Posted on May 29, 2026 
Filed under Evangelism

From David Cook at The Expository Preaching Trust –

“Maxine (my wife) and I have just taken a cruise from NZ to Australia.

We met up with our son and his family, who live in LA, as they were attending a family wedding in Rotorua and we caught a ship back to Sydney from Auckland.

Our ship, the Norwegian Spirit, was cyclone affected so that we had to be rerouted to avoid the worst of the seas.

However we did face 4 days in the Tasman sea and though my forebears were seamen I did not inherit their sea legs.

Being on a cruise ship in the middle of rough seas is a bit like hell; there is no escape; there is nowhere to go that is not rocking and rolling.

Our ship stopped in Melbourne on a Sunday so we caught a tram from the wharf into the city. …”

– David shares, among other things, the tragedy of what he didn’t find at a key location in Melbourne.

Photo: Billboard outside St Paul’s Cathedral in October 2024.