Sep2022
Using what we have to bless strangers
by Craig Heidenreich
The folk at Paringa Holy Cross (in the South Australia Riverland) have a pretty good facility. When Pastor Stephen Trautwein noticed the hundreds of itinerant Pacific Islander workers coming into the area, he reached out to offer them a place to meet and worship.
Sep2022
Shining like stars
by Pastor Jim Strelan
… children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life (Philippians 2:15,16).
Sep2022
Letting go
by Pastor Jim Strelan
When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth (Matthew 16:22).
Sep2022
Worth everything
by Pastor Jim Strelan
In his joy [he] went and sold all he had and bought the field (Matthew 13:44b).
Sep2022
Consider the cost
by Pastor Jim Strelan
In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple (Luke 14:33).
Sep2022
Planted by streams of water
by Dianne Eckermann
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers (Psalm 1:3).
Sep2022
Freedom to love and serve
by Dianne Eckermann
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh, rather, serve one another humbly in love (Galatians 5:13).
Sep2022
Because we bear your name September 2022
by Bishop Paul Smith
God is busily involved in the messiness of our lives! This is celebrated most wonderfully in Psalm 139, where we are taught to pray, ‘O Lord … it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb’.
Sep2022
Dwelling in God’s word: A study on life-giving gifts
by Helen Lockwood
A father’s kidney donation has saved his eight-year-old son’s life. The newspaper headline caught my eye. I knew the family. I had heard of their struggles and their strength.
Sep2022
God’s strength provides a career in caring
by Helen Brinkman
Every morning when Shirley Klinge looks out of her window at the Tabeel retirement village at Laidley, she gazes at the hills at Cunninghams Gap, a pass over the Great Dividing Range connecting coastal Brisbane to the Darling Downs, in southeast Queensland.
