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.
Aug2022
Dwelling in God’s word: A study in the baptised life
by Pastor Timm Ebbs
The mother of a teenager in confirmation class asked to see me urgently. Her daughter wanted to talk with me. She was distraught. She courageously shared her struggle with sin. ‘
Jul2022
Dwelling in God’s word: a Christian perspective on ethical investment
by Nick Schwarz
For Christians, the life and teachings of Jesus and the word of God we find in the Bible more generally are the most important sources of guidance on ethical matters.
Jun2022
Living guilt-free
by Adrian Kitson
When I was a young Christian in high school and university, I understood that Jesus died for me, and I was forgiven. Nothing could now separate me from the love of God. And yet it still seemed to me at the time that, having settled my salvation, God now gave me a new set of rules to obey.
May2022
The perils of burnout
by Adrian Kitson
‘It is better to burn out than fade away’, they say. Like a lot of people, I believed this in my younger days. I believed that I was called by God to be productive for family, for church and for the world.
Apr2022
Discerning God’s will
by Pastor Tim Klein
Have you ever heard the expression: ‘She (or he) has the gift of discernment’? Perhaps you have been invited to a session of ‘discernment’ – to discern God’s will or purpose for a person or a congregation.
Mar2022
A study on racism
by Craig Heidenreich
‘Don’t call unclean, what God has declared is clean.’ This instruction to the apostle Peter in Acts 10:15 comes as part of his vision of heaven opening to release a large sheet filled with all kinds of animals.
Feb2022
Dwelling in God’s word: Christian leadership
by Tania Nelson
Leadership matters. We applaud leadership skills like decisiveness in decision-making and the ability to plan strategically, and we readily recognise good organisational skills in our leaders.
Dec2021
What is family?
by Julie Krause
What is ‘family’? There are many different definitions, but a simple Google search suggests: A group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit All the descendants of a common ancestor A group of related things … I have a weird family … Six children. Four different fathers and only… Read more
Nov2021
We all have a role
by Anne Hansen
In the 1990s I travelled to the USA to join a Lutheran Youth Encounter musical team, ‘Captive Free’ touring the US east coast for 12 months. There were six of us: a drummer, a singer, a bass guitarist, lead guitarist, keyboard player, and sound technician.
