Though Thousands Rise Against Me
We thought we’d been through severe restrictions earlier this year with the onset of the Coronavirus, and they were, compared with what most of us have experienced within our relatively comfortable Western lives. Yet that time is beginning to look like a ‘walk in the park’ compared to the surging of the disease at the […]
God’s Gratuitous Grace
Ecclesiates says “Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again” (Eccles. 11:1) This is an exhortation for God’s people to freely put to use and spend what God has provided them with. Not flippantly, nor without due care and proportion. Rather on the basis that God has provided […]
Frustrated?
I’m an Adelaide Crows supporter. Having just suffered our 7th consecutive defeat this season, and having watched game after error-laden, skill-less, plan-less, joyless, depressing game… I’m way beyond frustrated!…. I even had a nightmare last night… that I was beginning to think the colour teal quite fetching!! The country, and we as the church, are […]
Tuning Out and Tuning in
Samuel was only a boy serving the Lord in the temple under Eli. This was at a time when the revelation of God was rarely heard or seen. One night Samuel was asleep when God called out, “Samuel, Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Yes? I’m here.” This happened a second and a third time. That’s when it […]
Want A Better Life?
Well, it’s not rocket science!… Jesus said that if we want to be really alive as God’s children and therefore as human beings, we need to take water from Him that will well up in us with eternal life (Jn 4:1-30). This comes to us through hearing and believing and following ‘every word that proceeds […]
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
I won’t ask you to nominate one!… The truth is, there are plenty of all three as we look around us in the world. We certainly see and experience an enormous amount of good from human beings, whether Christian or not. This has been particularly highlighted through the dark times of the COVID-19 era so […]
What Does God Think He’s Doing With My Life?
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He […]
Yes, They Matter
In one of Jesus’ best-known parables a shepherd gives particular attention to one sheep, rather than to 99 others. The reason that He gives particular attention to the one sheep is because it is the one that’s in trouble; it is ‘lost’, and its wellbeing and existence are precarious and threatened. At that time the […]
Hand Washing
Over the last few months during the COVID -19 pandemic, the number one piece of advice has been ‘wash your hands’ – and to do it for at least 20 seconds. There has been a host of recommended songs we can sing while washing our hands that help us keep track of time.The ancient Jews […]
The Reconciling Spirit
This week is recognised across Australia as Reconciliation Week: a week dedicated to acknowledging the oldest Australians – the Aboriginal people, and the relationship which those of us who are more recent Australians have with them; and we acknowledge the things that have not been good, and wrong, in that relationship, and the things that […]