Every week there seems to be some media outcry about the fall of a prominent person in our society – be it sports people, politicians, movie stars, musicians. The story comes out of some moral indiscretion, an unacceptable past deed, the consequence of a moment of bad judgement. The mass
Picture a woman. She’s alone in the world; her troubles drive her into relationships that are toxic, with men who take advantage of her for profit. Through a combination of bad choices and toxic relationships she ends up working as a prostitute in her home town. She has no way
I heard the gospel on the ABC this morning. The great gospel preacher Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. So they played a grab of him preaching the gospel. So yet again Australians – together with people around the world – in his death as in his
On the 4th April 2018 the eyes of the Commonwealth, and even the world, will turn to the Gold Coast as the city plays host to more than six thousand athletes and officials from 70 countries – all arriving to participate in the 21st commonwealth games. The city has been
Every four years the Winter Olympics shows up on our TVs. And for a couple of weeks Australians get interested in activities very distant from our daily lives. We learn to say ‘luge.’ We have opinions on ski-jump landings. Images of snowboarders, speed-skaters and skiers fill our screens. For all
Recently, we have probably heard the word ‘jubilee’ used in connection with Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, a celebration for her sixtieth year as Queen. The use of ‘jubilee’ in this context has little, if anything to do with the biblical idea of Jubilee, except as a marker of a length
A failure to listen is at the heart of sin. Learning to listen again is the new heart Jesus gives us. Have you ever thought of the Christian life that way – as learning to listen again? In our recent ‘A Home in the Mess’ series at Creek Road, we
On Sunday our South Bank campus will start the process of settling into our third home in four years; we’re taking residence in the afternoons (4pm) in the home of another church in West End – LifePlace. Since moving out of home as a 19 year old (15 years ago),
The last four weeks have revealed deep divisions in the Australian community; divisions that show no sign of simply disappearing with the announcement of the results of the postal survey today, or even with the legislation that will follow; divisions that we churches have been part of widening — and
The Lord’s Supper is a wonderful way to celebrate our salvation in Jesus together as a church family. It’s a meal given to the church by Jesus himself as a special way to remember his death on the cross – that he broke his body and shed his blood to
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