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Unity among squabbling siblings

Unity among squabbling siblings

I recently went with a friend to his church’s social down at our local beach. I didn’t think much of it at the time, and it was a fun experience getting to meet fellow brothers and sisters whom I didn’t know..

  •  Bread alone

    No one lives by bread alone, as Jesus said during the temptations.

  • School

    This is a great truth. Thousands upon thousands of brand new school students started their first experience of 'big school' sometime this month. It happens every year. It happened to me in 1956 in North Mackay, Qld. 5 years ago my then 5 year old grand-son was one of them. July last year another grandson started Day Care.

  • Diary of a teenage girl

    It was a lazy summer’s evening not long after New Year. My husband and I perched expectantly on the plush grey sofa in my parents’ living room. The yearly ritual was about to begin. 

  • Reflections on walking the Sydney de Camino (Part 2)

    My walk along the Camino de Sydney during 2021 provided a time to reflect on some of the wider cultural changes that have been occurring in the Greater Sydney region.

  • Continuing persecution in India,Vietnam, and Pakistan

    While Christians are a minority in many places, they are generally acknowledged as being good citizens. The vehemence with which they are attacked by godless authorities is a symptom of the spiritual battle we all face.

  • It Takes a Village

    There is a saying: ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’ While I’ve heard this saying briefly before, it only recently became apparent to me what it really means. So, when Jacinda Adern made a post on Instagram introducing her new baby earlier in June this year with the caption ‘welcome to our village wee one’ the comment simply passed over me.

  • The official preacher

    Today in most denominational ecclesiastical structures Ordination is a big deal. What does Ordination mean and what words are conveyed to issue it. There are many variants across the denominations.

  • Forgive, but that’s not all…

    Should we forgive each other?

  • A Greater Love

    In 2000 a small team of psychologists began a study of how babies in Romanian orphanages developed compared to orphans placed in foster homes and children  who live with their families. The orphanage staff fed, changed, and bathed the children but apart from that they were left in their cribs all day to entertain themselves.

  • Where's God when I'm scared

    If God is real, then why do bad things happen?

  • ‘the guns'

    It is 1939. There is a wedding in a town 40 miles inside Poland from the Czech border and the morning after - the guests are woken early to leave quickly. The Germans had crossed the border. Poland was being invaded.