Reality Bites
The COVID-19 crisis is now impinging more and more on our daily lives, and life is becoming very unfamiliar to us. In a very free society, strange new “fences” are being put around us, and we are being forced to stay, or go, where and when we would not choose to. All of this, with […]
Cutting Your Losses
This synonym is often used in business. For instance, an enterprising person takes on a new opportunity after a thorough evaluation. A business plan is drawn up, finance obtained and new prospective customers have been visited. Everything starts off on a good note. The first six months are positive and profitable. Then, for a number […]
Sin Happens
There’s no denying it!….But actually, there’s plenty of denying it; most people – including us – do it most of the time! Among non-Christians, and even plenty of Christians, the whole idea of “sin” has become either watered down to very little or rejected altogether. That is, the idea that people do things that are […]
Nevertheless, Hope!
Many tumultuous things are happening in our world. The Coronavirus crisis gripping the globe is one among many other problems being faced by the human and, increasingly, Australian communities. Christian love moves and obliges us to help our neighbours in face of these various challenges.Yet we must not be consumed or overwhelmed by the world’s […]
Infectious Love
In 2014, Kent Brantley, doctor and Christian missionary with Samaritan’s Purse, contracted the Ebola virus while treating sick patients in the midst of the epidemic outbreak in Liberia. Amazingly, using highly experimental treatment, he recovered. He writes, “…I was isolated for three days before my diagnosis came back, and so during that time, I was […]
Love Gone Viral
The outbreak of the coronavirus in Hubei in China has “rattled the cage” of ordered, secure, day-to-day routines around the world, and especially in the West. Hubei itself is paralysed. Visitors can’t return to their home countries and to their regular lives, or work – or, if so, then only to go into quarantine. Ships […]
A Testing Time
Recently I had a blood test to monitor my hyperlipidaemia – it’s not infectious! The reporter suggested that I take a Glucose Tolerance test. After fasting overnight I prepared for a two hour wait at a clinic. As I handed the nurse my Pathology request form, I enquired whether my GP had written ‘overnight’ or […]
The Beatitudes
Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to Him, and he began to teach them.He said: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.Blessed are the meek, for they will […]
God’s Own Country
Aboriginal Australians have an understanding that they are attached to the land and are a part of it. This is a Biblical truth. We are dust, dirt – the land – that God gathered together and formed into human beings, then breathed His life-giving Spirit into, and we became the living men, women and children […]
A Raging Fire That Many Waters Cannot Put Out
We have continued to be shocked at the raging ferocity of the fire storms that have been devastating the Australian landscape, causing untold harm to people and property. The family home of KI UCA Pastor, Louise Davis, was destroyed; friends of our congregation members have tragically died. Song of Songs 8:6-7 speaks of a “raging […]