Nov2018
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
This year the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women falls on Sunday 25th November. I encourage LCA congregations and members to recognise this day as a contribution to reducing the incidence of violence in all its forms. Acts of violence are widespread across society and they take many forms. It affects both… Read more
Nov2018
Do you have enough?
So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan. They told him, “Joseph is still alive! In fact, he is ruler of all Egypt:’ Jacob was stunned; he did not believe them. But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he… Read more
Nov2018
The great deliverance
“God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God.” (verses 7,8) Read Genesis 45:1-15 Joseph finally revealed his true identity to his brothers. As the ruler of Egypt, second… Read more
Nov2018
Encouragers
Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise. Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage… Read more
Nov2018
We are never forgotten
I am thankful and glad, and I feel completely secure, because you protect me from the power of death, and the one you love you will not abandon to the world of the dead. (verses 9,10) Read Psalm 16 How quickly people are forgotten after they have died! It sometimes takes a lot of delving… Read more
Nov2018
The Father’s love
“Your servant, my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons. One of them went away from me, and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him since. If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will… Read more
Nov2018
The master’s cup
Only the man who was found to have the cup will become my servant. (verse 17) Read Genesis 44:1-17 Joseph, ruler of Egypt was visited again by his brothers. They didn’t recognize him still. They brought their baby brother Benjamin who Joseph loved. When they left Joseph planted into Benjamin’s sack his personal silver cup…. Read more
Nov2018
Heartland eNews – post-Convention message to the church
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in… Read more
Nov2018
Getting real
Deeply moved at the sight of his brother, Joseph hurried out and looked for a place to weep. He went into his private room and wept there. (verse 30) Read Genesis 43:16-34 When I was growing up there used to a saying that ‘real men don’t eat quiche’! I always struggled with that, because I… Read more
Nov2018
Fun for the ages
Riverview Lutheran Rest Home in Loxton, in South Australia’s Riverland, was recently recognised as a finalist in the ACSA (Aged & Community Services Australia) Aged Care Awards for its intergenerational community engagement program.
