Congregations that signed a Child Safety ‘No Children’ Assurance in Round 1 are reminded that a new assurance is required for Round 2.

by Maria Rudolph

If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’, you are doing right (James 2:8).

by Peter Bean

At times during my life, I have been very unsettled, arguing with and questioning God about what is happening. My sleep has been interrupted. I have been ill at ease. There’s been a definite lack of peace in my life.

‘Joy, O joy, beyond all gladness!’ These are astounding and inspiring words from the rarely sung chorus of the Christmas hymn in our Lutheran Hymnal and Supplement (LHS) 32, written by 17th-century hymnwriter Christian Keymann.

by Reid Matthias

Who was John the Baptist? Just a Grizzly Adams-type mountain man wearing a camel’s hair tunic and eating grasshoppers dipped in honey? Pastor Reid Matthias reflects on the unorthodox life of this desert wanderer, whose role was to ‘go on before the Lord to prepare a way for him’.

Pray for the millions of Australians and New Zealanders living with disabilities on the International Day of People with Disability (3 Dec).