Columns

by John van Ruth

In our world view, disability is an abnormal part of a normal world. In Christ’s view, disability is a normal part of an abnormal world.

by Michael Lockwood

To appreciate the medicine, we need to recognise the disease. To truly rejoice in our Saviour, we need to see the sin from which he sets us free. 

by Helen Lockwood

A father’s kidney donation has saved his eight-year-old son’s life. The newspaper headline caught my eye. I knew the family. I had heard of their struggles and their strength.

by Helen Brinkman

Every morning when Shirley Klinge looks out of her window at the Tabeel retirement village at Laidley, she gazes at the hills at Cunninghams Gap, a pass over the Great Dividing Range connecting coastal Brisbane to the Darling Downs, in southeast Queensland.

by Pastor Timm Ebbs

The mother of a teenager in confirmation class asked to see me urgently. Her daughter wanted to talk with me. She was distraught. She courageously shared her struggle with sin. ‘

by Helen Brinkman

When the Brisbane Bears joined what was to become the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1987, who would have guessed the ripples of opportunity that flowed from its emergence as the first Queensland-based club?