Dec2023
A simple showcase for Scripture
by Helen Brinkman
Okay, hands up everyone who has attempted to read the entire Bible from beginning to end! How many of you completed the task? Whether you succeeded or failed, the fact is that reading Scripture end to end is not an easy undertaking!
Dec2023
Dwelling in God’s word: what is our mission?
by Kathy Matuschka
Just as Jesus lived in a certain place at a certain time among certain people, we also live, work and play in proximity to certain people.
Oct2023
In from the wild
by Rachel Koopmans
The warble of native birds, the rustling of nature, the sigh of a light breeze… these are the sounds that brush my ears when at last I make contact with Margaret Curnow.
Oct2023
Dwelling in God’s word: angels and demons
by Wilfred John Samuel
Many Christians in the postmodern context find it difficult to believe in the existence of angels and demons or evil spirits. But in most Asian countries there seems to be a preoccupation with the supernatural realm.
Aug2023
Walking with God
by Helen Brinkman
A life walking with God is something to sing about – at any age. And for one of the Lutheran Church’s oldest choir members, it’s a blessing he’s still singing about at the age of 96.
Aug2023
Dwelling in God’s word: mission-shaped prayer
by Jacob Traeger
One theologian has described mission as being caught up in the ‘heartbeat of God’. One of the most important ways in which we’re drawn into God’s heartbeat is prayer.
Jun2023
Serving the maker of heaven and earth
by Helen Brinkman
Being good with numbers has been a blessing for the man believed to be the LCANZ’s longest-serving congregational treasurer, Glen Kraft. The 74-year-old member of Burnie congregation on the north-west coast of Tasmania has spent the past 50 years as treasurer of his home congregation and is still g
Jun2023
Dwelling in God’s word: lessons from the early church
by Matt Schubert
My home church, Rockingham Mandurah Lutheran in Perth, weathered a two-year pastoral vacancy in 2014–2015. If you’ve been part of a long vacancy, you won’t be surprised to hear it was a time of exhaustion, frustration and currents of disunity.
Apr2023
Dwelling in God’s word: Easter freedom
by Matt Bishop
I serve in a suburban parish that 50 years ago planted a Lutheran primary school to be a missional community. In my everyday calling, I have the joy of being invited into that school to proclaim God’s freedom.
Apr2023
A love of learning and a life of serving
by Helen Brinkman
Retired Queensland educator Fred Stolz is penning his life story, which he’s called A Fortunate Life. ‘I don’t know why God has blessed me as he has, but I am very thankful’, says 87-year-old Fred as he reflects on his 54 years of service to education in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
