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Heartland (The Lutheran)

Every month LCA Bishop John Henderson writes his Heartland column for ‘The Lutheran’. You may read his messages here. You might also like to read his occasional messages to the church, usually issued via his Heartland eNews; these messages are often but not always in response to current events in the world or the church. You can sign up to Heartland eNews here. You can subscribe to ‘The Lutheran’ here.

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Dec2020

Whatever our sin may be, God’s love is unceasing

by Rev John Henderson

‘Pastor, you’ve only got popcorn sins!’

That’s what a wealthy businessman and church member told me as he spoke of the personal cost of keeping his company afloat. In order to operate he needed to obtain sensitive environmental permits, which had drawn him into immorality and high-level corruption.

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01
Nov2020

What’s in our name? The call to share the good news

by Rev John Henderson

During my school years in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, people would sometimes ask me about my ‘religion’. Their frequent response to hearing ‘Lutheran’ was, ‘Is that a sect?’

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01
Oct2020

Salvation for all – a story worth sharing

by Rev John Henderson

Years ago, when I was a young pastor, I said in a Sunday sermon that the Bible verses I was speaking about were a ‘story’. Later, an older pastor took me aside to tell me I was wrong. He thought a ‘story’ meant something made up and therefore not true. I disagreed with him then and I still do now.

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01
Sep2020

Humility our first lesson of Christian living

by Rev John Henderson

The Macquarie Dictionary defines humility as having a ‘modest sense of one’s own significance’.

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01
Aug2020

Forgiven and ready to be a blessing

by Rev John Henderson

Do you ever lie awake at night ruminating over an incident in your life, or something wrong you once did? Even if it was years ago, does the memory still make you feel embarrassed, ashamed, or guilty?

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01
Jul2020

Glimpsing our heavenly future

by Rev John Henderson

I recently passed the third anniversary of the heart attack I had in Namibia during the Lutheran World Federation Assembly. Remembering their care for me at the time, I wrote to the medical team at the Roman Catholic Hospital in Windhoek.

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01
Jun2020

Jesus carried our anxieties to the cross

by Rev John Henderson

Anxiety eats away inside us. At first it might not be obvious, unless we know how to spot the symptoms. Untreated, anxiety wears us down and drains us, until eventually we can no longer keep up the appearance of ‘normal’. Our energy levels drop. Others start to notice and inquire, ‘Are you okay?’

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01
May2020

God will grant us patience and hope

by Rev John Henderson

As the coronavirus pandemic has rolled around the world, it has intrigued me how many passengers and crew on cruise ships became trapped, as successive ports denied them docking. Certainly, these floating pleasure palaces have been very popular over recent years.

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01
Apr2020

God’s love our only security

by Rev John Henderson

Have you ever tried to ‘fix’ something, only to end up having more problems than you started with? It can happen to anyone, whatever we are trying to ‘fix’ – machinery, computers, antiques, cars and even organisations and relationships.

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01
Mar2020

Lyrics humbly lead us to the Lamb

by Rev John Henderson

In the early 1820s, Charlotte Elliott suffered from an illness which left her with a permanent physical disability. She turned to Christ and devoted her life to writing poetry, editing Christian journals and composing about 150 hymns.

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