Apr2020
Easter care from a distance
Usually a time of full churches and family gatherings to commemorate the death and resurrection of our Saviour Jesus, Easter 2020 was unlike any other. But despite churches being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our Lutheran family showed initiative and resourcefulness in caring for one another.
Apr2020
Sharing ‘contact-less’ love, hope and care this Easter
Lutheran Tract Mission has an easy, fast and free way to share God’s love and the hope he gives this Easter without leaving your home – simply send an e-tract!
Apr2020
Sharing Easter joy in a bag
How to celebrate Easter joy while socially distanced? St Petri Nuriootpa’s Messy Church team distributed paper bags of goodies via drive-by.
Apr2020
Because of Easter, there’s nothing to fear
by Pastor Reid Matthias
Even Christians are not immune to the great sickness of fear. But the light that shines from the empty tomb cannot be overcome by fear or darkness – so what is there to fear?
Apr2019
Good Friday and Easter
by Bishop John Henderson
Dear Christian friends, On Tuesday morning, as the TV showed scenes of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral collapsing in flames, I couldn’t help reflecting, as perhaps you did, that of all the weeks for this tragedy to occur, Holy Week is the most poignant.
Mar2018
Easter 2018
by Bishop John Henderson
They killed him by hanging him on a cross, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. (Acts 10:39–40 NIV) Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, In these few words the book of Acts lays out the bare bones of Easter. They (human beings) killed… Read more
Mar2018
Witness to unity won on the cross
by Rob Edwards
As he prepared for his betrayal, arrest, ‘trial’ and death, Jesus prayed for the unity of all believers. Inspired by that prayer, churches at Rockhampton in Queensland will join for Easter in a powerful witness.
Apr2017
Easter changes everything
Nothing was the same after that Easter morning. Everything has changed, forever. God has the whole world in his hands. He has you in his hands.
Apr2017
Easter changes everything
by Bishop John Henderson
… while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb … (John 20:1 NRSV) Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, After the Palm Sunday bomb attacks last week against Egyptian Christians, one of the Coptic bishops in Australia wrote to me, ‘I just feel numb right now, we are in deep pain and… Read more
Mar2017
Because of Easter … terror is nothing to fear
by Reid Matthias
No-one is immune from the fear and the terror of war, but most people in Australia are insulated from the realities of it; the death and destruction and the torturous pain of loss has been left to other corners of the globe. But we still hear about the war – and the rumours of the faceless conflict.
