It’s getting late on a cold winter’s afternoon. The sun is dipping below the hills and the temperature is plummeting – another frosty night. People are heading home to turn on the heating, crank up the electric blanket and prepare a hearty, hot meal. Then they will lock their doors and go to bed without a second thought as to whether they will be safe through the night. But imagine there’s no home to go …
In 2018, LWSA-NT had their convention at Victor Harbor, which I attended. A report in the LWSA-NT Tidings newsletter said that Alice Springs Lutheran Community Care (LCC) Op Shop were giving away homemade fabric bags to people with their items purchased from the Op shop. I did not give this a lot of thought until I visited a craft market on the Fleurieu Peninsula, where a stall had bags made from Op shop pillowcases. They looked simple and easy to make. Just right for me to make while caravanning.
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INTRODUCTION In our last Bible study, we talked about the plan God had for Isaac and Rebekah. It turned out their love was real and inspired by God. They trusted his judgement and they fell in love in a short space of time and were married. But not everyone is blessed with the gift of a life partner. The truth is that sometimes God calls us to be single. As a matter of fact, the …
INTRODUCTION In Christian marriage, the union between a man and a woman is instituted and ordained by God in the lifelong relationship between one man, as husband, and one woman as wife. Have you ever found yourself wondering why a certain person you know isn’t married yet? Have you ever gone so far as to ask a single person why they’re not married? The question of who is married and who is not and why, …
Do you have a song which, after hearing it again, remains on your mind and in your head for days, even weeks? You find yourself singing it silently, sometimes aloud. One that especially comes to me is, ‘What can wash away my sin’. I try to work out if it is the words, the music, the combination of the two, or the truths in the song: What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the …
At church today, I was reminded of our wedding 47 years ago by the entry Psalm 37:1-18 but especially our chosen verses 37:3-5. Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord trust in him and he will give you this. At the time, when I was young …
‘That is not the way to look at it’, my friend at the youth group used to say to me as a child. WWJD is the abbreviation that she would use. If you haven’t heard that for a while, it means ‘What Would Jesus Do’. Changes: are we ever prepared for these? In many situations can you prepare yourself? As I grow up through the different cycles of my life, I have come to realise …