This Life: Trusting God with the bigger picture
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on trusting God, even when our prayers aren’t answered as we’d like…
Sight-Seeing: The difference is hope
MATTHEW SMEAL reflects on the importance of hope…
Technology…or behaviour?
My daughter pointed out to me that in virtually all books written before the Industrial Revolution that imagine future time-travel, none of them imagine technological improvement. Rather they look at future human behaviour. PICTURE: Ales Nesetril/Unsplash. Technological improvements were inconceivable before the industrial revolution, now they are the focus of almost all future discussion. And behaviour is […]
This Life: Jesus is in our boat
SAMANTHA ELLEY writes about how, even as her life turned upside-down thanks to floods, she’s felt assured “Jesus is taking every muddy step with us”…
Delusional?
I can understand why people think Christians are delusional. Have you heard how we speak? “Trust God despite the circumstances.” PICTURE: Daniel Joshua/Unsplash We trust that God is there even when we don’t see it – especially when we don’t see it. There’s a word for that – delusional. Trust that God loves you when He’s […]
More US congregations are reopening but attendance remains flat – study
RNS Across the US, religious congregations have reopened, or reopened with some health restrictions still in place, after two long pandemic years, according to a new Pew Research survey. But there has been little or no rise in the number of people attending in-person religious services over the past six months, while the number of […]
Podcasts: ‘Soul-talk’ at its deepest
NILS VON KALM listens to New Zealander Barry Pearman’s podcast, Turning The Page…
The Interview: Daniel Wordsworth, CEO of World Vision Australia
A year since he took the reins at World Vision Australia, Daniel Wordsworth speaks with DAVID ADAMS about the challenges World Vision has faced during the pandemic, the concept of ‘belief fatigue’, and how his job is about bringing the Kingdom of God to Earth now…
Lifestory: A second chance at life after being diagnosed with stage four cancer
SAMANTHA ELLEY speaks to Australian Tony Dowling about his journey with God through cancer and his call to start photographic business Sunrise Daily…
Sight-Seeing: Developing a stubborn faith
NILS VON KALM on why the ongoing surrender of ourselves – despite our circumstances – is part of a life more firmly established in Christ…