Opinion

By Rev Janet Staines, Minister – Chermside Kedron Community Church Sometimes we forgive too quickly. Yes, forgiveness is core to our discipleship and yes, in the midst of suffering and trial we are to posture ourselves towards forgiveness. But sometimes we forgive too soon. Forgiveness is a process. It is not a one-off act of grace we offer another or ...

By Vanessa Griffiths, Fundraising Support Manager I recently read an incredible book called “The Hidden Life of Trees” by Peter Wohlleben. If you walk in a forest, you may get the impression that trees are passive and silent but quite the opposite is true. Trees are interconnected with definite family structures like we have. They communicate with one another through ...

By Rev Bruce Moore, Moderator Have you ever found yourself in a place where you question or second guess decisions that you need to make? Maybe you find yourself overthinking things … over and over again. In a study that was undertaken recently with a sample of over 10,000 people, they asked the participants whether they struggle with overthinking. Guess ...

By Steve Drinkall, Manager, Mission Engagement Many of us have experiences of having God intervene in our lives to bring positive change, healing, protection, encouragement or even rescue. At different parts of our lives, we have found ourselves in a mess of some kind and have reached out to God asking for him to save us, fix us, help us, ...

By Cherylynne Gostelow, Principal and CEO Calvary Christian College I have learned that responding to God’s call is the (often) ‘hard’ (but always) right thing to do – especially when it makes no sense to me! Across my life, I have known what it is to be in the place to which God has called me and what it is ...

By Pastor Donna Muston, Rural Mission Ministry agent for the Presbytery of Central Queensland. Numbers 13: Moses was a great leader – we know that, but the wisdom of his leadership comes only from his deep relationship with God. In the Book of Numbers, starting in chapter 13, the time had now come for Moses to send a party of ...

By Rev. Noah Kim – Paradise Point Uniting Church. For the last 2000 years, this has been probably the most debated question in the world. For example, Richard Dawkins, who was a scientist and atheist, once said that Jesus was a great moral teacher. Gennady Zyuganov, a Russian politician, said that Jesus was the first communist. Rhonda Byrne, the author ...

By Alison Cox, Manager at Wesley Mission Queensland.  Sometimes God needs to strike us blind so that we will see. God gives us sight and forgives us. God can change and transform. And what should we do? Forgive others and do God’s work – based on the story of ‘Paul on the road to Damascus’. The young people who come ...

By Nicole Gregory – Principal of The Lakes College.  In this earthly life, we walk around blind to much of the world. While many of us are blessed to have all our senses, it isn’t until one or more of them are compromised that we become more in tune with both the light and the darkness surrounding us. When I ...

By Rev Heather den Houting, General Secretary Uniting Church in Australia, Queensland Synod I have always found the story of Paul, of being blinded so that you can see, absolutely extraordinary – both in a personal way but also for us as a church. We all need to understand that sometimes the hand of God has to be really obvious, ...