Opinion

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, ...

By Reverend Janet Staines The book of Ruth is a woman’s story. It holds the many tensions that are familiar to women’s stories: barrenness and fruitfulness, old age and youth, isolation and community, tradition and creativity, with the movement from emptiness to fullness. It is a story of a relationship between two women within whom resides the means of hope ...

By Rev Andrew Gunton, Moderator, Uniting Church in Australia Queensland Synod.  Do you have a close companion who supports you on your journey through life? Maybe if you’re fortunate enough, you might have a few people who continue to support you, to love you, and to hold you close in the times when the going gets tough. In the biblical ...

By Paul Wetzig, Project Officer – Discipleship. I’ve recently found myself in a couple of situations where I’ve had to engage with neighbours who have been less than neighbourly in the way they’ve treated me and, in some instances, deeply wounded me. Confronted by these situations, I’ve been forced to consider how it is that Jesus would ask me to ...