Learning to follow Jesus in 21st Century Australia
We can all have things in our lives that we love. Sometimes, our love for those things can be so strong that we can reject, dismiss or even hate other things. For example, we might love chocolate so much that we never eat lollies, or the other way around. We might love our football team... Continue Reading →
In recent decades we have seen a dramatic increase in online shopping. It doesn’t seem too long ago that most of the goods we purchased were bought in local stores with shop assistants helping us. Especially during the COVID pandemic when people in Australia and across the world were confined to our homes, we began... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago we talked about the heart of the Christian message being love: trusting God’s love for us in Jesus and loving others the way Jesus loved us. One way the Bible describes this love is 1 Corinthians 13. We talked about growing in our capacity to love others in 1 Corinthians... Continue Reading →
Have you ever looked at a menu and found it hard to decide what to order because there were so many good choices? Sometimes we can go to a restaurant or café and something on the menu appeals to us, so we choose it straight away. At other times, however, there can be so many... Continue Reading →
People use a few different objects to try to explain the Trinity, or the Christian belief that there is one God who makes himself known to us in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For example, an apple or egg is one item which has three parts. Apples have skin, flesh and core, while... Continue Reading →
When you meet someone for the first time, what do you tell them about yourself? We could probably start with our name because that is the simplest way of sharing who we are with people, but what would you say after that? Some might talk about what we do for a living, our family, our... Continue Reading →
We all have things we love. For some, it might be an activity such as playing sport, doing a craft, or gardening. Others might love something they own, for example a car, photographs of loved ones, or their phone. We all have people in our lives that we love, such as family members, friends, or... Continue Reading →
For the last four weeks, people from our parish have been getting together to discuss Ministry with Young People. The last two Wednesday evenings we looked at a book from the Fuller Youth Institute called Growing Young. This book is based on research the Fuller Youth Institute did in the USA on churches who are... Continue Reading →
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