Where is your hope? What do you live for?
With the Australian federal elections this week, how do we recognise good leadership? What does it mean to be a good leader for us?
This past week I’ve heard the story of the prodigal son from two different speakers and they both brought great new insight to this already profound story. Maybe we might be able to relate with the younger son who ungratefully asked for his inheritance and recklessly spent it all on useless things. Some of us might be able to relate with the father who worried deeply for his young son whom he described as dead and lost and constantly hoping that he would come to his senses. And perhaps some of us might be able to relate with the older brother who felt like he had faithfully served the father without being appreciated for the hard work.
Why is health important? How does it impact our spirituality?
While browsing the news this week I came across some sad news. Tam, one of the last remaining Sumatran Rhinos, has died. I guess it’s not really up there with some of the really terrible stuff in the news but it is symptomatic of how humans, as a whole, are treating the earth.
Our guest speaker Pastor Peter Roennfeldt shares a workshop on a different way to share our faith.
1See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
The wild animals honor me,
the jackals and the owls,
because I provide water in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosenthe people I formed for myself
that they may proclaim my praise. Isaiah 43: 19-21
So it rained properly in Alice Springs last weekend. For the first time in a long time.
When I lived in a city, rain was a bit of a nuisance. It made it harder to get places and do things.
Here in Alice it is a major event.
Pain.
Conjures up many ideas – mostly negative ones. You may think of your back, an old injury that plays up. You may think of emotional pain. It may be something that never seems to go away.
How can we battle our worries?
We make decisions every day – from the moment we wake up to the moment we fall asleep. What impacts our choices? How can we make better decisions?