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- Finding stillness when Christmas feels overwhelmingChristmas is often presented as a season of sparkling lights, generous meals and uncomplicated joy. Yet for many people, December brings a crowded calendar,…
- When Serving Others Means Letting Them Stand Beside YouChristian service is often pictured as a strong person carrying a heavy load for everyone else. In a church community, that image can feel admirable,…
- Held in the valley: a testimony of healing after miscarriageThe email arrived on a Tuesday morning in late winter, the kind of crisp Adelaide morning when the eucalyptus outside the kitchen window catches the morning…
- Helping your teen navigate doubt without judgmentWhen your teenager starts asking hard questions about faith, your first instinct may be to defend the tradition you love, or to quickly redirect the…
- Why Our Family Began Walking the Streets in Prayer Each WeekIt started on a Tuesday arvo in the outer suburbs of Brisbane, when our youngest asked why we never seemed to know the names of the people three doors down.…
- How Learning a New Hymn Together Draws a Couple CloserTwo people sitting on a back verandah with a worn hymnal open between them — that is often where the quiet beginnings take shape. There is no spotlight, no…
- The Quiet Discipline Behind My Grandfather's Daily Prayer ListEvery weekday morning before the sun crested the hills behind his brick house in Adelaide, my grandfather would settle into the same oak chair at the kitchen…
- How to Pray for Your City by Walking Its StreetsAcross centuries and continents, believers have laced up their shoes and stepped outside to pray. The practice has worn many names — prayer walking, gospel…
- When your faith feels like a duty, not a delightThere are seasons when prayer feels like another item on a crowded list, Bible reading becomes a box to tick, and church attendance carries the weight of…
- When a Church Steps Into a School and Changes a GenerationThe whiteboard in the staffroom still carries the date a pastor from a small inner-city congregation first walked through the front office and asked, plainly,…
