There are times in life when you really need a light. Driving home from Brisbane through last night’s intense rainstorms, as an east coast low sat stationery over the central coast, I was increasingly grateful for my own car’s headlights, the hazard lights of other cars, and those little “cat’s eyes” embedded in the motorway, as …
The light of a star
We may have packed away our tinsel and Christmas trees for another year, but the Christmas story doesn’t end with Christmas Day. The Gospel of Matthew tells us that “After Jesus was born … wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For …
The first place was a voice
No galaxies, no sun, no Earth, no oceans, no flora or fauna, no history, no you or me. Only the living God, who is Spirit. The Bible begins with this breathtaking sentence: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Those words serve as a doorway through which every conscientious reader of …
Carried by grace
What kind of year has it been? What have you learned? How have your challenges shaped you? How have you grown and changed? How would you personally rate the year 2025 on a scale of 1-10? For me, this year has been one of new experiences and new learning. I have been enlightened and inspired …
The grace that has appeared
Christmas Day as we experience it, and the roller-coaster preceding it, have evolved into a festival that is part cultural, part commercial, and part Christian. This is true throughout the Western world, from Santiago to Seoul, from Helsinki to Hobart. And especially here in Sydney. At the centre of our celebrations stands a season of generosity …
