Common Dreams 5: Sydney 2019

Common Dreams 5: Sydney 2019

Aug 28, 2019 | INSPIRING

“Sacred Earth, Original Blessing, Common Home” For four inspirational July days, about three hundred people gathered at Newington College, on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, for the 5th Common Dreams Conference. As one of those people, this was a...
Sep 1 2019: Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sep 1 2019: Luke 14:1, 7-14

Aug 26, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE

Jesus is our mentor in the ways of faithful living.  Jesus is dining at a Pharisee’s home.  In Luke, the writer shows Jesus as friendly with the Pharisees, supporting the Pharisees’ view of the Resurrection of the righteous. Jesus tells a story about a banquet to call...
25 August Luke 13: 10 – 17

25 August Luke 13: 10 – 17

Aug 20, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE

Jesus was constantly being watched by the religious leaders of the time. They were always looking for ways to catch Him out and were trying to always prove His methods as being wrong. They were jealous of His teaching, the way that He healed people and the way that...
19 August Ecclesiastes 1: 2, 14 Hosea 11: 1-11

19 August Ecclesiastes 1: 2, 14 Hosea 11: 1-11

Aug 20, 2019 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, all is vanity! I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after the wind. The Hebrew word for vanity, means transitory and unsatisfactory, fleeting, like the wind.  “What is vanity? What...
What have I witnessed?

What have I witnessed?

Aug 19, 2019 | PRAYERS

What have I witnessed? The blood and sweat of birth The darkness of depression The lightness of being The four letters of life The suffering painfulness The kingdom creeping (delete any and insert your own) Thanks be to...