LENT: Boredom over Entertainment

Being involved in the Lutheran Church during school, Lent is quite familiar to me. I can appreciate the tradition and practicing fasting in preparation for Easter.  This Lent, Sam and I are giving up entertainment and making the Bible the only thing we consume....

The Bible Is Complex

From this short preaching series, ‘The Hard Sayings of Jesus’, we realise there are a lot of hard sayings in the bible. They are often small phrases that are challenging, hard hitting, and convict us to live differently. But some, or most, might be ‘hard sayings’...

Crossroads

There is a movie on Netflix at the moment called Outback. It’s about two American tourists who spontaneously change their road trip route from Sydney to Cairns by adding a detour to Uluru. They drive and drive and eventually get stranded in the desert. At one point in...

Journeying

We made it! We finished the gospel of Luke! This Sunday we will hear about the final scene, Luke 24:36-53. One of the major motifs in the book of Luke is the idea of ‘journeying’. Travelling to and from Jerusalem, the time on the road, the time it takes in walking...