(Download wallpapers below ). In our “swipe-right” culture, we are addicted to the linear progression of “ more .” We want to read more chapters, finish more devotionals, and check off more spiritual goals. Sometimes we can even treat reading our Bibles like a race to be run. But what if the goal isn’t to get through the Word, but to let the Word get through to us? What if, for this entire year, you read just one verse?! The “slow thinking” of the soul In her book Our Unforming , Cindy S Lee...

A sermon preached 21 December 2025, at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Buderim, Qld, Australia. See YouTube here . This last week has been labelled “the darkness week in recent Australian history.” What happened at Bondi on 14 December 2025 was evil and shouldn't have happened. We pray for wisdom that our leaders can, to the best of their ability, find ways to prevent similar violence in the future. The events at Bondi last weekend seem to fly in the face of everything we have been longing for this...

(A sermon preached at Immanuel Gardens residential care, 10 December 2025). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We often look for signs of peace in this world. When nations are at war, we look for the signal that the fighting has stopped. For thousands of years, that signal has been a simple piece of white cloth. History tells us that this tradition goes back to the ancient world. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote about the use of white flags to indicate...