Pastor of Tamborine Mountain Presbyterian Church Kim Dale writes a monthly column on issues of faith, both on a personal and at a community level.
At Christmas time we focus on Jesus, the baby in the manger. What an understated beginning for he who c...
In this turbulent time of Israel’s history, when the nation would soon disappear from the geopolitical sc...
No, what happened was far more subtle but much more powerful and significant for the human race. God became...
This is not an easy thing to do. Yes, God is at work in us, and he guarantees an unimaginably good outco...
Forgiveness can be easily misunderstood as an accommodation to evil to keep the peace. It can also be mi...
And some of us have heard those well-meaning words, ‘don’t give up, there is still hope’. I heard them ...
A while ago I went to hear a speaker who helped me a great deal as a young Christian in the early 70’s. ...
There is an old saying, ‘You are what you eat’. I’m sure there is some truth in that saying but it certainly...
There is an old song (Psalm 73) in the Bible, kind of a blues song, where the singer (a choir director named Asa...
You would think that now with all our ‘downtime’ resulting from less work or no work people would be resting u...
One of them basic teachings of the Christian faith is the resurrection. Both the resurrection of Jesus Christ...
We are in the midst of a health crisis that most of us have not faced before. It is having knock on effe...
Recently I came across a brief description of the church in the middle of the sixteenth century. It said that west...
Christmas can be a season of mixed feelings. ‘Joy to the World’ is difficult to sing for someone recently g...
Christmas is a time where many churches hold services that are intended to reach out into the community....
I recently came across an ancient and beautiful verse from the Psalms.‘Faithfulness springs forth fro...
There is a devious metanarrative (big story about the meaning of life) permeating our culture.It is a self-s...
I recently had the privilege of listening to a close friend who spoke openly about the lack of hope in h...
In one of the Apostle Paul’s New Testament letters he writes that he is astonished at how quickly some Christ...
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