It all started with that first wobbly ride on a friend’s new motorbike. He managed twice around the block without coming to grief — and he was hooked. Two weeks later, while on holidays in Adelaide, on impulse 21-year-old Ben Mogg bought a Suzuki GSX 250 and arranged for it to be sent home to Mt Gambier on the train.

by Rebecka Colldunberg In April a bus load of young people and parents from Immanuel Lutheran Church, Buderim, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast headed to flood-devastated Grantham to offer their love and elbow grease. The students, aged from 11 to ...

by Linda Macqueen ‘A very moving experience. It brought me even closer to my Maker’, said Brian Thiele after visiting Immanuel Lutheran Church’s prayer stations. ‘Thanks for such a wonderful, sensory way to connect us to Jesus and to each other, a...

by Jenny Lange After the disastrous floods in Australia earlier this year and then the earthquake in New Zealand, the Welfare Committee at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Ringwood, in Melbourne, decided to do something to raise funds to support peo...

by Reid Matthias It’s when darkness sets in and the stars begin their nocturnal swim through the night sky thatI remember I am not living on the plains of the Midwestern United States. When I look up, as if in a snowless snowglobe the sparkling ba...

by Reid Matthias It’s when darkness sets in and the stars begin their nocturnal swim through the night sky thatI remember I am not living on the plains of the Midwestern United States. When I look up, as if in a snowless snowglobe the sparkling ba...

by Luke Doecke   Three years ago Darryl Pittman was undertaking a 43-week rehabilitation program for his long-term addiction to alcohol. It was during this program that he met Ian Watson, founder of Shed Night, who had come to speak with the men a...

Queensland’s Sunshine Coast was once a string of small holiday towns. It is now the tenth largest urban area in Australia and each week 150 more people make it their home. This is a big challenge for the Lutherans at St Marks, Caloundra. The cong...

Check out another version of this story in Luke18:9-14 Like anyone, I’ve had my ups and downs. There was a time in my mid-40s when I felt as if I had really got on top of things. I had spent the previous 20 years ticking all the boxes: education, ...