SU Victoria

Dudley J Deleffs calls on his experience in counseling to offer
means and strategies to deal with emotional pain and wounds to heart and soul. Knowing that the busyness of life can create a block to finding a space in which to reconnect with God when we are distanced or hurting, Deleff offers ideas and references for breaking out of pain and returning to wholeness in God.

This tiny place off the north-east coast of England is a most famous site of saints, Christian heroes and last stands. A must-visit place for anyone visiting the UK, this book by David Adam, the Reverence Vicar of Lindisfarne for 13 years, offers a wonderful sense of all there is to discover at Lindisfarne, and how major a part it has played in Christian history.

The all-Knowing and loving God described through the magnificence of nature and the universe. An engaging and stimulating DVD for individuals, groups and Youth groups.
40 mins running time

Louie Giglio presents another very watchable DVD which speaks of the magnificence and passion of God as displayed in the fascinating cosmos. Amazing visuals of stars and galaxies as Giglio tells you things about them that heighten your sense of awe and the greatness of the One who made all this.
A great DVD for individuals, groups and youth events.
Running time 43 mins

‘Do we worship Jesus or an institution?’
So asked Australian Veronica Brady, activist, writer and catholic nun. Kath Jordan gives us this scintillating biography of a woman who is remembered amongst Christians, academics and politicians as one of our ‘most precious assets’ (although some would say Pope John Paul used to wake up every morning saying “Is she dead yet?”)

In this book, Parker J Palmer guides through an honest process of listening to the voice of the Spirit as ‘inner teacher’ to find our own unique sense of calling and purpose. For anyone who is ‘not sure’ about what they are meant to be doing, or who feels themselves to be subject to despondency or darkness, this book is a most helpful shared journey towards knowing where to be and where to go.

For those with a passion for the delightful gift God gave us when dogs were created, this book is full of tales of the Love, Commitment and Enduring Friendship we receive from those very best friends of humankind – dogs!

Local author Ash Barker shares first hand experience of the richness and life experienced when we follow Christ into sharing the daily reality of the majority of the world’s population.
The Bible repeatedly calls for the end of poverty and consequent oppression and suffering. Ash Barker and his family have answered the call with conviction and action and this book is a powerful testimony to what God does when we answer the call.

The surprising and illuminating writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Mother Theresa. Her struggles with feelings of disconnection from God and spiritual emptiness are a bittersweet reminder that even those regarded as the greatest of Christians deal with the same doubts and droughts so many of us experience.
A remarkable book about this famous woman whose death, eclipsed as it was by the death of Princess Diana at around the same time, was as unassuming as her life.

For the secular age we live in, and all those who are skeptical of “organised religion” (so-called!) and institutions, one of the forms of Christianity that remains universally respected and appealing is monasticism. Signs of fresh life, based on ancient traditions, are springing up around the world, including in Australia and Victoria, as Christians seek new forms of the monastic Christian life. This communal, sacrificial and missional way of following Christ may be one of the ways that Christians show the reality of the goodness and radical nature of Christ through their own radical committment to that can actually be said to be ‘different from everybody else’.
By Graham Cray, Ian Mobsby and Aaron Kennedy.