We must avoid like the plague fake Christians pushing fake gospels: When Donald Trump popularised the notion of “fake news” he was certainly onto something.…
Mass crises have struck us before, and we need to learn from history how Christians have responded: In dark times, the light of Christ is…
As is so often the case, a good thing can be perverted and end up causing great harm. This can be true of compassion when…
This may be news to a lotta folks, but compassion is not a synonym for being brainless. Caring should not involve throwing away your brains…
Does showing compassion make one a hypocrite? No, of course not – well, at least not necessarily. But I have seen far too many people…
The real tragedy about the tragic loss of life at Christmas Island yesterday is that it need not have occurred. And one of the best…
Bob Brown’s version of social justice is to kill people from womb to tomb. In the perverted and dysfunctional morality of the Greens, compassion means…
The throw-away term ‘compassion’ today covers a multitude of sins. It seems that any behaviour, lifestyle and belief system can today be justified by simply…
There has been a lot of debate lately about the issue of heroin injecting rooms. Voices from all sides are being heard on the issue,…
By Thomas Schmidt. IVP, 1995. The debate about homosexuality revolves around a number of crucial and controversial subjects: human sexuality and emotions, politics, religion, the…
Thoughts on the attack on Bishop Emmanuel: OK, a mouthful of a title, but you know where I am heading with this. Just two days…
Great truths from this great preacher: If one cannot get to read all the many great books penned by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the next best thing…
Can God ever forget us? Yesterday I penned a piece on forgetfulness. I looked at two types of this, from a spiritual perspective. When we…
There is good and bad forgetfulness: We all have moments of forgetfulness. Obviously as you get older this can become an evermore pressing problem. Dementia…
We all can learn to be better helpers and carers: Most Christians would know something about Job and the Old Testament book that deals with…
Some great truths that we need to keep in mind: Back in 1959 the late great J. I. Packer gave a series of talks at…
‘Conveyor belts’ of fake conversions and immigration scams: In the past Christian missionaries in places like India had to be careful of “rice Christians.” These…
We must be aware of Harari’s brave new world: One does not need to be a “conspiracy theorist” to know that there are some pretty…
Another must read-volume by Bennett: I am always interested in alerting people to good books. One way to do this is through book reviews, of…