I have said it before: one of the best ways to grow in your Christian faith, to be inspired, to be challenged, and to be…
OK, I am part of the old guard. For three decades I have been engaged in the culture wars here in Australia. While I am…
In my line of work I deal daily with those who are totally opposed to all that I value, cherish and believe in. So members…
In writing about theological issues one must bear in mind that biblical truths are bound together and must be understood together. As D. A. Carson…
The Victorian election is coming up in just three weeks (November 29). Here I want to focus on just one aspect of what Labor plans…
That huge numbers of Christians today are selling out big time concerning their faith is not surprising. We were warned about this 2000 years ago.…
OK, there is not much new one can say about books. They have been around for quite a while now. A couple of millennia ago…
It would seem pretty obvious that when a major Christian calendar event comes around, then Christian leaders of all people should be quite happy to…
John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was an English pastor, preacher, writer, and Bible expositor. He was part of a strong Wesleyan Methodist family; his great-grandmother was…
There used to be a time when universities were known for being bastions of freedom of speech in which openness to ideas and genuine intellectual…
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is one of my favourite writers, and his 1908 volume Orthodoxy is one of my favourite books. He was an English…
It took me less than five seconds to decide whether or not to keep a flyer I found in my mailbox. The 12-pager came from…
Why do people reject Christianity? It is a good question and there would be many answers one could give to it. What has become quite…
Thomas Nelson, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong books) This is an updated and expanded version of a book which first appeared in 1993. In…
(This is hopefully the first in an irregular series of articles about Christians of note – at least Christians who I have a lot of…
Crossway, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) In September 1980 Charles Malik gave a powerful talk on the need for evangelicals to reclaim the…
Apologetics seeks to do several things: present the attractiveness of the Christian faith; demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity; and clear up misconceptions and faulty understandings…
Eerdmans, 2000. Bio-ethics is a new and burgeoning field, affecting all of us. Issues like human cloning, genetic engineering, assisted reproductive technologies, genetically modified foods,…
An important early document on how Christians might deal with tyrants: One of the earliest Protestant statements on the place of resistance to wicked rulers…
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…