(This is hopefully the first in an irregular series of articles about Christians of note – at least Christians who I have a lot of…
Eerdmans, 2009. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Gordon Fee has long been one of our finest New Testament scholars. His numerous works in the…
At the very core of the Christian truth claims is the belief that Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again in order to deal with…
The Christian life is described in various ways in the New Testament. Various metaphors and images are used to depict the life of the disciple…
CityHarvest, 2007. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) Father Zakaria is a modern day Apostle Paul. Like Paul, he has evangelised extensively around the world…
Jesus Christ is so committed to his church that he will do whatever it takes to make sure believers get their act together and not…
No, I didn’t get it wrong: I did not mistakenly leave a word out of my title. While I certainly have Matt. 7:1 in mind,…
There is no question that the church of Jesus Christ in Australia (and in much of the Western world) is not exactly in great shape.…
Eerdmans, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong books) David Wells has trained his incisive intellect on the big issues of theology, the life of the…
That there are plenty of secularists who are happy to push the homosexual agenda is not so surprising. What is surprising, and sad, is when…
Eerdmans, 2007. This is the third important conservative commentary on Matthew to appear in the past decade; the other two being by Keener (1999) and…
Baker, 2004. I begin by reiterating what I said in part 1: much of the message of this book needs to be heard. But because…
We live in an age that is hesitant about, or indifferent to, the use of reason, study, mental discipline and religious education. Truth is under…
Baker, 2005. Paul Copan is a rising star in Christian apologetics and philosophy. He has written a number of excellent titles defending the Christian faith,…
Early this year Prime Minister John Howard stirred up a hornet’s nest of indignation when he made some comments about the trend towards private education.…
Eerdmans, 2003. How have the forces of modernization and globalization impacted on the institutions of marriage and family? Is the decline of marriage in the…
Eerdmans, 2001. When one considers that the institutions of marriage and family were the first ordained by God, preceding even the State or the Church,…
Martin Niemoller was a decorated submarine commander in WW I, an ardent nationalist and a pastor in Germany. At first he welcomed the rise to…
Most of us are aware of the tragic civil wars taking place in countries like the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. These conflicts have split apart…