I am an evangelical. So let me for the moment confine my remarks to fellow evangelicals. If you are a non-evangelical, but want to read…
Some topics can never be exhausted, be it with one article or a hundred. Some issues keep cropping up which need to be addressed over…
There is plenty that we can learn from the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, especially when it comes to challenging a sleeping, compromising and errant church.…
One believer convinced about the soon return of the Lord described the signs of the times in terms of “the daily records of desolating earthquakes,…
The greater something is, the more likely it will be attacked. The greatest social institutions of all time, marriage and family, are now under severe…
Eerdmans, 2010. (Available in Australia at Koorong Books) Sadly, the Old Testament is often neglected by Christians, and the Minor Prophets do not get a…
When one’s sickness is severe, and one’s condition is terminal, then the need for radical measures is clearly called for. Any doctor knows that: the…
Let’s face it folks: Morally and spiritually speaking, Australia – or America, or England, etc – is now on a par with ancient Sodom and…
With 39 Old Testament books, and numerous new commentaries pouring off the press each year, it is hard to keep up with the latest and…
In what was once known as the free West, we are witnessing an escalation of totalitarian and anti-democratic laws being passed, which are greatly restricting…
One of the saddest and most shattering passages in the whole of the Bible is Psalm 137:1-4: “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and…
The unity of Christ’s followers is a strong emphasis in the Word of God. It is something which every believer is commanded to strive for.…
Last week Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, gave a very important speech at Oxford University. In the talk, “Varieties of Intolerance: Religious and Secular,”…
A few days ago there were press reports about Anglican and Catholic churches hosting Muslims during the Easter celebrations. Sponsored by the Australian Intercultural Society,…
In the recent film, The Children of Men (based on the 1992 P.D. James novel), illegal immigrants in a futuristic UK are rounded up and…
These are not easy days for atheists. Not only is their worldview a minority viewpoint, and a relatively recent one at that, but it may…
Broadman & Holman, 2006. Exodus is a pivotal book, a key volume not only in the Pentateuch but in the whole of the Hebrew bible.…
With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, translated into 44 languages, and a blockbuster film due out in mid-May, The Da Vinci Code has made…
Often when I make an appeal for Christian social involvement, I get some Christians who bring up various objections, most of which boil down to…