We all know that babies, toddlers and very small children are pretty helpless and hopeless at looking after themselves. They need all sorts of help,…
I read this interesting bit of news recently: evidently there are 150 revivals taking place in the world right now, but almost none of them…
We all know of churches which have sought to make themselves “relevant”. Whenever you hear about this happening, you should run for your lives. Really.…
“A Christian leader in central Iowa has abducted an Imam’s daughter and forced her to convert to Christianity with the backing of a Christian court,…
I often have planned to write a piece like this, but then I would think I should wait until the month set aside for this…
The Bible is full of warnings about apostasy. The term means to deliberately renounce or reject one’s faith commitment. It is an act of defiance…
In the nineteenth century, most Christians remained silent about the horrors of slavery. In the twentieth century most Christians remained silent about the horrors of…
This phrase has a neat ring to it, especially to some Protestants. It certainly sounds very spiritual. It is often used as a kind of…
The amount of frenzied anti-Christian bigotry is increasing by the day, with PC zealots working overtime to harass and persecute Christians any way they can.…
We live in an age in which no group or person is allowed to be offended, vilified or discriminated against – except Christians that is.…
Baker, 2007. (Available in Australia at Koorong books) Yes and no is how I respond to this book. Yes, we all have failed to properly…
Baker, 2009. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) A. W. Tozer once rightly said, “Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aid to the life…
(This is hopefully the first in an irregular series of articles about Christians of note – at least Christians who I have a lot of…
The ongoing assault on all things Christian continues unabated. Every day around the Western world new reports emerge of Christian persecution, anti-Christian bigotry and moonbeam…
Christians have a wide range of views on all sorts of issues. Thus it is not surprising that they may agree to disagree on issues…
Presbyterian and Reformed, 2008. (Available in Australia from Koorong Books) I am very impressed with this book. It really does an outstanding job of providing…
There were two recent news items which had to do with Islam. The first seemed to indicate that Islam is in the ascendency, while the…
I just returned from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in Melbourne, where the two Christian pastors have been found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The…
On Friday December 17 two Christian pastors were found guilty of vilifying Muslims. The decision, handed down in Melbourne, could mark the beginning of the…
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…