Several religious press releases have just been uncovered which believers should be aware about. They alert us to ancient developments in attempts at interfaith dialogue…
I regularly challenge fellow believers not to ignore the Old Testament. After all, it is part of the Christian Bible, and it in fact comprises…
I have written about holiness before, and I have written about J.C. Ryle before, but so impressed am I about the man and his writings,…
The answer to the question, “Why aren’t more nonbelievers becoming believers?” is quite simple really. Why in the world would they want to? When it…
OK, when was the last time you heard a sermon warning against worldliness? I suspect for most believers it would have been a very long…
Sixty-five years ago the world celebrated Victory in Europe Day. On May 8, 1945, the official surrender of Germany was accepted by the Allies, and…
Back in 1973 an important book by David Augsburger appeared entitled Caring Enough to Confront. It was a powerful reminder to believers that we have…
In something straight out of a George Orwell novel, the Victorian government has recently appointed an MP to become ‘Minister for Respect’. With all due…
One very significant – yet often neglected – Old Testament passage is Numbers 11:29. There Moses says this: “I wish that all the LORD’S people…
We have plenty of examples of green Chicken Littles insisting that the sky is falling. The trouble is, when we listen to them, heed their…
21stCentury Press, 2009. https://www.exodusfromdarkness.org.au/ (Also available in Australia at Koorong Books) This is the powerful and inspiring story of an Iranian who went from being…
I have been both thinking a lot and writing a lot about persecution lately. Persecution of Christianity that is. And not in far away totalitarian…
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…
Jesus once said that a prophet is without honour, except in his own country. One of the greatest Australian prophets of the past century has…
Followers of Jesus are meant to be asking hard questions. Now I don’t mean we should be asking a middle-aged woman her age. Nor do…
It always amazes me how those activist groups who most go on and on about tolerance and acceptance and peace and love are often the…
While it is perhaps presumptuous of me to broach such an important topic, it is worth giving it a try. In particular, I want to…
As has already happened in Western Europe and Canada, and some American states, the US as a nation is now on the verge of passing “hate-crime”…
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…