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Men and boys are struggling mentally, physically, academically, economically, and spiritually because of the absence of fathers, the failures of our education system and policies, and changes in both the job market and our culture.

If you value freedom, personal autonomy and the right to decide how you should make any transaction, then reject the push for a cashless society.

At this time of year, we are reminded of how the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ offers those who turn to Him in faith and repentance newness of life in this world, but also eternal life with our own resurrection bodies. What a phenomenal reality Easter commemorates.

This shows us the seriousness of the false prophets. They put the lives of everyone at risk. Jackals are known for inhabiting ruined and desolate places, tending to themselves. They do not contribute anything of use, but are just scavengers.

If God can use a sleazeball like Samson, then it seems He can even use someone like you and me. That should be a reassuring thought to most of us.

It is always bad when we forget our Lord and what He has done for us. We all do it far too often. And for that, we do deserve His wrath. But the good news is, in His deep, deep love for us, He actually forgets our sin and disobedience and waywardness.

Everywhere, we see love being smashed, crushed and destroyed. So many people are walking wounded, having never known what it is to really be loved and accepted and embraced.

The Supreme Court in the American state of Alabama has ruled that frozen embryos are indeed human persons and thus have the same rights to life as humans who have been born.

What America once did with its defence of life has now been fully reversed in France. It has become the first nation on earth to make abortion a constitutional right.

Monica Smit was one of Australia’s champion resistance fighters during the Covid wars – and she still is. She keeps fighting the good fight for freedom and resisting repulsive Big Brother statism.

We must seek to get the biblical balance: neither denying that God can do miracles, even today, nor insisting that we can snap our fingers and get God to show up with the fireworks, whenever we want.

That the miraculous is real is a given for Christians, since we know that God exists, and that He interacts with our world. But the question that needs to be addressed here is this: Can some believers over-rely on signs and wonders at times?

One cannot accuse Scripture of whitewashing things, or just painting a rosy picture about life. It presents things as they really are, warts and all. And that includes God’s people who get depressed, discouraged and question whether God is even there.

The most obvious issue is this: if you are going to spend $100 million on ads for a highly watched television event, you would think that getting the core message of Jesus out there would be paramount.

It is just too easy – certainly in the larger churches – for people to simply slip through the cracks. A person can be gone from church for quite a while, but they can easily be overlooked or forgotten.

The Israeli philosopher, historian, transhumanist, homosexual and atheist Yuval Noah Harari is about as bad as it gets when it comes to his pronouncements about who we are, where we should be heading, and how we should get there.

Jesus alone saves us. But we work with God in seeking to become more Christlike and more obedient. So we do need to always keep humble before God and keep asking Him to show us areas in our lives that need to be dealt with. This will be a lifelong process.

Why not let the homeless sleep in our churches? Just a few moments of reflection would reveal a host of serious problems and obstacles.

Divine presence is not the only way to summarise the scriptural story, but it is one very important way to describe it. So, as I say, why not do yourself a big favour and get stuck into Genesis today?

Even God’s great saints can feel quite down and wonder if their lives are really worth anything. Last night I was again musing on such things, but God brought 3 surprising things my way today to show me maybe I do have a real reason to be here, and some good can be done by our lives.