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Neglecting our Judaeo-Christian heritage, and pretending that we are a united nation despite the widening cracks, will not help Australia move forward and flourish. Watching the Australia Day celebrations whilst on holiday was much more interesting and revealing than I had anticipated. Normally, I am [...]

1 Out of the depths I cry to You, LORD; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let Your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. 3 If You, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand? 4 But with You there is forgiveness, [...]

1 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. 2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” 3 The [...]

81 My soul faints with longing for Your salvation, but I have put my hope in Your word. 82 My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I say, “When will You comfort me?” ~ Psalm 119:81-88 The Christian life is not always easy. It is [...]

Psalm 119:33-40 Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. Direct me in the path of your commands, for there [...]

Psalm 119:25-32 I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word. I gave an account of my ways and you answered me; teach me your decrees. Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on [...]

Psalm 119:17-24 – Please read the whole section Be good to your servant while I live, that I may obey your word. 18Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law. 19I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands [...]

Psalm 119:9-16 How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.10 I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. 11 I have hidden your word in my heart that I [...]

After the shock resignation of Gladys Berejiklian, Dominic Perrottet has been voted leader of the NSW Liberal Party and Premier of NSW. Does anyone outside of the Liberal party, the political media and the chattering classes, care? Those of us who are Christians should; firstly [...]

Psalm 119: Please read vv. 1-8 “I will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws. I will obey your decrees, do not utterly forsake me.” Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible. Each stanza begins with a different [...]

Psalm 118: Please read the whole Psalm: Let those who fear the LORD say: “His love endures forever.” 5 When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place. 6 The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. [...]

Psalm 117 Please read the whole Psalm: “Praise the LORD,all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. 2 For great is his lovetoward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.” This psalm is quoted in Romans 15 by Paul, to [...]

What shall I return to the LORD for all his goodness to me? 13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD. 14 I will fulfil my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his [...]

1 Not to us, LORD, not to us but to Your name be the glory, because of Your love and faithfulness. 2 Why do the nations say, “Where is their God?” 3 Our God is in Heaven; He does whatever pleases Him. ~ Psalm 115 [...]

5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back? 6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 Who [...]

5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One Who sits enthroned on high, 6 Who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? 7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. ~ Psalm [...]

Intention We have endured much contempt. From the depths, we look to God and ask Him to pour out His Spirit on this land. Scripture “Have mercy on us Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured no end of contempt.”— Psalm 123:3 Reflection [...]

Intention We can praise the Lord because He bends down and listens to our cries for mercy. Scripture “I love the Lord, for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy.”—Psalm 116:1 Reflection Psalm 116 is a song about death—about how the cords [...]

Intention Our cries for help do not go unheard. Because of Christ, God hears our prayers and responds to us with His mercy. Scripture “Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are [...]