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Our hope isn't in election results. It's in something deeper—in what God might be doing behind the scenes. While counterintuitive, this result could even be a cause for great rejoicing.

Climate mania is the grand theme of today’s social anxiety. Superstition transforms the unknown into tangible fears, after which it creates cause-and-effect connections everywhere. Each connection is a harbinger of worse to come. It seems to me that’s what has been created.

The emotional impact of the election of Donald Trump has been breathtaking, with responses ranging from hysterical despair through to something that approaches worship. Without God, humanity is without hope, always seeking a hero to put their faith in.

Insofar as the tide is turning against us, rejoice because, in my limited understanding, it means that God is at work. As God encroaches on Satan’s fiefdom, he will rage all the more, using people, governments, and social movements as his tools.

The talk has turned into reality, and we now have new laws to combat hate speech and vilification. You will have already worked out that hate speech laws are a two-edged sword. Put forward as being for protection, they can be equally used for control.

Adam Smith-Conner was convicted for silently praying near an abortion clinic. If we think these unjust measures restrict the power of prayer, we had better think again. Two remarkable testimonies of answered prayer demonstrate otherwise.

Where is God as darkened ideologies gather momentum? As Christians are increasingly targeted for arrest and nations posture on the edge of conflict? In the answer to that question, we find hope and joy because it leads us to the inexhaustible grace of God.

How does a man like Stangl take his briefcase to work, oversee the extermination of several thousand of his fellow human beings before lunch, do the necessary paperwork in the afternoon, then take his briefcase home and settle into the evenings? Is there something to learn from this?

Intention To pray for our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world Scripture ‘If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not [...]

I have a friend who lost his wife and all his children in Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. He is a committed Christian who spent much of his time working with and supporting Christian organisations. He was against the anti-life social policies that were emerging in [...]

It’s a given: we must never compromise the truth or the core issues of the Gospel. However, we do need to take care as to the manner, time and place of communicating what we believe to be true. Boldness and wisdom are needed in equal [...]

‘The unlikely protest anthem has even been embraced by non-religious protesters.’ This comment from our own ABC concerns the singing of the song ‘Sing Hallelujah to the Lord’ across the massive people movement in Hong Kong. That it is of sufficient significance to have our [...]

Senator Eric Abetz has taken up the cause of Israel Folau. He has taken the matter to the fair Work Commission, based on the fact that Israel was dismissed for expressing his Christian views outside the workplace. He stated, ‘The common understanding of the Fair [...]

How do you connect with a society that seems not only to have turned its back on you but is running away so fast that your words become almost inaudible in the slipstream? There are so many things we want to say. And we do [...]

We have a champion who has become our champion. Many articles proclaim this young footballer’s courage in taking a stand against publicly stand against a range of moral ills. ‘Our world needs’ such courage, one article proclaims. A champion, slammed by the media. Hailed by [...]

In his helpful and timely book, God Is Good For You, Greg Sheridan quotes the Cistercian Father Michael Casey on the modern postmodern movement. Drawing on the work of French sociologist, the late Jean Baudillard, Casey posits that the five qualities postmodernism lacks are ‘depth, [...]

My grandson plays soccer at a very junior level. Local club stuff. Kids just starting out on the great soccer adventure. In a recent game against a private school with the advantages of resident teacher-coach and all-week possibilities of training, the score became close to [...]