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Our hope is not in the person in the White House or the Lodge, but in the King of Kings. This hope allows us to live non-anxiously with the messiness and brokenness of this world and its politics, knowing that our home and our security are not in a temporal country.

I remember my parents visiting Israel from our home in England in 1960, and I went on my own, as a 19-year-old non-Christian, in 1971 to volunteer on a kibbutz. I am sure this background planted seeds of my love for Israel.

For the past ten years, the Australian Prayer Network (APN) has been holding Watchmen Schools of Intercession all over the nation, with over 16,000 people having attended the Foundation Level course.

A major issue Paul had to deal with was the “super-apostles”. These were leaders and teachers (often false teachers) who tended to put their personalities, their prestige, and their power forward as their credentials. Today, things are no different, with celebrity preachers.

Because repentance (Hebrew "teshuvah") is a great theme of the Old Testament, it is also a great theme of Judaism. It is a theme found throughout the New Testament as well. In fact, it has been said that “‘repent’ is the first word of the Gospel.”

Most people know the story of the ‘birds and the bees’, but very few know that the story of ‘the flowers and the bees’ is a far more fascinating story with a hidden secret.

Jews are turning to the hope of Israel, Jesus Christ. One ministry has received 1,230 Israeli orders for New Testaments in Hebrew since the October 7 attack.

We must be careful that we do not end up being an empire builder, a kingdom builder. We must be very careful, in other words, that in our effort to serve the Lord, we do not get proud, and do not think we are going to be the next best Christian thing since the apostle Paul.

We are living in times of great shaking, times of refining and purifying. How should we respond? In the words of the Gospel song, and in the spirit of Isaiah 6, we should say, “Take the coal, touch my lips, here I stand.” Let the cleansing begin with me. Judgment begins with God’s household.

She believes that the Great Awakening has already begun in Australia, and that Discipleship will be a big emphasis as we will need so many to disciple the new Christians. There will be a new wave of Church Planting across this land.

Over time, I learned some "game-changing" truths that changed how I responded to feelings of anxiety. Truths — grounded in the Bible and the best of modern psychology — that serve me well to this day.

For Americans who used to dread June and its suffocating rainbow excess, this year feels different. A week into the obligatory LGBT pandering, and the storyline hasn’t been Pride — but Pride pushback.

Most of you know the story: God allowed him to go through some really hardcore adversity and suffering, yet Job did not curse God nor give up. He may not have had all the answers, but he had a deep faith in the God he served.

The Jewish world will celebrate Shavuot from 11th-13th June 2024 , and some believers who understand that the Lord moves significantly in the time of the feasts are also focusing on Shavuot.

We’re all drawn to transcendence – to worshipping someone or something bigger than ourselves. For earlier generations, God (or nation) filled that primal human need. But now other things are filling it.

Those seeking God and pressing in on Him will sometimes go through a period where it seems like God is silent, or has turned on them, or no longer cares about them. But God is faithfully looking after His own, and this dark spell is temporary, used to draw us even closer to Himself.

We may not have our names recorded in the Bible or in a newspaper today, but if we are faithful to our Lord, HE at least knows all about us. And our names ARE written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 21:27).

Russell Brand’s conversion to Christianity is a celebrity confession with a discernible difference. He was baptised in late April by Bear Grylls. Besides Brand’s updates, it’s the ferocity of heat coming from his haters that gives us good reason not to doubt his sincerity.

Pope Francis recently said in an interview that humans "are a little bit rogue and sinners" but that "the heart itself is good". This claim is worth examining in light of church history — and the horrors of last century.

God works in mysterious ways. How He draws people to Himself can vary greatly. He uses all sorts of means in which He can reveal Himself to people and draw them into relationship with Him.