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Many people experience grief over abortion – not just the woman who has had the abortion, but the fathers, grandparents, siblings; anyone who knows about the abortion can suddenly feel overwhelmed and powerless.

Adoption is God’s idea, and it is a great idea! God wants every child to be embraced by someone who will care for them, protect and provide for and most of all love them. His perfect plan can also mean, “He marked out our horizon [destiny] beforehand.”

A brephos is a brephos inside the womb or outside the womb. A baby is a baby in the womb or after birth. As Christians, we know this instinctively, and I am convinced the world does too.

Compassion is a huge part of our heavenly Father’s character and ways! Jesus was constantly moved by compassion for people. He also taught parables highlighting the characteristic of compassion as a vital part of Heaven’s Kingdom culture.

I miss my son today. That goes without saying, I suppose, since I miss him every day. But on this day, the pain is particularly sharp, the ache especially deep. I miss my friend and brother; I miss my protégé.

We were all once embryos! That unites us, one to the other. God made us all in the womb — the weak, the helpless, the unborn, the disabled, the slave, all of us. Therefore, let us be compassionate to all.

The Lord is near to everyone, and He wants us to learn to give Him our pain, fear, and unforgiveness. We can always be true to what we feel, and not ignore or bury what is going on inside of us. He is the best counsellor.

As we stand for truth, there is sometimes a danger of viewing people based on their camp and forgetting something common to all humanity. All of us are sinners, and all of us deserve God’s wrath.

Jesus demonstrated compassion and mercy wherever He went, and there was always fruit for every interaction. May His body of believers do likewise in these days of great trial.

Pregnancy help is hard to find in Australia. With Christian churches present in every suburb of Australia, the infrastructure is already there. Pray that the church would respond and arise to start a hub of love, a pregnancy help service that reflects the heart of our Father.

Our God is a God of wonderful love – a transforming love, an everlasting love, a realistic love, a saving love, a costly love. This is why ashes are transformed into a crown of beauty, mourning is replaced by joy, and a spirit of despair becomes a garment of praise.

The Bible speaks in Psalm 91:6 about ‘the sudden destruction that lays waste at noonday’. Today, let us pray for those in the womb, the precious lives given by the Lord -- that they will also be hidden and rescued from this demonic evil.

The Bible clearly teaches the personhood of those in the womb through its description of John the Baptist. When Mary the mother of Jesus became pregnant, she went and visited Elizabeth, her relative...

A pregnancy help worker once shared a story about how our 'lens' changes when we 'welcome' every person as 'Jesus in disguise'. Sometimes, hospitality can be risky and often confronting. Yet, it is this Christ-centred hospitality that sets pregnancy centres apart.

Let the love of the Lord bring light and truth to rescue those who are in danger of being aborted. Let His love well up in us and flow out of us like rivers of living water, bringing refreshment and life everywhere we go and in all that we do today.

Let’s intercede for our nation – for the women in fear and at risk of having an abortion. For those suffering post-abortion trauma and grief, for the political battles for babies born alive, and for the multifaceted issue of abortion.

The Bible describes Jesus as both the Lion and the Lamb. But what does this mysterious dual identity actually mean?

Thrown in a communist jail in the USSR for starting an underground church, Dmitri discovered the powerful truth of 'Christ in you, the hope of glory'.

Following Jesus is not for the fainthearted. It involves risk and radical surrender, but it is the only way to true life.

Christmas is the season of merry interruption — the time we pause to remember God interrupting our world by sending Jesus as the Saviour of the world.