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As I waited for the train home at an increasingly crowded Wynyard station, I caught a glimpse of the new Sydney Morning Herald advert. What struck me was the picture of someone holding a Bible. If the purpose of an advert is to get your [...]

This is one of the most moving videos you will see this year. It involves a young, thirty-year-old woman named Jane Marczewski who currently has cancer in her lungs, spine and liver. She has been given a 2% chance of survival. Marczewski -- who goes [...]

A clarion call to a different way of life and church. Foreword In coming to these potentially explosive conclusions, that our typical church service is irrelevant, impotent and decrepit, I am at the same time immediately struck by the life and abundance in many individuals [...]

Part 4 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we have previously covered, both Jesus himself and his apostles were fully convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In Part 4 of this series on Jesus [...]

Is there hope for the West? How will things pan out? It always happens: whenever I am out speaking somewhere, talking about the culture wars, the loss of freedoms, and the assault on faith, I am always asked about how I see the future. Can [...]

This is John on his arrival back in Brisbane after travelling overseas on his first holiday in a very, very long time. When I met John on a fateful evening in March 2016 in a park in Aspley, he never thought he’d be where he [...]

Lack of Civility on Centre-Stage Due to social media storms and loud protests, four venues in Melbourne cancelled their bookings for a World Congress of Families event in 2014. Many state and federal MPs also pulled out. A spokesperson for the Coalition to Beat Back [...]

Last week, independent Adelaide news site InDaily ran a scare story entitled The Divine Right: Pentecostal recruitment drive divides SA Libs. Its apparent aim was to spook secular Australians about the increasing involvement of Christians in electoral politics. “Senior Liberals are actively recruiting Pentecostals,” the [...]

Editor’s Note: this story was sent in to us by Corneliu, who took part in the GO21 month of prayer and evangelism during May. ___ Recently, I had my iPhone up for sale on Gumtree for $1,000. A young man contacted me, telling me that [...]

The uprising of the woke generation. We are in a bitter culture war. Young people are graduating our education system not with freedom and diversity of thought, but with a new framework for understanding life -- a new worldview -- which is somewhat angry, anti-authority [...]

(This is an edited version of the first part of a talk I gave to Christian school principals at the recent Christian Schools Australia National Policy Forum in Canberra.) On September 23rd 2019, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg addressed the UN’s Climate Action Summit. She began: [...]

Part 3 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we saw in Part 2, Jesus was fully convinced that He was God, and He wanted people to see Him as part of a [...]

Our Working Lives From sun-up to sun-down, 81-year old Queensland wheat farmer John Larsen works and takes care of his 240 hectares of land. He and his wife Audrey have lived there since they were married in 1962. There they raised four children. He ploughs [...]

In traditional Aboriginal culture, there are laws about all of life and how to care for the land. In the Kimberley we have 8 male and 8 female skin names: Mother/Wife – Father/Husband Nambiyin – Jangari Nagada – Jawilyi Nyajadi – Jagada Nangari – Jambiyin [...]

In what has to be one of the most gracious media releases ever, the Atheists in Kenya Society recently announced on Twitter that their Secretary, Mr. Seth Mahiga, has resigned because “he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in [...]

Since I came to Australia a couple of years ago, there is one word, associated with an Australian actor, which has been shouted at me more than any other. Mel Gibson’s portrayal of the Scottish hero, William Wallace, is summed up by his crying in [...]

Since the 1960s, Hinduism has profoundly shaped the West. But it goes beyond vegan food, henna and hippy culture. We’re all one with God; there’s a divine spark within each of us; I’ll find my own path -- all of these Hindu ideas have gone [...]

Thursday the 28th of May marks the start of National Reconciliation Week. However, it’s difficult to see how true reconciliation can occur when falsehoods continue to be perpetrated. Just note the following example from Reconciliation Australia, which ironically comes under the sub-heading Beyond the Myths: [...]

Seen as a Living Death Dementia is a progressive terminal illness which affects thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform everyday tasks. It is caused by a wide range of physical diseases of the brain including Alzheimer’s. Most people with dementia are older, but dementia [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about honour lately, or perhaps the lack of it in today’s culture, particularly manly honour. What is it exactly and why has it lost its value in our culture. According to Collins Dictionary: Honour means doing what you believe to [...]