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Part 2 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we saw in Part 1, knowing and believing Jesus’ true identity is essential for saving faith -- it is a matter of eternal life [...]

How should the Christian think about the issue of rebellion? One of the memes making the rounds on the social media is from the late US comedian and social activist George Carlin. It says this: “Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to [...]

The police took my grandmother away when my mum was about seven. Her story about the stolen generations haunted me for years, but she was a Christian and taught me to forgive and be set free.

A Study of Surviving Published Materials about Evangelical Revivals in Australia up to 1880. Dapto Revival 1838 The year 1838 saw the arrival of a layman, John Vidler, in the Illawarra area, to work as a farm labourer. "He held his first service some time [...]

A woman by her very nature is maternal – for every woman, whether married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological, or spiritual mother — she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for [...]

In this series, we are considering the seven pillars of wisdom mentioned in Proverbs 9:1, which I contend are prudence, discernment, knowledge, discretion, judgment, understanding and counsel. Pillar Four: Discretion Psalm 112:5 tells us that a good man “will guide his affairs with discretion”. Proverbs [...]

I grew up on a farm in the Adelaide Hills, running through corn patches and building cubby houses with my sisters on the banks of our creek. I have great memories of my childhood. I was blessed to grow up in a Christian family, and [...]

We are excited as we receive reports telling a little of what God is doing around the nation this year. Historically, here have been many moves of God’s Holy Spirit in Australia. The 1979 firestorm in Arnhem Land spread to most of the nation as [...]

Part 1 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. From the early church on, Christians have believed that God is one, but that he is three persons: Father, Son and Spirit — also known [...]

i am a person, who is going through some hard times. my thoughts are beyond me. i just want to get noticed … Thus is one of the recent trending discussions on Reddit. I just want to get noticed. This is actually a need more [...]

For most of my life, I’ve been blessed with good physical and mental health. I’ve never struggled with depression. And I’ve never struggled with anxiety -- until a few years ago. To cut a long story short, I had a panic attack on a small [...]

What happened during this great revival should stir us all: Any true Christian aches for heaven-sent revival to break up the hard, dry and parched ground that we find all around us. All Christians know that in Australia and the West, the church of Jesus [...]

The Australian environment was at first so hostile, so inhospitable, to Evangelical Europeans that they could not envisage how it could ever be the scene of revival. A missionary to the Aborigines, Lancelot Threlkeld, said in 1828: There is ‘no moving on the tops of [...]

We talk of the second coming -- half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J. Smith The whole world has now become mission territory, but the group that demands our attention today are those who do not associate themselves with any [...]

I first gave my life to Jesus at a Billy Graham crusade in Melbourne in 1959. I really had no idea what I was doing at the time, or what it meant. But God did. Fast-forward to the early 1990s, and I was working at [...]

Not a Blob With each new discovery, modern science continues to astound us with the sublime complexity and beauty of human life. And so the modern-day claim that a newly-conceived unborn baby is merely a ‘ball of cells’ or a ‘patch of foetal tissue’ or [...]

We have a particular grass that isn’t native to Australia, but flourishes at the expense of the native and improved pastures that are needed to help our stock to grow and thrive. Even if you cut it down and leave it lying on the ground, [...]

What follows is a sermon by Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain house church movement in China. Before Pastor Yi was recently arrested and imprisoned, he gave the following sermon based on Ephesians 5:15. I would highly recommend you taking the time to watch [...]

Living in the days of the ‘unexpected’. As I sit at my computer today, preparing this article, rockets are being fired into Israel from Gaza. This past week has been exceedingly difficult for Israel. The other day the Lord said to me “expect the unexpected”. [...]

Perennial provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has recently doubled down on his decision to renounce his gay lifestyle by casting his $150,000 (!) engagement ring -- which Milo labelled as his ‘sodomy stone’ -- into the ocean. The entire episode can be viewed below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ggFyrU6s Inspired by [...]