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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 [...]

Let’s be honest, it’s the world’s most fashionable religion. Buddhism has an exciting mystique about it, especially for us spiritually starved Westerners. Mindfulness has gone mainstream, along with Zen gardens and the Dalai Lama. Buddhist themes light up our cinemas, from The Matrix to Kung [...]

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.

Can Jesus save the West? That’s the question Australian author Kurt Mahlburg seeks to answer in his excellent new book, Cross and Culture: Can Jesus Save the West? Mahlburg is an author with the Christian organisation, The Canberra Declaration, for whom he researches and writes. [...]

With “Hellboy” tattooed on his chest, and anxiety written on his heart, a well-loved YouTuber and influencer “Ethan is Supreme” died tragically from a suspected drug overdose. He was 17 years old. His growing audience of over half a million Instagram followers signaled that Ethan [...]

I first became aware of Christopher Rufo last year as I followed the American debates surrounding Critical Race Theory (CRT). Rufo is making an enormously positive contribution in this area, investigating the creep of ‘wokeness’ in education, and taking the battle against CRT to the [...]

“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from Heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that [...]

Rapper and cultural icon Kanye West converted to Christianity at the end of 2019. [1] While it’s not unusual to see big-name celebrities announce a new spiritual journey, the mainstream media and entertainment industry didn’t quite know what to do with him. Not only was [...]

Editor's Note: GlobalPrayerforChina.org, the online voice responding to Cardinal Charles Bo’s request to come together internationally to pray for the Church and Peoples of China, describes the ongoing human rights violations by the government of China. Read the original article here. ___ Across the board, [...]