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Rock stars, just like everyone else, have to deal with rejection, pain and suffering, and they need the one true answer to these problems. The overwhelming acceptance we have in Christ is something that compensates for all such rejection.

Even a man once described as “after God’s own heart” needed a renewed, clean heart. Only God can "create in me a clean heart", just as King David prayed in Psalm 51.

Melbourne’s annual March for the Babies will be held this Saturday, 12 October. But this year’s march comes after an incredible pro-life campaign during the NT election. The NT election results have much to teach and encourage Victorians.

The Word clearly tells us how to speak about leaders, and claiming that Jesus used insulting, coarse or even vulgar language when speaking about Herod is just an excuse for our own carnality. 

Take away the history of a people or a culture or a nation, and you effectively take away the people, the culture, and the nation. We are today what has gone before in our past. Being unmoored from our own past makes us quite vulnerable.

We must redouble our commitment to the family – especially fathers – as a lynchpin of Christian training. Children who lack a stable sense that theirs is a Christian household are most vulnerable to drifting away from the Church.

There is a lot to learn about the number 5 from a Jewish and Biblical perspective. In March 2025, we will step into 5950 according to the Essenes. This is a Jubilee year – a year of double 5, double grace, double breath of the spirit to behold, a time when slaves are ordained to be set free.

As disciples of Christ, we are called to partner with God’s best purposes for life. By fortifying our will with a powerful why, we set ourselves on a path towards victory.

The words that have been resounding in my spirit for months have been “sovereignly orchestrated” and “divine intervention”. Take courage. God can reach a dying individual and world.

Repentance is a gift! It sets us free from all sin by its ongoing transformational power.

To live a life of sexual integrity, we must train ourselves in two areas: our eyes and our mind.

When we live in child-like trust, His Spirit can release the fire of His presence, purity, passion and power to be transformed and be transformers with great authority to impact lives and nations.

These things should sadden us greatly, and they should send us straight to our knees, praying not just for the latest situation, but indeed, praying for ourselves. The month of October is devoted to the issue of sexual integrity.

The pressure to cave into the standards of the surrounding culture is always with us. But we must dare to be Daniels.

How does the Bible help Christians disagree well with each other and with non-Christians? There’s much that could be (and should be) said. But for the sake of brevity, here are 9 points that have helped me enormously.

Jordan Peterson kneeled with Russell Brand onstage, in an unscripted, two-minute public prayer over the weekend. He then joined Brand in reciting the Lord’s Prayer. Their impromptu talk was part of a Make America Great Again (MAGA), Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) rally.

The Christian Gospel covers all of life and is able to address all our needs, questions and concerns as human beings. It touches every aspect of life, and there is no part of this world which the Christian Gospel does not speak to.

Opposing the left’s assault on the culture may be viewed as a negative, but it is in defence of a deeper positive — protection for families, communities, human rights and faith in the face of political and cultural chaos.

There is so much in this parable for each of us. It instructs on how we can experience the Father’s prodigal love in our own lives. And the parable teaches us how to show mercy in our families and churches.

Christians can have just as much trouble as non-Christians in getting their priorities right. We tend to ignore what is most important for Christ and the Kingdom and instead concentrate on what is of importance for ourselves. But this never ends well.