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"The Blind" (2023) is a blunt account of Phil Robertson’s past, and future redemption. From substance abuse to domestic violence, the film paints the scene of the sinner, sinking further into the consequences of his sin.

My heart was filled with hate for the perpetrators of my concentration camp experiences as a child of seven years. One day, when I was 70 years old, I was suddenly overcome with the unbearable weight of the hatred I carried all these years.

The very idea that Payman sought wisdom from Allah before voting on policy issues has surprised many Australians who rarely give a second thought to religion. The fact is that no one arrives at any issue values-free. We all have a religion – whether we believe in God or not.

Since God is God, how can He in any way become better or better off or enriched? How can He increase in any way as a result of us blessing Him?

We live in times of great shaking and tremendous uncertainty, times in which it is not hard to wonder, “What is coming next?” In times like this, it is all the more important to put all our trust – not some, but all – in Jesus Christ. He alone is our Rock, our Refuge, our Helper, our Redeemer.

Our hope is not in the person in the White House or the Lodge, but in the King of Kings. This hope allows us to live non-anxiously with the messiness and brokenness of this world and its politics, knowing that our home and our security are not in a temporal country.

I remember my parents visiting Israel from our home in England in 1960, and I went on my own, as a 19-year-old non-Christian, in 1971 to volunteer on a kibbutz. I am sure this background planted seeds of my love for Israel.

For the past ten years, the Australian Prayer Network (APN) has been holding Watchmen Schools of Intercession all over the nation, with over 16,000 people having attended the Foundation Level course.

A major issue Paul had to deal with was the “super-apostles”. These were leaders and teachers (often false teachers) who tended to put their personalities, their prestige, and their power forward as their credentials. Today, things are no different, with celebrity preachers.

Because repentance (Hebrew "teshuvah") is a great theme of the Old Testament, it is also a great theme of Judaism. It is a theme found throughout the New Testament as well. In fact, it has been said that “‘repent’ is the first word of the Gospel.”

Most people know the story of the ‘birds and the bees’, but very few know that the story of ‘the flowers and the bees’ is a far more fascinating story with a hidden secret.

Jews are turning to the hope of Israel, Jesus Christ. One ministry has received 1,230 Israeli orders for New Testaments in Hebrew since the October 7 attack.

You might remember Jack Phillips, the man sued in 2012 for refusing to decorate a cake celebrating homosexuality. His persecutors are at it again.

The Victorian Parliament will debate whether or not to continue opening proceedings with the Lord’s Prayer. The debate has been forced by the Catholic Church after the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan proposed ditching the prayer because, well, “diversity”.

The NSW Greens hit peak levels of hypocrisy and humour this week as they made a last-ditch effort to stop a resolution of the cemeteries matter that has been dragging on for years.

Dr Jereth Kok has spent the last half-decade barred from practising family medicine while awaiting a verdict on whether his memes and internet opinions were permissible under Australia’s medical regime.

While I sympathise with Costello’s lament about the often-strong support many US Christians provide Trump, I am concerned by his argument. It’s one thing to say you disagree with Christians supporting Trump. It’s another to say Christians "condemn themselves" by supporting Trump.

We must be careful that we do not end up being an empire builder, a kingdom builder. We must be very careful, in other words, that in our effort to serve the Lord, we do not get proud, and do not think we are going to be the next best Christian thing since the apostle Paul.

We are living in times of great shaking, times of refining and purifying. How should we respond? In the words of the Gospel song, and in the spirit of Isaiah 6, we should say, “Take the coal, touch my lips, here I stand.” Let the cleansing begin with me. Judgment begins with God’s household.

Kingdom Thinkers Academy (KTA) has launched its online school portal. The portal offers quality options suitable for both the homeschooled and the tutored, and is another innovative move by the Australian start-up.