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The world has become increasingly complicated and confused about sex. Through the Australian Sexual Integrity Creed, we can love people and love the truth.

God has given us guidelines to live a good, significant, and beautiful life. As an expression of the love between a husband and wife, sex is a gift from the Lord, a gift of beauty and grace.

Birth rates across the West are plummeting, and our economies will suffer untold carnage in the years ahead — all because we have failed to assign value to the unseen work, that most important job of child-rearing. Still, we have an opportunity to turn this mess around.

Let us turn our attention to the One who has all power and knows all things. Let’s trust Him for deliverance from the personal crises and trying circumstances we encounter – now and in the future.

There is nothing gentle about the ensnaring of the sins of the flesh. These sins enslave us “more thoroughly than the most active and tumultuous vices.”

I hope these six simple strategies give you some idea of how to engage young people in the pro-life conversation. Please continue to pray for our young people and our culture as a whole.

We cannot pretend marriage and family are always easy to live out. But God does not ask us to do it alone.

Children have become a commodity, and so have women and their wombs. Surrogacy is marketed as the fulfilment of a dream. But often, it ends up a terrible nightmare, especially considering the health risks to both the surrogate mother and the child.

From my own experience growing up in a fractured family, good relationships with both family and friends are critical for health, wellbeing and success.

“The Lord is at hand” means the Lord is nearby. He is always close to us – in times of trouble and peace.

The ‘fear of the Lord’ is the foundation of God’s command to be fruitful and multiply.

Finding the family of faith for prayer and keeping short accounts is the way to walk in a crooked and perverse generation. We can’t – but by grace, He enables us.

Following three hours of lively debate in South Australia’s Upper House, the Hon Ben Hood MLC’s Live Births Bill suffered the narrowest of defeats Wednesday evening, being voted down 10-9.

Jesus demonstrated the way of mercy with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. He desires that we show mercy to others in the same way.

ISA chief executive Graham Catt said his organisation was gearing up to take the fight to the Greens, with school leaders, teachers and parents making clear “they’ve had enough of the relentless and baseless vilification of families who simply want the best for their children”.

As we pray for revival and restoration of sexual integrity in our nation, may we see the release of love – as described in 1 Corinthians 13.

God is good and faithful to His promises. It is up to us to believe this truth and partner with Him to resist and overcome sexual temptation.

May eyes be opened to the unfulfilling nature of sex without commitment, and the beauty of God’s design for sexual intimacy between the husband and wife.

A Sukkah is a temporary dwelling similar to a gazebo, and Sukkot is the plural word. God came to dwell or “tabernacle” amongst us in Yeshua, and He will again “tabernacle” with us during His 1,000-year reign on Earth.

Turn the screens off and get outside with your kids! It could be as simple as kicking a ball in the backyard or a visit to your local park. Resist the temptation to make it elaborate or expensive – the simpler, the better!