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Today in the USA the last full day of voting will take place in the 2024 Presidential election. With only two imperfect choices, is failing to vote on 'moral' or other grounds – and thereby failing to vote against the candidate who will do the most harm – an immoral act?

The Queensland election result continues what appears to be a growing momentum of voters moving away from Labor. It was a very poor result for Labor in Queensland, involving a 7.4 per cent swing to the LNP, and a bad omen for Anthony Albanese federally.

On October 31, exactly 107 years ago today in 1917, the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade made a miraculous charge across the open desert. They defied overwhelming odds and captured the wells at Beersheba.

We are the holy temple of God. It’s time for the Church to come back to holiness.

Rather than seeking satisfaction in created things, come to Jesus – the bread of life – today, knowing that He satisfies the hunger of all who come to Him in faith.

Let us draw near to the One who trained Himself to be godly. Let us partner with His training in this great journey of faith. He has begun our race. He will help us complete it.

The Lord Jesus Christ was a true servant leader. By following His example, we offer a witness to the world of the true nature of leadership.

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

As the US Presidential election draws nearer, two conflicting opinions are emerging for Christians wishing to vote in a principled manner. Both have their merits and both allow for a decision to be made in good conscience.

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.

We expect non-Christians and Christophobes to hate on Christianity. It happens all the time and is par for the course. But it is a bit more surprising when those who claim to be Christians do much the same thing.

It would be a mistake to read too much into Harris’s words, but by exalting abortion as a manifestation of freedom, isn’t she close to endorsing Sartre’s bleakness and despair? A distinctive moral feature of abortion is being alone – radical alienation from both the child and her partner.

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.

Appalled by Smith-Connor’s legal defeat, the UK branch of Alliance Defending Freedom exclaimed, “This is the first known conviction of a 'thoughtcrime' in modern British history. We’re examining the possibility of appeal.”

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.

“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.