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Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To focus our attention on the One in whom we have unity. Editor’s Note: The writer of this devotion is an Indigenous Christian leader who has deep concerns about the Voice. We thought it wise [...]

The compulsory acquisition is because Calvary Hospital and the ACT government had a fundamental disagreement over the definition of healthcare. For the government, the provision of abortion is non-negotiable. Calvary Hospital relies on institutional conscientious objection to refrain from participating in abortion.

Starbucks coffee chain spreads the transgendered gospel. As if to prove that they have learned absolutely nothing from the Bud Light fiasco, Starbucks has decided to make their coffee the brew of choice for the gender confused. It’s like they saw what trans influencer Dylan [...]

Did mass coercion make informed consent to the Covid jabs impossible? ‘I had my shots but I’m not having any more’ is a phrase I’ve heard more than once. A little over a year ago – I know, it feels longer – thousands marched the [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To grow in prayer as the foundation for sharing Jesus. Scripture “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And [...]

Let’s pray she finds an oasis in the desert. On Friday 12 May, the Victorian Liberal Party voted 19 to 11 to expel Moira Deeming from its party room. But according to Sky News reporter Peta Credlin, Moira Deeming “is just the sort of person [...]

You are the carbon they want to reduce. A Canadian military veteran has been offered euthanasia instead of a wheelchair ramp at her home. A rare mistake? Canadian academics reckon homeless people should be given access to euthanasia. And one in four Canadians agree. Heartbreaking. [...]

The pandemic has been an extended three-year “teachable moment” for many of us who previously had been content to go along with the public health messages from our nearly universally trusted medical experts, drug regulators and public health institutions. Safety Signals In a peer-reviewed recent [...]

So very often our politicians let us down. It has been known for millennia that two of the most corrupting, debilitating and destructive forces on earth are wealth addictions and power addictions. And often they go together. It is especially in the political arena that we find this deadly duo [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To encourage us to be aligned with God’s heart in prayer. Scripture “He presented another parable to them: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. [...]

Christian conservatives are NOT welcome in the Liberal Party. If you know your Star Wars films, there is a scene in the 1977 movie where Luke Skywalker enters the Cantina with R2-D2 and C-3PO, only to be met by an angry bartender. This dialogue follows: “Hey! We don’t serve their kind here.” “What?” [...]

Over the years I’ve been involved in thousands of online conversations with atheists, many of whom identify with the label “rational sceptic”. But when you examine their position, in most cases reason is the last quality to be found in their ideas. And this is [...]

Where are the limits to self-definition? Seven years ago, a short video went viral that has stood the test of time like few others. It featured Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington interviewing students at the University of Washington about gender bathroom [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To understand the incredible gospel Jesus commanded us to proclaim! Scripture “Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you… For what I received I passed on to you as of first [...]

A Covid vaccine booster trial continues to recruit adolescents despite Australia’s vaccine advisory body, ATAGI, acknowledging the comparatively high risks associated with boosters compared to comparatively low risks associated with Covid infection for healthy young people. The PICOBOO study was launched at the Telethon Kids Institute last [...]

Queensland’s Minister for Women has no idea what a woman is. Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman is the “world’s most inept women’s minister” following her comments on gender identity, says Sky News host James Macpherson. “Just because you preface your stupidity with ‘let’s be inclusive', doesn’t [...]

One can never get enough of Leonard Ravenhill. There is always so much we can glean from the words of Ravenhill – though he is dead, yet he still speaks. He has brought a very strong and anointed word for the Body of Christ today. Sure, many [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To ready ourselves to use prayer to push through the spiritual darkness to spiritual breakthrough. Scripture “And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying, ‘The Lord is longsuffering [...]

It’s no mistake that the modern celebration of Mothers’ Day occurs in May – the month of Mary. She is a model of motherhood from whom all – men and women alike – take inspiration. We’ve often joked that it takes mere seconds to conceive [...]

Today, Sunday 14 May, is Mother’s Day but this coming, Tuesday 16 May, is International Boys' Day. What do these two days have in common? #1. Without mothers, we would not have any boys to celebrate. #2. The greatest defenders and promoters of boys are [...]