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Intention God calls us to birth the harvest with prayer. Scripture “Then He said to them, ‘The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.’” — Luke 10:2 Reflection Have [...]

The past five years has demonstrated a paradigm shift as to how people in the West view the world. Dr. Voddie T. Baucham argues in his book, Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe (Salem, 2021) that this will be the issue [...]

Memo to the Libs: We need actions to match the words: My title may baffle non-Australians, so let me explain: ScoMo is Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison. And he leads our Liberal Party, which is actually not politically liberal -- or is not supposed to [...]

For most of my life, I’ve been blessed with good physical and mental health. I’ve never struggled with depression. And I’ve never struggled with anxiety -- until a few years ago. To cut a long story short, I had a panic attack on a small [...]

Intention Sometimes God only reveals His will to us or answers our prayers when we first wrestle with Him in prayer. Scripture “That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of [...]

What happened during this great revival should stir us all: Any true Christian aches for heaven-sent revival to break up the hard, dry and parched ground that we find all around us. All Christians know that in Australia and the West, the church of Jesus [...]

The Australian environment was at first so hostile, so inhospitable, to Evangelical Europeans that they could not envisage how it could ever be the scene of revival. A missionary to the Aborigines, Lancelot Threlkeld, said in 1828: There is ‘no moving on the tops of [...]

We talk of the second coming -- half the world has never heard of the first. ~ Oswald J. Smith The whole world has now become mission territory, but the group that demands our attention today are those who do not associate themselves with any [...]

Intention Stand up for Christ in a sinful world and deliver the only news that saves! Scripture “Jesus called out to them, ‘Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!’ And they left their nets at once and followed him.” [...]

I first gave my life to Jesus at a Billy Graham crusade in Melbourne in 1959. I really had no idea what I was doing at the time, or what it meant. But God did. Fast-forward to the early 1990s, and I was working at [...]

Not a Blob With each new discovery, modern science continues to astound us with the sublime complexity and beauty of human life. And so the modern-day claim that a newly-conceived unborn baby is merely a ‘ball of cells’ or a ‘patch of foetal tissue’ or [...]

We have a particular grass that isn’t native to Australia, but flourishes at the expense of the native and improved pastures that are needed to help our stock to grow and thrive. Even if you cut it down and leave it lying on the ground, [...]

Intention Activate your faith and share it with others. Scripture “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out [...]

3 I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it. 4 The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil. [...]

What follows is a sermon by Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain house church movement in China. Before Pastor Yi was recently arrested and imprisoned, he gave the following sermon based on Ephesians 5:15. I would highly recommend you taking the time to watch [...]

Living in the days of the ‘unexpected’. As I sit at my computer today, preparing this article, rockets are being fired into Israel from Gaza. This past week has been exceedingly difficult for Israel. The other day the Lord said to me “expect the unexpected”. [...]

Perennial provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has recently doubled down on his decision to renounce his gay lifestyle by casting his $150,000 (!) engagement ring -- which Milo labelled as his ‘sodomy stone’ -- into the ocean. The entire episode can be viewed below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ggFyrU6s Inspired by [...]

Let’s be honest, it’s the world’s most fashionable religion. Buddhism has an exciting mystique about it, especially for us spiritually starved Westerners. Mindfulness has gone mainstream, along with Zen gardens and the Dalai Lama. Buddhist themes light up our cinemas, from The Matrix to Kung [...]

In this series, we are considering the seven pillars of wisdom mentioned in Proverbs 9:1, which I contend are prudence, discernment, knowledge, discretion, judgment, understanding and counsel.

Intention To be aware of the Lord’s cleansing and calling in our lives. Scripture “Now, after John [the Baptist] was arrested and taken into custody, Jesus went to Galilee, preaching the good news of [the kingdom of] God, and saying, ‘The [appointed period of time] [...]