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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. ~ Hebrews 12:11 The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across our world. It’s an uncertain time. And [...]

Prayers from Philippians 9 And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of [...]

In breaking news, Trump is halting America’s funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Daily Wire states that the U.S. President is reported as saying: Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to [...]

Sounding the alarm and asking questions during a time of crisis is crucial: Before proceeding, for the umpteenth time, let me share a few basic truths. Yes, the coronavirus is real and dangerous. But statist overreactions, overzealous policing, mass lockdowns and shutdowns, and the destruction [...]

Prayers from Philippians: “I thank my God every time I remember you.4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy 5 because of your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this, that [...]

Last week we heard from many of you about GO 2020 — a global initiative to mobilise 100 million Christians to reach 1 billion people for Christ in the month of May. We asked if the Canberra Declaration should sign on, and your answer was [...]

Do you like to taste-test your cooking before you have finished the whole thing? I admit to being guilty of this. Since social distancing has become law in this country, things haven’t changed very much for us. We are emerging slowly from the drought, where [...]

Imagine waking up on the first Easter Monday. Can there be any greater contrast than the despair of Holy Saturday and the joy of Easter Monday? Human circumstances and emotions change so quickly. Think of the despair of someone whose relative has just died, and [...]

Brought to you by the mass murderers who spawned the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square. Wuhan is nothing new for a regime that’s been sacrificing innocents to its demented ideology for over 70 years. Politically, nothing has changed since the People’s [...]

Easter changes everything – not least prayer. After Easter Sunday the disciples were able to pray to the Risen Lord. We do not pray to a dead idol… to a memory… our prayers are not just blessed thoughts. They are to the Risen Lord. And [...]

By Greg Sheridan, The Australian. Editor’s Note: Greg Sheridan contemplates the joy and hope that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ brings to us, even in the midst of the anxiety and upheaval wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, and the pain of lonely deaths in this [...]

Can you imagine being a disciple on the first Holy Saturday? You have given up everything to follow Christ – you have seen His miracles, heard His teaching and loved His love. He is the hope of Israel… indeed the hope of the world. And [...]

By Cardinal George Pell, AC. Editor’s Note: Cardinal Pell pens a moving reflection on his ordeal and how suffering can be redeemed through Jesus Christ, as exemplified by His sacrifice for us on the Cross. He includes musings on the coronavirus pandemic and the early [...]

Some time ago, a young father sent me this incredible story about David Campbell. David is the son of the iconic Aussie singer Jimmy Barnes. David Campbell happens to be a singer himself, and a co-host on the ‘Today Extra’ show on Channel Nine. Read [...]

Prayer: On this Good Friday we remember the death of Christ on the Cross. Psalm 22 provides an astonishing insight into how Jesus felt on that Cross. Dietrich Bonhoeffer describes the Psalms as the prayer book of Jesus. He quotes from Psalm 22 twice on [...]

This year began with one disaster after another, yet for me the COVID-19 tragedy stands out. It has brought something to my mind which I normally suppress – death. Every day, there are new updates which are hard to miss, and the number of deaths [...]

The recent High Court decision which unanimously (7-0) upheld the appeal of George Pell against the Victorian Court of Appeal’s decision proves—once-and-for-all-time—that the Catholic Cardinal is innocent. But that hasn’t stopped sections of the media from continuing to reaffirm Pell’s guilt. Without doubt, the most [...]

If you were to ask the majority of Millennials or Generation Z’s, what a rainbow stands for, they would say, “Diversity and the LGBTQI Movement.” Ask any 8 year old this week, and they will tell you it stands for HOPE. Despite the terrible tragedy [...]

This Easter is going to be different! We can’t go to church, we can’t gather with friends. But we can gather with family around a meal. Many love the tradition of going to church and coming home to a special Easter lunch. After a rousing [...]

Good Friday 10/4/2020 & Easter Sunday 12/4/2020 ANGLICAN CHURCH: 1. For weekly Sunday services at either St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney and other Anglican churches by suburb (Sydney & Wollongong) -- scroll down link to view churches by suburb name. 2. Channel 9 TV coverage of [...]