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Channukah is a Jewish festival that Jesus himself celebrated. Just as the Jews rededicated the Temple after its desecration, so we are invited to rededicate ourselves to Yeshua this Channukah. As I was preparing for our Celebrate Israel November meetings, I asked the Lord for [...]

Psalm 117 Please read the whole Psalm: “Praise the LORD,all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. 2 For great is his lovetoward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.” This psalm is quoted in Romans 15 by Paul, to [...]

Pluralism asserts that all religions are equal paths to God. But that view misunderstands — and even dishonours — what each faith really teaches.

Israel. It’s bizarre that such a tiny nation somehow makes news headlines every week. I guess when you occupy the hottest piece of real estate on the planet, the whole world is going to have an opinion. Today the media buzz is mostly about Israel’s [...]

There is a popular image of heaven as a place of celestial bliss -- with clouds, angels, harps and chubby babies. But that’s not how the Bible depicts heaven at all. In Scripture, heaven is actually described as a new earth. Revelation in particular paints [...]

Christians believe that Jesus is the Christ or Messiah -- the ‘Anointed One’ who was promised long ago in the prophecies of the Old Testament. This may be an idea you are familiar with. Perhaps you can even name some of those prophecies, like the [...]

Many today assume that believing the Bible involves blind faith. But what if there was a way to prove that the Bible isn’t just a bunch of fairy tales, but the words of the living God? There is. Bible prophecy provides powerful evidence that there [...]

The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.’ ~ Psalm 110 This is an extraordinary psalm. At first it seems somewhat mysterious and irrelevant to our lives, and yet that cannot be. It [...]

Part 5 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. So far in this series, we have examined several lines of evidence of Jesus’ divinity -- including his own testimony about himself; what the apostles [...]

Part 4 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we have previously covered, both Jesus himself and his apostles were fully convinced of Jesus’ divinity. In Part 4 of this series on Jesus [...]

Part 2 of a series on the identity of Jesus of Nazareth Jesus is God: fully human, and fully divine. As we saw in Part 1, knowing and believing Jesus’ true identity is essential for saving faith -- it is a matter of eternal life [...]

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 [...]

I love Christmas carols. They are the soundtrack of the season. As great as carols are, it’s possible to make it through the whole month of December, hear these tunes, and yet not tune in to what the carols are really saying. On closer inspection, [...]

by Rev Harry Goodhew AO, former Anglican Archbishop of Sydney. Intention Jesus is Lord, even in the middle of drought. Scripture I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another, or My praise to idols. ~ Isaiah 42:8 [...]

by Archbishop Glenn Davies, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Intention Pray to God to have mercy on this nation. Scripture “I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the LORD [...]