“Bear with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bones of peace: One Body and One Spirit.” ~ Ephesians 4 Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: ...read more
New Year’s Eve 2000 was celebrated on the Sydney Harbour Bridge by recognition of Arthur Stace’s Christian message, repeatedly chalked on Sydney streets over many years. My daughter asked: "Why that word -- 'Eternity'?" I typed up the history, as she wished to place it ...read more
You may have heard this argument before: how dare we speak of religious persecution in the West when the persecution of Christians in other nations is so horrific? I agree wholeheartedly that persecution in the non-Western world is a terrible injustice that we have an ...read more
As we come together to pray later this month at the National Solemn Assembly, I am not so much looking to place petitions before the Lord, but for the Holy Spirit to renew our minds, to guide our thinking for action in the current challenges. ...read more
“Love is a many-splendored thing” is the title of a popular song from the fifties. Many people would argue the sanity of that song and concur instead with Shakespeare who said, “Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage”! Nobody would disagree with you if ...read more
How much can a koala bear? Well, we’ll soon find out in New South Wales, as the Nationals are threatening to bring down the government over the issue of expanding koala habitats. Note, this the same party that threw their support — along with Gladys ...read more
The conversation between indigenous and non-indigenous Christians is underscored by appeals for reconciliation. But nobody is telling us what reconciliation looks likes -- what exactly everybody wants as an outcome. Maybe we should be reconciled with each other in God’s way and with God’s result. ...read more
Millions of Australian Dads will hear and see Dads4Kids' Best Daddy musical Community Service Advertisements over the next 12 months. They will be inspired to become who their children already think they are: ‘The Best Dad in the World’. Dads4Kids sees the whole year as ...read more
The Global Visitation About the middle of 1987, I was caught up in a supernatural dream. At the time, I was working in Sydney at Kellyville for a Christian family as a machine operator. I was living in the Blue Mountains at Blackheath, west of ...read more
by Jules Gomes. Editor's Note: This timely piece from Church Militant reports yet another case of "lawfare" being used to shut down freedom of speech on LGBT issues, this time targeting Lyle Shelton's blog post about Drag Queen Storytime in a Brisbane City Council library ...read more