The continuing saga of how funding will go for faith schools in our country in light of the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedom. The biggest threat to faith school funding is not from without – what the government might do. The biggest threat to funding could well be from within – what schools are already […]
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Church Planting: An Overnight Ten Year Success Story.
We’re often told wryly that it takes ten years to become an overnight success. It’s the case with many suddenly popular bands, such as new Orleans Band, the Revivalists, who had a big hit in 2017 with Wish I Knew You, a mere ten years after launching themselves into the music scene. It was a […]
With Friends Like Amnesty…
The news that Amnesty International is pushing for the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedom to end all funding for faith based organisations that hold to traditional, religious sexual ethics in their employment requirements is sad, but not surprising. And it reveals, yet again, that groups such as Amnesty don’t get religion. Don’t get it at […]
Preacher: Are Your Sermons Bananas For Jesus?
Keith Green often said that a Christian is a person who is “bananas for Jesus”. So as someone who often feels more like a quince for Jesus, or at times is experienced by others as a “prickly pear” for Jesus, I enjoyed a recent article by Jared Wilson on The Gospel Coalition site about why […]
Why Is the Mainstream Media Ignoring The Slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians?
That’s the question I’ve been wondering the past few weeks, and I’ve seen many pictures on Christian websites – way too many – of rows of bodies waiting to be buried. And just today Sydney Anglican rector, and MSM go-to for all things evangelical, Michael Jensen, posed the same question on Facebook: We are told […]
Don’t Turn The Good News Into Good Therapy
Rejections of the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement these days by previously orthodox people come around as regularly as flu viruses in the winter. And they’re just as toxic and catching. Scott Higgins’ latest post is a case in point. You can read it here. It’s got a nice click-baity title in keeping with the […]
Christian Institutions: Build Your Boats For Foul Weather
The noise leaking today from the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedoms in Australia would indicate that Christian organisations that hold to an orthodox sexual ethic in theology and practice should be building their boats for foul weather ahead. That’s a general rule: always build a boat for foul weather. Hope for fair, but build for […]
Happy Tenth Facebook Anniversary Stephen
As a child I’d often wondered how God would collate everything we’ve ever done and present it to us in a neat package on the last day. And then Facebook came along. But seriously. I received the “balloony” thing today, accompanied by a photo of me, congratulating me on my ten well spent years idling […]
Pastors, Empower Your Congregation: #GarethSouthgateWould
England football manager Gareth Southgate is the flavour of the month across social media (flavour of the minute surely!). Lampooned at Euro 96 when his missed penalty saw England bow out against Germany in the semi-finals, he was lauded two nights ago when his new-look England team held their nerve, won a penalty shoot out […]
Assorted Pictures of Angels Rejoicing Today In Heaven as One Sinner Repents
And the point just before the repentance and then just after: