I REMEMBER … When I Was Seven … and in Sunday School we used to sing ‘Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, to shine for Him each day, in every […]

Social Media and Spiritual Warfare (Part II) Social media as a whole is a powerful weapon. Like all weapons, it can be used for profound good or tremendous evil, depending […]

Sydney Anglicanism has been, and continues to be, a great blessing for the Church in Australia. Its commitment to biblical truth and to mission is well known. But for how […]

Hello Darkness Crouched alone on the floor of the dim bathroom in his noisy college dorm, Paul Simon sought the solace of this only refuge available to him. And it […]

Tom Blunden, our history teacher at Newcastle Boys’ High School used to decry the fact that the school’s curriculum was structured in such a way that we could take either […]

Christians live between life here on earth and the life to come. Sometimes life here seems rather mundane – we are washing dishes, picking up the washing, taking out the […]

(I have changed names and details to protect identity) Zahrah knew she would soon be dead if she didn’t leave. She pressed her one-year-old son to her breast, while the […]

At Thessalonica, Paul and the early Christian evangelists were accused of being men who had ‘turned the world upside down’ (Acts 17:6). Actually, they were trying to turn it right-side […]

God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. ““I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and […]

For quite some time, there’s a popular notion going around in Christian circles that it’s not only OK to give full-vent of one’s anger towards God, but that it’s also […]

Attending Bible College in the 1960s involved a two-year course, each year having three terms. This meant that six areas of Systematic Theology were covered, the first being the foundational […]

At first glance, resurrection and persecution may not seem to be related, unless linked by martyrdom. After all, Richard Dawkins has claimed that religion was invented as a ‘comfort-blanket’ to […]

There was a time when those on the left knew that apartheid was wrong.  The South African system of ‘separate cultural development’ was rightly considered to be segregationist, racist and evil.   But […]

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to […]

I thought I heard his footsteps faintly like a cool wind rustling through my mind when as a young boy. Jesus called me by my name; I heard him whisper […]