World News
SUDAN – DISPLACED CHRISTIANS ARRESTED AMID ONGOING CONFLICTThe arrest of a group of 95 Christians in Sudan in the first week of October shows how precarious their situation is in […]
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Acts 12:4After arresting [Peter], [Herod] put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public […]
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Judges 7:2The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’” The […]
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Isaiah 46:3-4 Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you […]
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Mark 5:18-20As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your […]
Shadow Elders?
SHADOW ELDERS: A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT THE GAA REPORT GETS WRONG In 2023 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia accepted a Report, along with its attendant […]
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MIXED OUTCOMES FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT IN THE USA ELECTIONS The 2024 USA election brought mixed outcomes for the pro-life movement, as voters in multiple states approved pro-abortion ballot measures, […]
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Psalm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. Today, God’s Chosen People, his Church, are very much in the same situation as were his […]
The Cross –
A few years ago, somebody stole the cross that was perched high up on Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert. Veteran soldiers had placed it there to honour and remember […]
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Joshua 6:24-25 Then they burned the whole city [Jericho] and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of […]
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Matthew 13:54-57a Coming to his hometown, [Jesus] began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?” they asked. […]
Services, superheroes and heroes
On Services, superheroes and heroes (delivered on Speech Night for the Scotch College community, October 2024) I’m fully aware that exams occupy your minds right now: there’s study week, 2½ […]
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Isaiah 64:1-2 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come […]
Eternity: The Power of a Word
“Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds” (Ephesians 4:17). Arthur Malcolm Stace […]
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Psalm 119:75-76 I know, LORD, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your […]
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Deuteronomy 1:29-33 Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. The LORD your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he […]