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Tithing now a crime in China Chinese police handed Elder Zhang Chunlei’s wife a formal notice in early May. As Yang Aiqing read the document, she noticed authorities arrested Elder […]
God As God: Justice And Mercy
In explaining the cross, the apostle Paul demonstrates that it reveals both God’s righteousness and His mercy, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has […]
The Unstoppable Gospel
The book of Acts is well suited to be studied in a year of what we hope will be recovery like 2021. The affect of Acts is to bring about […]
Thomas Clarkson: A Man Willing to Change
Moving a dinner plan forward, changing your coffee order, swapping shirts just before you rush out the door – we change our minds all the time. But what drives us […]
Review of David Powlison, The Pastor as Counselor (Crossway, 2021)
Review of David Powlison, The Pastor as Counselor (Crossway, 2021) As professional counsellors and psychotherapists become a normal part of society, it can be easy for pastors to think themselves […]
Today’s Quick Word: 25 June 2021
My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word. My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, “When will you comfort […]
Today’s Quick Word: 24 June 2021
Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land. […]
Review: Free to Change: Survey of 78 Ex-LGBT People
Cause, Free to Change: Survey of 78 Ex-LGBT People, available through cause.victoria@gmail.com Before the Victorian government passed its oppressive laws banning ‘conversion therapy’ in February 2021, it drew on a […]
Today’s Quick Word: 22 June 2021
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong […]
Today’s Quick Word: 21 June 2021
The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The LORD’s right hand has done […]
Today’s Quick Word: 18 June 2021
Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth. Deuteronomy 23:23 This chapter in Deuteronomy, […]
Are you more Likely to be Abused as an Anglican?
It is an interview I will never forget. In my mid 20’s I was just a couple of years into my ministry in the Scottish Highlands when a young woman […]
Today’s Quick Word: 17 June 2021
I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. … … My own hand […]
Today’s Quick Word: 15 June 2021
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures for ever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say this – those he redeemed from the hand of the […]
Re-thinking ordination
Back in the 1970s many of us learned to be suspicious of ordination and all that went with it. The spectacle of some leaders being given special status among the […]
Welcome to the Sexual Counter Reformation
One of the traps we fall into as Christians responding to the chaos in today’s culture is that sometimes we do not see the wood for the trees. So we […]
