“If anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ” (1 John 2:1) On July 27, 1996, Ivan Milat was finally convicted of seven ‘backpacker’ murders committed in the Belanglo State Forest South of Sydney in NSW, Australia. To this day, despite damning evidence, he says he is innocent. He’s been called Australia’s [...]
Psalm 91:15 “When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honour him” Can you feel the excitement? That one magnificent moment where the whole world is on the edge of its seat, bristling with nerves as a ball rockets between defenders towards [...]
Dear Friends, As we preach through the letter that James, the brother of Jesus, wrote in the middle of the first century AD, I want to focus on one aspect of life in the fledgling church. As we read elsewhere in the New Testament (especially the book of Acts and Paul’s letters) we get glimpses [...]
Engage is an annual kcc conference held in the Blue Mountains for young workers. engage was launched in 2007 in recognition of the need to create a space to encourage and teach Christians who’d made the jump from study and vocational training to the working life. We’ll be attending the weekend of 27-29 August. For [...]
Our second challenge provided by the Atheists is “Why are there so many starving children in the World?” Again, we will work through the main sections of the argument. If, on any Sunday morning in America, you were to visit a Sunday school class full of small children, there are two things that are nearly [...]
The video from David’s debate in Perth is now available! Enjoy! People should keep their religion to themselves from Paul Whitfield on Vimeo.
We turn now to the first of the ten questions that the atheists have posed us. “Why won’t God heal amputees?” The challenge is quite robust: According to the Standard Model of God: God is all-powerful. Therefore, God can do anything, and regenerating a leg is trivial. God is perfect, and he created the Bible, [...]
The Ethics in Schools controversy rumbles on. It’s easy for us to get apathetic about these issues and wonder whether it really is worth all the fuss. After all, what is really at stake? Two letters in Friday’s SMH are helpful. First, Martin Thomas in Cammeray writes, Let’s call the trial ethics course what it [...]
The Christian claim is that the first Easter morning saw a quite extraordinary event. Jesus of Nazareth, crucified on a Friday afternoon, rose from the dead on Sunday. The Resurrection was an entirely physical one. So, for example, the Anglican 39 Articles of Religion put it this way: Article IV Of the Resurrection of Christ [...]
Here in Australia, considerable attention was given to the recent Global Atheist Convention held in Melbourne. The event generated a lot of interest in the local media, particularly focusing not so much on the arguments made but on the (allegedly) unnecessary insults handed out by prominent platform speakers. One Australian, Christian senator was described by [...]
Great little video from DugDownDeep h/t: Aaron via the Clone
Dear Friends, I was watching TV this week and was both saddened and angered by 3 things. First, a news report of a one-year-old boy who, at 8 days-old, had his life support switched off by his parents as doctors told them he was as good as dead. He began to breathe on his own [...]
The poster board outside church has a confronting message this month, looking at the subject of pornography. We might feel awkward about it but pornography has a massive effect on large segments of our society – it’s time we got serious about how big a deal and how damaging it is. outreachMEDIA, who provide our [...]
Men and Machines is back! You spoke and we listened. This time Men and Machines is for the whole family. Men and Machines 2: Safe and Sound is going to be a great evening for everyone. We’ve got the guys who teach policemen how to drive fast and safely along to tell us about how [...]
Our dear friend and brother in Christ, Glenn Whitehead, succumbed to cancer at 11:30pm on Saturday night. While ever he had breath, Glenn was doing the work of an evangelist, telling all who would listen about the sure hope he had in Jesus. Whilst we know that he is now home safe in the arms [...]
Dear Friends, There’s just one more public holiday to go until the new year resumes the frenetic pace of the previous one. Traffic snarls will grow, humidity will rise and Christmas credit card debts will need to be paid off. Holidays are good. It is right to have a time of rest, for this is [...]
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Dear Friends, Last Sunday night was a great celebration for our church family as some very talented musicians and singers lifted our spirits and stirred our souls. Then we enjoyed the unseen labours of Bob & Robyn Bucknell’s Bible Study group who put the ‘dinner’ into Symphony Dinner. Thanks must go to all who coordinated [...]
The coming month has the potential to bring great change to our city. Whilst we are doing our bit at the suburban level to connect with our local community with a view to introducing people to Jesus, other things are happening at wider levels. I tell you about these so that you can seek God’s [...]
Dear Friends, As we preach through the book of Galatians, written around 49AD to Christians who were in danger of being lured into thinking that they could earn forgiveness, friendship and peace with God by their own works, we rightly focus on what Jesus has done for us. I’d hate you to get the impression [...]
Two events this week are seemingly unrelated; the disclosure under duress by a 14 year old girl on 2Day-FM radio station that she had been raped 2 years earlier, and Peter Costello writing an editorial piece in the Herald warning that proposed changes to the anti-discrimination laws will serve lawyers and hurt churches. They may [...]
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