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Karl Faase encounters with those who encounter Jesus

Posted on 21/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Karl Faase interviews Ken and Wachuka Kaman

A new 10-part video series from Olive Tree Media captures life-changing stories about encounters with Jesus, and features Australian Karl Faase exploring a growing openness of people to rethink the Christian faith as they encounter Jesus. Faase explores both biblical… Continue Reading →

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Strong, wise words for Aboriginal Sunday: Aboriginal Churches need buildings, and Universities should return Indigenous bodies.

Posted on 19/01/2025 by John Sandeman
Aboriginal Flag

Some churches made Aboriginal Sunday the focus of their services today. Here are excerpts from sermons at two of them. Please feel free to send in other links. Ray Minniecon at St John’s Glebe talked about the Aboriginal church. :Some… Continue Reading →

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My Goodness. God’s Unreliability.

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Charles Brammall
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Charles Brammall on his own faith and a little book I have been a believer now for almost 58 years (see my coming book, “Godliness- A Lifetime of Lessons Learnt From Making Every Mistake in The Book”). I surrendered to… Continue Reading →

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A cautious conservative response to ‘The Australian Creed for Sexual Integrity’

Posted on 18/01/2025 by John Sandeman

It might be expected that all reformed evangelicals would give three cheers for The Australian Creed for Sexual Integrity, (ACSI) produced late last year with a growing number of signatories. The ACSI outlines an evangelical or conservative take on sexual… Continue Reading →

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Senators behaving badly, and a letter expressing hope in the English churches

Posted on 16/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Is this the best they can do: Responding to questions from Virginia Senator Tim Kaine about Peter Hegseth, the nominee for Secretary of Defence, about having fathered a child by the Fox News presenter who became his third wife while… Continue Reading →

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4,476 Christians killed for their faith in 2024

Posted on 16/01/2025 by John Sandeman
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4,476 Christians were killed, and 4,744 Christians were detained or imprisoned in 2025, according to the World Watch list compiled by Open Doors. “Though fewer Christians were killed for their faith in Nigeria compared to last year, it remains disproportionately deadly for… Continue Reading →

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There’s No Proof for God

Posted on 15/01/2025 by Charles Brammall
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In a splendid Bible passage that the LORD continues to use mightily for me to surrender to Him, Paul the apostle says in Romans chapter 5:6-10: “For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the… Continue Reading →

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Giving thanks to God and committing to reconciliation

Posted on 15/01/2025 by Neville Naden
Neville Naden

A message from Neville Naden, Indigenous Ministry Officer, The Bush Church Aid Society of Australia. As we approach another Australia Day, I pause to reflect on the blessings we enjoy as Australians, the challenges of our shared history, and the… Continue Reading →

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A final blessing for Arthur Blessitt who carried a cross around the world

Posted on 15/01/2025 by John Sandeman

Arthur Owen Blessitt (1940–2025) Arthur Blessitt, who started carrying his (literal) cross around the world in 1968, has come to the end of his life’s journey. His cross was 3.6 metres of 100m square timber – with a wheel at… Continue Reading →

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Best of the Cheeks: What Aussie Christians should learn from majority world sisters and brothers

Posted on 14/01/2025 by John Sandeman
State of the Great commission report pages

The stand-out fact from The State of the Great Commission report from the evangelical Lausanne Movement is the exponential growth of Christianity in the two-thirds world. It rivals the stories of the early church: “Christian communities that had been planted in Asia, Africa,… Continue Reading →

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