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Anna Crenshaw settles with Jason Mays but not the Hillsong Church

Posted on 06/07/2024 by John Sandeman
Mays and Crenshaw

Former Hillsong College student Anna Crenshaw (right) has settled her long-running court case against a Hillsong Admin worker, Jason Mays (left), but has continued her case against Hillsong Church and the college. It was March 2016 when 18-year-old Anna Crenshaw,… Continue Reading →

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Chalking for Jesus, and stealing from the poor

Posted on 05/07/2024 by John Sandeman

Chalking: Co-founder of Eternity newspaper, David Maegraith, thinks it’s time we saw Eternity chalked on our streets once more. But this time, the epicentre will be Adelaide. “It’s been decades since Arthur Stace chalked Eternity around Sydney, so I thought… Continue Reading →

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Good news from across the ditch

Posted on 04/07/2024 by John Sandeman
New Zealanders at Gafcon 2024

Australian Christians are too often ignorant about their sisters and brothers across the Tasman. Bishop Jay Behan of the Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa New Zealand and a team of New Zealanders gave a sharp update to the Gafcon Australasia… Continue Reading →

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Defining what Christian ‘mission’ means

Posted on 03/07/2024 by John Sandeman
Mark Earngey at Gafcon 2024

It’s possible though to be a little bit confused sometimes by the Bible’s mandate for mission,” Mark Earngey told the Gafcon Australia Conference meeting in Brisbane this week. “On the one hand, sometimes the use of the word mission can… Continue Reading →

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Church plants and conversion stories: Aussie Anglicans (and others) meet at Gafcon

Posted on 02/07/2024 by John Sandeman

Sydney Archbishop Kanishka Raffel visits churches every week, and “virtually every week”, he hears stories of people coming to Christ. Raffel urged delegates not to be ashamed of the gospel speaking at the Gafcon (Global Anglican Future) Australasia Conference, currently… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Anglicans, Christian news
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What Australia’s church plants look like

Posted on 01/07/2024 by John Sandeman
Planting

A snapshot of 428 new churches started since 2011 reveals that Australian Christian Churches (ACC) had the greatest representation of new churches (26.6 per cent), followed by the Baptists (16.6 per cent), the International Network of Churches (9.3 per cent)… Continue Reading →

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Happy Afters: A special song that brings calm.

Posted on 30/06/2024 by John Sandeman

A mother writes about a blessing for her daughter. C has had chronic illness all her life. Starting life with ongoing kidney issues, she now lives every day with the symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chiari Malformation, Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome,… Continue Reading →

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An inconvenient truth, abortions increase as the pro-life movement is abandoned by Trump.

Posted on 29/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Abortion hurts Women

In the opening rounds of the presidential debates, pro-life campaigners found no champion in former President Trump. He would not ban abortion medications, which are responsible, the CNN moderators said, for two-thirds of abortions in the United States. And he… Continue Reading →

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A place of rest… and salvation on the Camino

Posted on 27/06/2024 by John Sandeman
On the Camino Olvidado

News from the European Christian Mission Six years ago, Karina and Mauricio Aldana and Carolynn and James Webb arrived in the Basque Country, Spain with the hope of planting a church, when the mayor made a quick remark about the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian Mission, Christian news, Pilgrmages
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Local Baptist churches have to say if they disagree that marriage is for men and women couples only

Posted on 27/06/2024 by John Sandeman
Baptist: a baptism at Baptism at Northolt Park Baptist Church, Northolt, UK

Baptists will be asked to disclose if a local church or pastor disagrees with a NSW/ACT Baptist Association “position statement” on marriage. At a recent Baptist Assembly (their convention or synod) meeting, the NSW/ACT Baptists established a mechanism requiring local… Continue Reading →

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