As kids growing up, one of the games we used to play was blowing Dandelion seeds from the Dandelion stalk and seeing how the wind took them. Great fun we thought but not Dad who had just dug half a dozen Dandelion weed plants out of his treasured lawn. However, that blowing in the wind game, where we do not know where the wind will take the seed or which will take root and grow, can I think act as a metaphor for how God transmits the gospel.
Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus the question ‘What is Truth?’, a question particularly relevant in these times when it is frequently said that we live in a ‘post-Truth’ age. A major characteristic of the socio-spiritual cultural Vacuum that has formed since the loss of the Judeo-Christian ‘Built-in-operating-system’, and its moral guidelines for western society, is … Continue reading In a Post-Truth World Justice Dies – Complete Version
Recently a comment was made on an article I had posted which I couldn't remember so I decided to look it up. On doing so I saw that I had written it in 2014, a long eleven years ago! On re- reading it I realized that not much had changed in those eleven years (not … Continue reading Bible People with Anorexia
There seems to be a general ignorance of, or a deliberate unwillingness to accept, that the lamented loss of ‘Western values’ is the result of the decline of Christianity and the corresponding loss of the biblical moral operating system essential to the control of western democracy. Thus, and here is the key issue, the restoration of a biblically controlled democracy and the values flowing from it, requires the re-evangelization of Australia.
"C.T.'s life stands as some rugged Gibraltar — a sign to all succeeding generations that it is worthwhile to lose all this world can offer and stake everything on the world to come. (C.T.’s) life will be an eternal rebuke to easygoing Christianity. He has demonstrated what it means to follow Christ without counting the cost and without looking back.”
The cultural principle needed for our 21st century mission to local communities can be summed up with this slogan – ‘Their place, Their style, Their language, Their time’
Essential to the nature of God is that He is Truth, that is a singular noun, not Truths. However, to use the words of Daniel, in our society ‘Truth has been cast down’ (Daniel 8:12). Indeed, the West is now largely a people ‘who suppress the truth by their wickedness’, and being that God is Truth, the retreat from one singular Truth, is a retreat from God himself.
As we celebrate receiving the benefits of the exquisite love-borne agony of the Cross, we should remember that the reception of that gift requires signing up as a ‘Soldier of Christ’, and soldiers must fight!
Easter is a certainly is a time to laugh and dance with joy in what Jesus did for us, but it is also a time to weep Jesus’ tears for people like Jack, our family, friends, colleagues who have rejected Him.
The Hot Cross Bun is so common all year round nowadays that for most in the West it has largely lost its meaning. So here is a Flyer that (together with a Bun!) can draw people back to the real meaning of Easter. *** In the first centuries A.D, society was hostile to Christians, so … Continue reading It’s Time to give ‘Hot Fish Buns’ a Run Again
