In Times Like This – A Song for the Black Times

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In times of trouble, whether relational, financial, serious, even terminal, illness, when it may appear that all the foundations and structures of life, all the things upon which they have relied, all hopes for the future, seem to be in danger of being washed away, people often turn to the Old Testament book of Psalms. The main reason for this is that the Psalms are songs that cry out of the depths of the human heart. cries that express the full range of human emotions from shouts of joy and praise to anguished cries of despair.

Into the Cesspit of Spiritual and Moral Bankruptcy

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‘to rebuild western civilization, we need to go back to what made western civilization such a powerful force for good and prosperity and that is the Judeo-Christian world view.' Karl Faase

An Unbounded Church Thinking Point

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'If your God is the all-powerful, all-loving being you claim him to be, why didn’t he intervene to stop this happening? The fact that he didn't means that he is either not all-powerful or all-loving'.

DiscipleMakers – Opening Doorways into the Gospel

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This booklet, seeks to provide some conversation starters that we might be able to use in informal situations with individuals or groups. All the examples included have been and are being used by DiscipleMakers in such informal situations.

Christmas is Stolen and It is Not Harmless – Worth a Retelling

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Standing in the shopping mall, those tomb-side words on that chill first Easter morning came to me, “They have stolen Him away and we don’t know where they have put Him”, words true for most contemporary Australians. But worse, society’s degraded state of spiritual desiccation is now so far advanced that most don’t even know there has been a theft!

How the West Was Shaped – The Bible-

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Today there is a widespread embarrassment about confronting the role of the Christian church in the formation of the Western world… Yet there is a strong case to be made that our conception of society and of a just legal system cannot be fully understood apart from that debt. When we ignore it, we fail to understand ourselves’

When It Comes to Eternity Theology Matters

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‘‘Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England as shall never be put out’

Vacuum 1 – The Degradation

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‘The West cannot survive without a re-energized belief in Christianity’.

The Scissored Bible Version (SBV) and the Mission Mandate

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Our, now decades long, failure in meeting Jesus’ mandate to ‘make disciples’, will not be reversed until Christians and churches don’t just claim to be ‘bible believing’ but cease their use of the SBV, re-insert the word ALL into the Missionary Verse, and act on it.

Descent into Dystopia -Reposted

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          “The United states, and the West, are caught in the slowly asphyxiating Grip of a decadence they do not understand, and have been there for fifty years . . . We are not standing on the cusp of decadence. The US, and Australia, have been decadent for half a century or more. The culture … Continue reading Descent into Dystopia -Reposted