Eventually, she does comes forward in fear and trembling - in front of everybody. They could all now see her. They all knew that she was the…

When it comes to Christians and the issue of sin, I began to see scope creep as a much bigger issue than the overreach of the use of facial recognition technologies. On our personal “scope” for what is acceptable behaviour - what is sin, and what is not - is scope creep a thing?

Many people profess themselves to be Christians – this is their self-declaration to the world. This is what they want to be – nothing wrong with that of course. But for that to be true and valid it must be based on something substantial, some irrefutable truth, not some whimsical idea about religion, or God.

If ever the Church needs to be majoring in the ministry of intercession, it is now, for such a time as this. To intercede into the spiritual realm to blunt and block the flood of demonic influence.

Isn’t Jesus entitled to this kind of love?

These days pretty much everyone has heard the term. Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse and psychological manipulation where someone intentionally makes you doubt your own memory, perception, or even your sanity. It happens over time and makes you rely…

The gap between those two places in our journey can seem very big, perhaps even illogical – even dangerous – to us. The gap is just so … big.

Elijah collapses beneath the broom tree, spent. “I cannot do this anymore, I just can’t”; and falls asleep. What does God do here? Surely He loves His faithful servant? The next piece in the narrative is very insightful for any follower and learner of Jesus. See if you can see the truth-principle in the narrative…

If a child is to do well, it must toe the curriculum line. One leading psychologist said recently, “… alarmingly, when they (the children) are distressed (about what they are being taught), that distress is now often treated as evidence of ‘awareness’, as evidence that they care, that they're engaged. It's a moral virtue.” It isn’t. It’s child abuse. She went on to say…

This week one of the elders had a brief vision of a bright red buoy bobbing on the surface of the sea. There are many types of buoys on our marine waterways that alert shipping with all kinds of warnings and instructions. But what was seen was…

This is ideology disguising contempt for parenthood – and it is directed and orchestrated by the Education Department, not the government.

This is not isolated contempt, either. Young teenage…

No, I am not writing about a new style of pizza I have discovered this week, or a new offering on the menu at the local Greek restaurant. sóphronizó (σωφρονίζω) is an ancient New Testament Greek word that is notoriously difficult to translate into English with just one word – and that’s nothing new, of course. sóphronizó appears only once in the entire New Testament, in 2 Timothy 1:7 …

There was nothing random about it. Science cannot think in such terms, and because it cannot do so it demands proof whereas the ancient scriptures simply…

I’m sure that you, like me, have realised that it is relatively easy to offend people these days. It doesn’t take much. You don’t even have to try. From the greasy glare of someone who is convinced that you were attempting to run them off the road on the way to work, to the nasty abuse and cursing to which a young mother was subjected at a local bank branch I was visiting this week – because one of her kids was…

When people say, “You don’t have to attend church to be a Christian” we now know, because of the word אוֹת that is a load of nonsense. The Lord’s day is a sign and pledge God has established between Him and His people, and it should not be trashed, or disregarded as inconvenient in our schedules.

Dr Cody stunned the panel with her unblinking insistence. The great irony in all of this from Ms Gillard to Dr Cody is that it is women at the highest levels of national administration who are creating the worst of misogynistic outcomes in law – and everyday women and girls are losing rights whilst biological men who want to identify as women are benefiting.

Many Christians today live quite compartmentalised lives and their discipleship – which the Bible teaches is a holy, spiritual way of living that glorifies God – is one of the smaller compartments.

The, often hidden, restoration work that God is doing in us as we persevere in faith trusting His process, has two incredible outcomes…

We CANNOT sit around and lament the rise of evil in our society as we are seeing, especially when we are partly to blame. We’ve almost lost our saltiness … As I have said many times before in these pages, the people of God need to mobilise and intercede like never before. The only difference is that now it is more urgent than ever before.

…if all that was still sinful in me was surgically removed in one fell swoop – if that were possible - there wouldn’t be much of me left. Too much of my soul and flesh would be gone for me to survive the experience of such huge immediate change. And this is why…