For those of you who are engaged in church or parachurch ministry, here's an important excerpt from the October 2011 issue of the "Pastors E-newsletter" published by Ken Clendinning, director of Ministry Support and Development for the Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT: How do you understand God’s call in your life to ministry? For many of us responding …
Sermon: What Jesus would say about immigration
Sermon by Rod Benson Sunday 9 October 2011 Scripture reading: Hebrews 13:1-3 Australia is a nation of immigrants with links to almost every other country and culture. Even the first Australians, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, came to this land from somewhere else. All of us here today are immigrants or the descendants …
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N.T. Wright on the death penalty
Here's what British bishop and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright wrote in a recent piece for The Washington Post: You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. … Mind you, there is in my view just as illogical a position on the part of those who solidly oppose the death …
J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
"My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inaminate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights …
John Stott’s profound legacy
In the early hours of Thursday morning, Sydney time, one of the twentieth century’s greatest Christian leaders passed away. Time Magazine named him, along with Nelson Mandela and Bill Gates, in its “most influential people” list in 2005. Billy Graham described him as “the most respected clergyman in the world today.” His name was John …
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