Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Jan 2013. Happy New Year to all our listeners! On this first Sunday of 2013, here’s a prayer from one of the world’s great Christian leaders, the Reverend Billy Graham, published in The Saturday Evening Post: Our Father and our God, as we stand at the beginning of this new year …
Benefits of Bible reading
Christians have always known the benefits of reading and meditating on verses from the Bible. Now research conducted by the U.S.-based Center for Bible Engagement has shown daily Bible reading to be the single most powerful predictor of spiritual growth. Key findings of the global survey of more than 100,000 people indicate that if a …
Would you stop to help?
A lot of the news we hear is bad news – I suppose that’s just an indication of the kind of world we live in today. But one story I heard recently really troubled me, and got me thinking about our diminished capacity for compassion in the individualistic, narcissistic, social-media soaked world we inhabit. In …
Justice, compassion and asylum seekers
Three things give Christmas Island its reputation: phosphate mining (now in its last decade), the natural environment (who could forget those amazing red crabs), and the four detention centres where asylum seekers are housed while they await processing. The issue of desperate people trying to get to Australia in leaky boats deeply divides the community, …
Is Australia a Christian nation?
Four days ago the Rev Fred Nile made a stirring speech in the NSW Upper House on the subject of Australia as a Christian nation. American Christians often claim the United States as a Christian nation, founded by men who took their faith seriously and instilled Christian principles in the country’s central institutions and laws. …
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