As a teenager living in Papua New Guinea, I used to accompany my parents to student Christian fellowship meetings at the home of Norm and Agnes Chambers in Jawani St, Lae. Those were good times. I was unaware at the time, but I was being deeply formed, as a new Christian, in the way of …
The place where heaven and earth meet
For some time, I have been working with an eclectic group of Christians from various denominations to create a new kind of ecumenical presence in Sydney. It all came to fruition in an impressive launch event at the NSW Parliament on Friday 8 August, with NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns, Liberal Opposition Leader Mark Speakman, …
What on earth is God doing?
Michael Osterholm was director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota during the COVID-19 pandemic. Asked when he thought Covid might become endemic, he said, “Every morning I get up I scrape five inches of crusted mud off my crystal ball. And every day, it seems cloudier and cloudier … Any modeling that looks beyond 30 …
How to crack the prophetic code
Welcome to the first week of a sermon series on the mysterious last book in the Christian Bible, the Book of Revelation. There’s a lot of ground to cover, and today I want to lay a foundation for what follows by explaining how to crack the “prophetic code," and suggesting why I think this book is …
The end of history
[This is a transcript of a sermon on Revelation 21:1-6 preached by Rod Benson at Lithgow, Australia, in May 2018] When the Apostle John recorded the fantastic visions we encounter in the Book of Revelation, I believe he fully intended the words and images to be understood by ordinary readers in his own time. There …
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