Our Father in heaven,We bow in your presence.Open our hearts and minds to you.May your Word be our rule,Your Spirit our teacher,And your greater glory our supreme concern.We ask this in the strong nameof Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Adapted from a prayer by John R. W. Stott. Image source: JohnStott.org
How they persecuted the prophets
Persecution for political or religious beliefs is never pleasant. I am grateful that we live in a time and place where human rights are respected and defended, and where persecution is unacceptable in law, and eschewed by the vast majority of our fellow Australians. Sadly, that is not the case generally in our world today. …
Morning prayer for Wednesday 9 July 2025
Invocation + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Pause for reflection Good morning, heavenly Father.We worship you, the creator and sustainer of the universe. Good morning, Lord Jesus.We worship you, Saviour and Lord of the world. Good morning, Holy Spirit.We worship you, sanctifier of the …
The test of true discipleship
Romanian Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a great twentieth-century scholar of religious history and religious experience. He is perhaps best known for his work on seeking to identify universal patterns in human history and experience, and for his theory of hierophanies, or “manifestations of the sacred.” For Eliade, persons and objects “acquire their reality, their identity, only …
Must have a short memory
We have all heard of the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2024, and the military responses and counter-responses. That deplorable conflict, far from over, is now further complicated by evidence of mass starvation, allegations of genocide in Gaza, and Israeli “pogroms” against Palestinians living in Israel. And this is merely …
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