Apologetics
Journaling and doubts
The Okay to Doubt Series, Part 2 Journaling As I said last week, most Christians go through periods of doubt at one time or another, from the famous to us “ordinary” Christians. Ironically, God often uses our doubt phases, to make our faith stronger in the long run. As we know, He can and does […]
Freemasons
One netfriend asked: Could somebody tell me exactly what it is that makes the mason’s belief system satanic? I remember a long time ago reading a book by tex mars on the subject but can only remember that symbols played a big part in the mason’s society. And another question…would the organizations called “rainbow for […]
Australians, foreign aid and immigrants
From a netfriend: Recent postings have raised issues of overseas aid and asylum seekers. Governments of all colours are regularly berated for low levels of aid. While we can’t be flies on the wall at Costello family gatherings, we are treated to Tim’s statements and media beatups on their alleged quarrels. Imagine, two brilliant legal […]
Seeking Asylum in a Christian Country
Thankyou for your comments on Asylum Seekers and Sen. Vanstone’s interview with Andrew Denton. Given that Australia has arrested the flow of those seeking asylum through the imposition of mandatory detention and the crack down on people smugglers is there any support for what some would call genuine asylum seekers? Here is a hypothetical: A […]
Have We Room for Thoughtful Political Debate? (Gordon McDonald)
Leader’s Insight Have We Room for Thoughtful Political Debate? Observations on the new “gloom and doom” from Gordon’s journals. by Gordon MacDonald, Leadership editor at large Thoughts while staring into space: Adlai Stevenson (twice-contender for the U. S. presidency in the 1950s) is credited with originating the phrase “gloom and doom.” The G&D message seemed […]
Dialog about suffering
Response to http://jmm.org.au/articles/4810.htm I (RC) wrote: There are about eight classical Christian responses to the question ‘Why Suffering?’ and one is better than the other seven. See http://jmm.org.au/articles/4810.htm BF responded: What? You’re going to make me actually READ something? Sheesh… “Where is God when an eight year old girl – a good, happy little girl […]
Australian politics and Christians
One friend wrote: let’s also discern Christian voices that can be heard on both sides of parliament, be thankful that they have the freedom and guts to speak out for the faith Another responded: But do they really have the freedom and guts to speak out for the faith, or do they only have the […]
Hitting a nerve: News, religion, class
This column was syndicated by Scripps Howard News Service on 06/02/2004 When it comes to media-bias surveys, God is almost as big a story these days as the president of the United States. It helps if researchers release their work as journalists prepare for trench warfare in an election year. God is more newsworthy when […]
Federal Marriage Amendment And Gays In Marriage
From a netfriend: Hi, I fully appreciate your concerns re the threat of gay marriage but I am also awfully concerned how a strict biological definition of sex will affect thousands of intersexed men and women who have hitherto always had the right to marry. For example, women with complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome are women, […]
Christianity and Politics
[This is excellent. Rowland]. John Mere’s Commemoration Sermon St Benet’s Church, Cambridge Tuesday 20 April 2004 ‘We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ’ (II Cor. 10.5) One of the options afforded to John Mere’s preacher is to teach ‘due obedyence of the subjectes to their princyes and of pupills to their […]
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