December, 2018 - Australian Church Record

The Bible’s guide to time travel (part 1): Trusting the original Time Lord

December 30, 2018 by Annabel Nixey

Time is a funny thing. It goes too fast. Then too slow. We want it to stand still and then wish it didn’t. We love losing track of it but incessantly strive to find it. There are few things more frustrating and difficult than running out of time or wasting…

Christmas Greetings, from 1918

December 24, 2018 by ACR Team

A very merry Christmas, from all of us on the ACR team! We wanted to share with you this Christ-centred carol written in for the ACR’s Christmas issue in 1918—we are glad to rejoice in the same great news today as they did 100 Christmases ago. Here…

Christmas: Satan’s field day?

December 18, 2018 by Mike Leite

Now the title of this article might appear a little too shocking for the ‘merry’ Christmas season… but let me highlight some of the ways that the great deceiver tries to take our minds off Christ during the Christmas period, before suggesting…

What’s with the shepherds at Christmas time?

December 16, 2018 by Annabel Nixey

What’s with the shepherds at Christmas time? In his biography, Luke explains that after Jesus’ birth a crowd of angels appeared to a group of shepherds out in the countryside and announced to them that the Christ-child had been born. He tells…

On choosing a Christmas diet

December 11, 2018 by Alice Brown

Here is a scary question: in the average day, how much time do you spend thinking about food? As Christmas looms, most of us spend even more time than usual thinking about menus. Who and what will you serve this festive season? There’s endless inspiration…

Biblical friendship (part 3): Cultivating friendship

December 9, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 and part 2, we looked at what a true friend is, and how Jesus is the ultimate friend. Now we’re going to think about how to cultivate biblical friendships through the lens of one of the great friendships recorded in the Bible: Jonathan and…

Your gut is wrong

December 4, 2018 by Mike Leite

The gut plays a very important role in the day-to-day life of those born after 1980. For one, these generations are obsessed with food, with every second meal being posted on Instagram and every second TV show relating to food. But the gut also…