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The blood that brings us close (Ephesians 2:11–13)

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 by Lionel Windsor

Every so often, I go to a local community college to watch Israeli films with some of my Jewish friends. Recently, we watched a film called A Borrowed Identity. It’s a beautiful film, based on a touching memoir by popular Israeli Palestinian…

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Why I love the Apostle Paul

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by Jane Tooher

The apostle Paul has been hated for 2000 years by many men and women, with endless papers, books and talks about how awful he was and how he got things so wrong. But that’s not the whole story. There are also many of us—including many women—who love…

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Christian Living

How to Break Up With Your Phone

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 by Kirsten McKinlay

We all know there are countless benefits to smartphones, yet even the secular world is becoming increasingly alarmed by how our phones are changing us for the worse. Like many of us, I really appreciated Tony Reinke’s 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing…

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Christian Living Ministry

Social media, content manipulation, and the light of the gospel

March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 by Angus Martin

I once heard a phrase used in a philosophy discussion, “We’re swimming in streams.” It is a phrase that describes the concept of a worldview and the way we operate within that worldview. The way we unconsciously perform daily life. The thing that…

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Christian Living

Confident Discipleship

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 by Callan Pritchard

Death and Taxes “But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” So quipped Benjamin Franklin when reflecting on the impermanence of the newly minted American constitution. We can be confident of two things in life:…

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Christian Living

God, the Bible and Mardi Gras

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 by Ben George

The 2021 gay and lesbian Mardi Gras held at the Sydney Cricket Ground was quite a spectacle. It was colourful, loud, celebratory and was reported by various media outlets as being the best celebration yet (as it is every year). And yet, the Scriptures…

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Christian Living Complementarianism

Expressing godly womanhood in a secular workplace

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Ruth Baker

Editor’s note: This article is a personal reflection from a woman exploring how a complementarian understanding of men and women in Scripture might apply to her own working life. It does not seek to outline or defend the complementarian position…

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