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Unprecedented times?

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Simon Gillham

About 10 years ago I was in the north of Nigeria, in a region dominated by the Islamic group, Boko Haram. I was locked away in a church compound guarded by the army, training a group of local evangelists. Just down the road a bomb was set off outside…

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Christ: Up there and down here (Ephesians 4:8–10)

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 by Lionel Windsor

In late August 2005, “one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history” ravaged the southern coast of the nation. Hurricane Katrina brought about destruction on a vast scale. Winds of up to 280 km/h and a 9-metre storm surge caused flooding…

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Scapegoat

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by Brooke Hazelgrove

A crisis really brings out something different in us, doesn’t it? Back in the winter of 2019, I was getting worried because there wasn’t any rain. Most of Australia that could be on fire was on fire for the entire summer that followed. Then the rains…

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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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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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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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