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What Will Christianity Look Like In 50 Years?

A new study forecasts Islam will be on the brink of overtaking Christianity in 50 years. Christianity will continue to grow, but mostly in Africa, while steadily declining in its traditional hubs. This is according to the latest Status of Global Christianity...

Anzac Divisions Over Welcome To Country

Christian commentator Stephen McAlpine believes the booing of Welcome to Country ceremonies at Anzac Day services that we saw last Saturday will continue unless there are changes. In an interview with Vision Radio he explained his view on what’s causing these...

Israel Moves To Strengthen Ties With Christians

Israel has appointed its first special envoy to the Christian world and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hosted a group of Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Christians in a bid to strengthen its relationship with the global Christian community. It follows...

Court Clears Pro-Life Grandmother

A 75-year-old pro-life Christian grandmother has been acquitted of charges of breaching Scotland’s recently introduced laws regulating behaviour within buffer zones outside its hospitals. Rose Docherty was the first person to be charged with “influencing”...

Bondi Shooting Survivor Forgives The Gunmen

Ya’akov Tetleroyd is a survivor of the terror attack on the Hanukkah by the Sea celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14. He was seriously wounded when a bullet tore through his elbow. “After I was shot, I was bleeding very heavily,” he recalled and feared he...

Seeking Raw Worship: Honesty. Repentance. Revival.

Thousands of American college students have rallied once again in pursuit of Jesus Christ, with hundreds saying “Yes” to the Gospel in a campus outreach at Oklahoma State University (OSU). CBN News reports it’s more evidence of a spiritual awakening among the...

UK Council Moves To Silence Pastor, Church

The Bread of Life Community Church in Essex, England has been issued with a Community Protection Notice (CPN) that could criminalise its pastor and its members for preaching the Gospel in the centre of the city of Colchester. This is believed to be an...

US President Joins Public Reading Of The Bible

President Trump and 500 others including many of America’s most prominent Christians have been taking part in a marathon reading of the Bible all this week, in an event billed as encouraging a “return to the spiritual foundation that has shaped our country.”...

Court Ruling Brings Law Closer To Defining Sex

The Human Rights Law Alliance (HRLA) says the Federal Court has moved Australian discrimination law one step closer to acknowledging biological sex. That matters dearly to HRLA, which “defends the rights of Christians to live in accordance with a Biblical...

How Angels Saved A Pastor’s Family

Prominent Indian pastor Abhishek Masih of Agape Global Ministries who is currently living in Brisbane, has told how a pair of angels saved his life and the lives of his wife, son and mother, 10 years ago, They were in their car when they were suddenly...

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To be used by God

‘These are the very Scriptures that testify about Me.’ John 5:39 NIV To be used by God, you must know two things: (1) Who God is. A little girl in Sunday school was asked by her teacher what she was drawing. She replied, ‘A picture of God.’ The teacher said, ‘But nobody has ever seen Him.’ Confidently she replied, ‘They will when I’m finished!’ Please understand this: the only God some people...

Don’t let a wall build up between you

‘Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.’ 1 Corinthians 13:7 NLT An unknown author wrote these poignant words: ‘Their wedding picture mocked them from the table, these two whose minds no longer touched each other. They lived with such a heavy barricade between them that neither battering ram of words nor artilleries of touch could break...

Give God all the glory

‘The twenty-four elders fall down before Him… and cast their crowns before the throne.’ Revelation 4:10 NKJV When we try to impress people we consider to be important, we become trophy collectors. ‘I’m more important because I know this famous person’ is how our thinking goes. And all kinds of objects can become trophies: our grades in school, the houses we live in, people we have impressed, our...

Always agree with God’s Word

‘The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.’ Luke 6:45 NIV Do you think of yourself as a person who has faith in God? Do your thoughts and words reflect that? We can deceive ourselves into thinking we have great faith, but if challenges easily defeat us, then maybe our faith isn’t as great as we thought it was. Jesus said, ‘The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.’ (Luke 6:45 NIV) You can...

You can learn to love

‘Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.’ Philippians 2:4 NLT You can learn to love by thinking loving thoughts. By focusing on the other person’s needs, pains, difficulties, goals, and desires, not just your own. The old saying goes, ‘It’s easier to understand someone when you walk a while in their shoes.’ Hurting people tend to hurt other people. If...

Learn to say no

‘I brought glory to You here on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do.’ John 17:4 NLT To say yes to the will of God, you will have to say no to other things. And some people won’t like it, especially if they are used to getting their own way. People will make demands on you based on their needs and be oblivious to or uncaring about your needs. So, you have a choice: be led by God or by...

Prayer and your RAS

‘The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.’ James 5:16 NIV To understand how prayer is powerful and effective, look at it from a neurological perspective. At the base of our brain lies a cluster of nerves called the reticular activating system (RAS), which monitors our environment. We are constantly bombarded with countless stimuli vying for our attention, and it is the job of...

Great leaders refuse to take credit

‘Honour one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal.’ Romans 12:10–11 NIV John Maxwell says: ‘Most leaders focus on two things: the vision and the bottom line. The vision is what usually excites us most, and taking care of the bottom line keeps us in business. But between the vision and the bottom line are all the people in your organisation… If you ignore the people and only pay...

The kids are watching you (2)

‘He who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.’ Proverbs 23:24 ESV If you’re a parent, you want your children to turn out well, and the best way to do that is by modelling proper behaviour at home by being imitators of God (see Ephesians 5:1). Learn to say no. American author Susan Alexander Yates says: ‘There are simply too many demands… choices, and too little time. Maturity means learning to...

The kids are watching you (1)

‘Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.’ Ephesians 5:1 ESV Susan Alexander Yates offers us Scriptural guidelines for influencing our kids. (1) Reach out to non-Christians. If you want kids to grow in faith, expose them to people who need faith. God called us to be ‘salt and light’ (see Matthew 5:13–16), but that won’t happen if you spend all your free time with fellow believers....