• Lessons from the fires
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    [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] On Sunday when I first heard that there were some 30 fatalities from the Victoria fires, I was shocked. I just didn’t realise that the fires could be that deadly. Now with the death toll over 180 and expected to rise significantly, I

  • He knows we’re frail
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    “He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.” –Psalm 103:14 Times of difficulty and suffering remind us that we are frail. 1. We are spiritually frail. Those moments when we feel most strong and stable can be so close to those moments when we stumble and fail. We

  • The God-man is bleeding
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    I spoke to a man recently who came from a Charismatic background. He was looking for evidence of the Spirit in the form of healings and miracles. Then I watched a movie. A typical Christian movie. It was full of signs and miracles and changed lives, but not even one

  • Dare we call ourselves postmoderns?
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    Get this quotation from D. A. Carson: Thoughtful Christians will not want to align entirely with either modernism or postmodernism, of course, but the kindness of God in His “common grace” ensures that there are useful things in both epistemological structures that a Christian may usefully exploit, and things in

  • Postmodernism: Coming to a theatre near you
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    DISCLAIMER: The fact that a movie is referred to in this post does not imply that the movie is recommended by the editor, the blogging team, the GMT leadership team, any particular local church, or my pet gecko. Complaints may be directed to my pet gecko. The most influential preachers

  • My year on an A6 card
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    Lots of people have Christmas traditions but do you have any New Year’s traditions? Of course there’s always the old stay-up-til-midnight routine, but besides that. My New Year’s tradition For the last several years I’ve made a habit of sitting down sometime around the New Year and summarising my whole

  • The virgin birth and other tabloid headlines
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    Of all the doctrines of Scripture, there is none quite so intriguing as the virgin birth. I mean, this is tabloid material! “ALIENS ABDUCT KEVIN RUDD” “ORPHANED ELEPHANT RAISED BY PORCUPINE” “ELVIS SIGHTED IN PARIS” “VIRGIN HAS BABY” Incredible! … true. Unbelievable! … true. Beyond the bounds of reason! …

  • Self image and the image of God
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    Ok. So Genesis is the place to be if we want to understand a right self image (1:27). So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Three points about self image flow naturally from the text.

  • The power of self image
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    In recent decades, popular psychology has sold the idea that man’s problem is that his self esteem is too low. And Christians have bought it. In fact, many Christians have made it their gospel. But have we Fundamentalists over-reacted? First, I think of Joe Zichterman’s statement when he left Fundamentalism

  • Team evangelism in Australia
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    This last week my church had four days of evangelistic outreach with Steve Pettit and his team. The gospel was preached simply and many responded to it. I was blessed to see this team giving of themselves to reach out to others and see the gospel change lives. It was