Jason

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Does Jesus Exist?
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The victim’s acknowledgement

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A lady tells her pastor's wife Lauren, “I wish I could talk to you about problems that I'm having in my marriage but I don't think you'd understand. Your marriage is so perfect and your husband is so gentle.” Lauren says something about how the Bible has all the answers. However... deep in her subconscious, something made Lauren feel like screaming, but she squelched it with, “Every marriage has some problems.” Horrifyingly, the hidden facts

So what about separation?

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  So I've spent the week at Oxygen 2014 sitting under, and publicly engaging, the preaching of men like Don Carson, Francis Chan, John Lennox, Paul Tripp, and Bryan Chapell. But what about separation? What about contending for the faith? Doesn't the fact that some of these men hold to very different theology and some of them have hung out with guys who are really wrong on some stuff matter? How can I, in good

Australia’s premiere evangelical event?

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KCC's Oxygen is becoming, it seems to me, Australia's premiere evangelical event. This week 1,500+ Christian leaders have gathered in Sydney to rally around the gospel of Jesus Christ. The dominant majority of the preaching and teaching has been contentful, theologically sound, gospel-saturated, and passionately felt. If you're looking for a place to develop a network of gospel-driven, theologically-inclined, evangelistically-impassioned followers of Jesus the Christ, this is an event you should seriously consider attending when

Some thoughts on Oxygen so far

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  Here are some observations from my time here at Oxygen 2014 so far. Concerns First, there is a danger that, in trying to bring people together from a broad spectrum of Christian circles, we can so dilute the content of our combined fellowship as to make it tepid. For instance, the most beneficial plenary session so far, from my perspective, has been John Lennox's apologetic discussion. Not because it was necessarily exceptional in it's

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. –C.H. Spurgeon
According to the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study, those surveyed who said they were poor, struggling to pay bills, or just getting along grew from 34% in 2020 to 40% in 2025.
According to the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study, trust in the government in Canberra to do the right thing for the Australian people fell from 54% in 2020 to 37% in 2025.
According to the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute’s Mapping Social Cohesion study, those surveyed who said they had a sense of belonging in Australia fell from 63% in 2020 to 46% in 2025.
According to the 2026 National Stigma and Discrimination Report Card (Australia), 68% of people experiencing mental health challenges reported that living with stigma and discrimination was worse than the symptoms of the mental illness itself.