Monthly Archives: November 2017

This headline might seem peculiar in an Australian context but people will soon have to choose which type of evil regime they prefer to tolerate – possibly both of them together. The evil of Nazism can be identified by the current term, identity politics. This means, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, “allocating political power, contracts, jobs and now even salaries in the private economy based on the politics of skin colour or gender rather than merit or…..

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Old Testament prophets wrote about the Day of the LORD; a day on which God would right all wrongs, vindicate his faithful people and bring justice to the earth. This expectation probably reached its zenith of optimism in the book of the prophet, Joel 2:28-32, most likely written after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC. That was a very low point in Israel’s history but prophets still looked to better days ahead for God’s people. It would not…..

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“Justification” means that God confers his righteousness to humans (sinners) who can never do enough to please God so that they are entitled to be justified. But how is justification obtained? The real answer is by the grace (free unmerited favour) of God through faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. This week I attended an informative seminar on Justification by Faith. Such events have been stimulated by the celebration of Martin Luther’s nailing of his 95 statements to the…..

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Quoted from a speech by Hon Dyson Heydon (former justice of the High Court of Australia), as reported in The Australian newspaper on 2/10/17.   “The tolerance practised by modern elites is tyrannical. They say: “You must listen to what I am going to say. Then you must either praise my virtue or shut up. Because if you try to say you disagree and why, you deserve to be, and you will be, hounded out of all decent society.” Thus…..

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At the same time as the OT people of Israel worshipped Yahweh, many also worshipped idols, made of wood, stone or metal. Some were in their homes and others were on public display. The people of Israel often forgot God’s First Commandment – no other gods but me. Christians in the 21st century have become much more sophisticated than to bow down to things made by human hands. However, quite a few are willing to bow down to idols made…..

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