The Mysterious and Christmas are philosophical necessities of the Salvation story
Our four year old grand daughter asked her Christian parents "Why wasn\'t God a baby?" and their response that Jesus was a baby, wasn\'t a good-enough answer. So the question was put to her grand-parents to come up with a satisfactory answer for the pre-schooler. .
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Christmas helps focus on the nature of freedom as we look afresh at the birth of Christ
Each and every day I receive innumerable Emails and an ever dwindling amount of snail-mail. Along with the usual correspondences, sometimes there is a "gem" and this is one such item of mail, sent as a fund raiser for Coaches of Influence in Los Angeles written by its founder, a good friend, Nelson Cook.
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Christmas gifts to friends - 6 types of friends fit hand in glove with Christian friendship and ministry
A recent article in News.com titled \'The six different friends everyone should have\' summarised the feature in its first paragraph, "Just like a band or gang of superheroes needs members who have different talents and powers, a circle of friends should have exactly the same thing."
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Ramon Williams a hero of Australian Christian Media
If you read any published Australian Christian 'news' article over the past 50 years, it has almost certainly been distributed by one of the greatest unsung heroes of the Australian Christian movement, the "AAP-equivalent" of Christian wire news, Ramon Williams, now aged 81.
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Christmas week reflects the London Olympics and Paralympics - assessing Christian media
This Christmas week might be an ideal time to reflect on the Christian media presenting the London Olympics to the world – a task which was a very different responsibility to the secular media reporting on results and other colourful situations associated with any Olympics.
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Footplate Padre tells the story of the all-night sitter and the red dust of the Mallee
As the Footplate Padre I write a monthly article for the On-Track railway e-magazine and this month\'s story is about an all-night sitter freight train and the red dust of drought in the Mallee district of Victoria.
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A Sydney first - Big Aussie Christmas BBQ for the homeless
Today the homeless of Sydney will enjoy the spirit of the Christmas season when The Exodus Foundation puts on a big Aussie Christmas BBQ in Marrickville.
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Laguna Quays Respite for Missionaries has had a huge year
'Basil Sellers' Laguna Quays Respite facility for missionaries located on the Whitsundays mainland a little south of Proserpine on Repulse Bay, has enjoyed a huge year with much of it "head to toe" bookings to meet the opportunity to serve those requesting some recuperation, a rest.
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Australians: give yourselves a gold star for reducing energy consumption and pollution
Let\'s be honest, Australia has a small population, and our efforts alone are not going to solve any environmental problems. But we should also be honest and give ourselves credit for \'doing our bit\' so far. Proverbs 21 verse 20 "\"There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.\"
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NZ young writers – One more for 2013, invitation to write a monthly article for Christian Today
The New Zealand young writer\'s program was initiated in August with 12 young people (18-30 years of age) writing a monthly Comment article for Christian Today Australia and circulated internationally each Friday.
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A national issue: Ways of encouraging youngsters to do science - Pearl Harbour and Darwin illustrations!
Seventy one years ago today the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour where radar was in its infancy and had this science been understood better the air defence would have met the Japanese in the air and the harbour ships would have been ready for the attack. This same Japanese fleet attacked Darwin six weeks later on the 19 February 1942 and again radar would have alerted defences. Science is of ever present value.
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Christianity Today announces leadership change
Mark Galli and Andy Crouch are to lead the US magazine Christianity Today.
