Albany WA could have been another Vancouver!
Albany, on the southern toe of Western Australia, the gateway to the Antarctica could have been named Vancouver with its vast waterways as is the other Vancouver in Canada. .
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He's Not a Tame Lion
We live in an age in which everything has become trivialized and demeaned. We do not take things very seriously anymore, except perhaps ourselves. Sadly this disposition seems to have penetrated much of the church as well. And it becomes most apparent in our attitude toward the God of the universe.
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Has the whole truth been revealed?
After reading statistics that show that places of worship are dangerous, Mark Tronson, chairman of Well-Being Australia, asks: "Has the truth been revealed, or is this only half the story?"
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Claim: 15-20% of Indonesia's population is Christian
Recently, a new association of Christian broadcasters started up in Indonesia. To celebrate its birth, Christian communicators from across Indonesia and the Asia Pacific region gathered to discuss the value and importance of this organisation to provide greater strength and effectiveness in proclaiming the Gospel in the largest Muslim country in the world.
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Some ministers might need this T-Shirt
A new report says that Boron-treated T-Shirts may soon be strong enough to stop a speeding bullet. Scientists in the US have developed a flexible shirt made of the same material used in tank armour, by combining carbon in the shirt with the third-hardest material on Earth, boron
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Banged up abroad is real trouble
The television series \'Banged up Abroad\' should be a wake up call for Australians when they travel overseas, but sadly so many fail to take the warning and end up in legal systems that are very different to Australia.
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A serious matter: Is it worth the effort?
Australia it seems in not overly enthusiastic about hunting down former Nazi war criminals. In a recent Sydney Morning Herald report on this subject, the writer David Humphries made this comment on the nation\'s leaders lack of purpose: "The ambivalence fostered by reluctance served as comfort to dozens of suspected war criminals and rights abusers who had made Australia their home."
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The bush has many advantages
A recent news report which has created quite some interest, states that the Government is again toying with the idea that migrants will be required to move to regional and rural Australia. Over the past century, there have been many incentives for migrants to take up life in the country, the most well-known being the construction of the Snowy Mountains hydroelectricity scheme.
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A heart for Mission and sacrificial giving
A recent analysis done by business reporters at the Sydney Morning Herald showed that taxpayers in Western Australia\'s north-west and southern resources precincts, as well as in central Queensland\'s coal fields, are among the highest income earners in the country but are the least generous when making donations.
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Converging is a central theme
Footplate Padre Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister in his May \'On Track\' railway e-magazine article, explained that a level crossing is at its most dangerous were there is a double track, for trains running in opposite directions, as one train clears the level crossing just as another train is roaring through in the other direction.
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Fifty Years of Sexual Suicide
It was 50 years ago this month that the contraceptive pill was launched. It sparked a worldwide revolution which we are still feeling the effects of. It was a major factor in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and it was meant to be a leading feature of so-called sexual liberation.
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Worldliness
OK, when was the last time you heard a sermon warning against worldliness? I suspect for most believers it would have been a very long time indeed. There are several reasons for this. Likely it is because we are in fact a very worldly church, and we don't like to speak to our particular sins, so we just drift along.