Parliamentarian Adolof Gogoya found his calling

Parliamentarian Adolof Gogoya found his calling

Papua Indonesian Adolof Gogoya was elected as a member of the local Parliament representing Jayapura, which is a city situated on the north east coast..

  • The future or pie in the sky ?

    The Australian Missionary News IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) kicks off with its first video, the testimony of Baptist World Alliance\'s Fausto Vasconelas, on two separate sites, one is open www.tv.bushorchestra.com and one is password-secure, www.safeworlds.net.

  • Redundant males, redundant humanity

    Two recent bioethics announcements have added a few more nails to the coffin of humanity. While these new biomedical breakthroughs promise much about medical research, cures, and progress, what they are really about is the end of man – both as the male gender, and as humanity. The two recent reports both have to do with the use of embryonic stem cells.

  • Consensual interpretation of unwritten rules

    The Ashes Cricket series between Australia and England is underway and it has been noted that retired Australian cricket wicketkeeper and batsman Adam Gilchrist, speaking on ABC News Radio about his early cricket years, spoke of two incidents relating to \'walking\' that affected him deeply.

  • The Bible is already online

    The English language Bible in its many translations, has been online for over two decades.

  • A review of The Darwin Myth. By Benjamin Wiker.

    With this year being a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of his Origin of the Species, there has been much hagiography produced about Darwin. While many biographies try to paint Darwin as a secular saint, Wiker is willing to ask hard question about his life and teachings.

  • Ron de Gray Birch: South Africa to Papua New Guinea

    \'Guttermost to Uttermost\' is how Ron de Gray Birch describes his story in being saved from his own destructiveness to a life of serving in Christian ministry, ending up serving as pastor of Port Moresby Baptist church.

  • Pastoral Care, Evangelism, Theological Reflection and a Hallmark comment !

    Famous Australian Football League (AFL) coach Tom Hafey, adopted Christian chaplaincy ministry for the Sydney Swans in 1985 when he was their coach.

  • By the Rivers of Babylon

    One of the saddest and most shattering passages in the whole of the Bible is Psalm 137:1-4: "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion!' How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a foreign land?"

  • Joshua Avia, nurturing one Hosanna church a month

    The Hosanna Church Brisbane was launched by Joshua Avia in January 2009, and by March the congregation had moved to a Sports and Recreation centre which they are now purchasing, moreover, it has seven tennis courts. Over seventy percent of their congregation is involved in their sports ministry.

  • Truth and Christianity

    The Christian religion places a tremendous premium on truth. If Christianity is not true, then it is not worth following. Indeed, that is the ultimate test as to whether a religion should be followed or not. All other reasons may well be secondary at best.

  • Why the Sun is Setting on England

    In its heyday it was said of the British Empire that the sun never set on it. Because so many lands across the globe bore the English flag, it was once the world's great superpower. Of course today that grand empire is no more. And for that matter, England itself is almost no more.