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The Cost of Unbelief

The Cost of Unbelief

Australian atheists were recently prevented from running a series of ads on buses with the message, "There's probably no God, so sleep in on Sundays." It was a funny ad and should have been permitted, and if the Bureau of Statistics A Picture of a Nation report is anything to go by, there's a generation of young people who don't need convincing. .

  • Humanity Endures in Bushfire Tragedy

    During the financial turmoil this summer, images of fire have abounded. The economy is said to be going into meltdown. Shareholdings turn to ashes. On the stockmarket, an inferno destroys value. The images always seem a little stretched, a little self-important. This weekend we have seen why.

  • Discovering the Young Church

    John the Baptist had pointed them toward Jesus, and Jesus had invited them to come and follow him. Simon Peter was also called later that day, so these three fishermen, John, Andrew and Simon Peter, were the first disciples.

  • International Award for Australian Couple

    The Lay Witnesses for Christ International (LWCI) Sports Awards is the equivalent of the US \'Sports Ministry Logies\'. This year, an International Award has been added to the gala night and it it has been awarded to Australia\'s Mark and Delma Tronson.

  • Population Control: Pharaoh and Herod Are Alive and Well

    Those who are biblically-literate will know that an Egyptian Pharaoh of 3,500 years ago and a Jewish King of 2000 years ago share at least one thing in common. They both sought to put to death a generation of innocents. Pharaoh ordered the death of all male babies (Exodus 1:16), while King Herod ordered the death of all male children under two years of age (Matt. 2:16).

  • Footplate Padre Recounts Astonishing Story

    Footplate Padre Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister of 32 years recounts an astonishing story in his February article for the \'On Track\' E-railway magazine.

  • The Struggle to Believe is not a Futile One

    Bus advertisements by evangelistically-minded atheists are urging people to wake up and enjoy the godless life, but I often get the opposite response when people discover that I have a faith. "I'm jealous of your beliefs-I wish I could be certain like you."

  • A Remarkable Journey

    As cricket chaplains, Mark and Delma Tronson, head off to Dallas Texas next week for an International Award for 27 years in sports ministry including their international prayer networking for the Right Track 2008 Beijing Ministry (RT2008BM). They have have been reflecting on their remarkable journey. Mark has now been a Baptist minister for 32 years.

  • What Can We Do?

    For those people concerned about pro-faith, pro-family and pro-life issues, these are dark days indeed. In the West these values are taking a hammering. It really seems that a new Dark Ages is about to descend. Simply opening the morning newspaper or turning on the evening newscast can be a discouraging and depressing experience.

  • Actual Guaranteed Way to Save Money with the Lowest Ever Interest Rate

    Interest rates are the lowest they have ever been but they could fall even further. Official interest rates are now 3.25%, the lowest they have ever been. The previous low was 4.25%. The 3.25% is the Reserve Bank target rate, not the rate you will pay at your bank for your home loan. You are likely to pay interest of around 5% to your bank for your home loan.

  • Nixon Should not March in Homosexual Pride Event

    Almost the first thing Victorian Police Commissioner Christine Nixon did when appointed was to endorse and march in the Melbourne homosexual pride march of 2002.

  • AIS men's basketball take respite in Moruya

    The Australian Institute of Sport\'s men\'s basketball ball squad enjoyed their annual \'respite visit\' to Basil Sellers House at Moruya on the New South Wales south coast over the final three days of January.