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Characteristics of Tall Poppies

Characteristics of Tall Poppies

This Australia Day a number of significant people will be honoured by awards for distinguished service to the community and nation. We all recognise these achievements for community, military, and national service. There are also other honours during the year for bravery under danger and achievement of various kinds. For example, every year, from all across Australia, successful people are interviewed by thirty or so distinguished judges before one of them is declared to be "Entrepreneur of the .

  • Australia Day 2008 'Perceptions of Evangelical Australia'

    As a celebration of Australia Day 2008, Mark Tronson says that one of his passions is to be part of the process that tries to clear up the false perceptions of Evangelicalism in Australia.

  • The Man & The Story Behind Amazing Grace (pt 7)

    The preacher is John Newton. He is a forty-seven-year-old curate in the parish church of St Peter and St Paul for nearly eight years. The place is Olney. It is a village of a working class and farming community, known for its bobbin-lace manufacturing and Shrove Tuesday pancake race.

  • The Man & The Story Behind Amazing Grace (pt 6)

    At the age of twenty nine, John, a growing disciple, turned his back on the sea and 'the business at which his heart now shudders', and took up a position as the tide surveyor (a custom officer) in Liverpool, England. During this period he came to admire the earnestness of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, and the eloquence of George Whitefield, the evangelistic preacher in the Church of England. Over the next four years, he grew in grace and in the knowledge of his Lord and Sa

  • The Man & The Story Behind Amazing Grace (pt 5)

    After his dramatic conversion, John, a changed man, was understandably amazed at the newness of his life in Christ. He wrote: "I stood in need of an Almighty Saviour, and such an one I found described in the New Testament. The Lord had wrought a marvelous thing: I was no longer an infidel. I heartily renounced my former profaneness; was seriously disposed, and sincerely touched with a sense of undeserved mercy in being brought safe through so many dangers; I was sorry for my past misspent life…

  • Interview - Wendy Toulmin, the Executive Officer of the Australian Langham Partnership

    Christian Today Australia recently caught up with Wendy Toulmin, the Executive Officer of the Australian Langham Partnership, to learn more of the Langham Partnership - its achievement during 2007 and its plans and dreams for 2008.

  • A layman's overview of Islam

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson has been for some time searching for a layman\'s overview of Islam. The media rarely speaks of the 300 million Muslims who live as best they can from one day to the next in their daily lives wherever they live, as do all of us in Australia.

  • What Protesters against Arab Australians don't want you to know

    We have seen in Australia heated public debate surrounding specific national and local events such as the trial, conviction and sentencing of gang-rapists in Sydney in 2001 and 2002. This has been exacerbated by the growing numbers of asylum seekers from the Middle-East and Muslim countries. This has resulted in increasing hostility towards diverse communities of Arab and Muslim Australians. The USA September 11 and the Bali bombings were tragic events which left us grappling with a maelstrom of

  • Interview - Richard Chin, National Director of AFES

    Christian Today Australia recently caught up with Richard Chin, the national director of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES), and he gave a brief overview of what happened in the ministry.

  • Theology affects Israel thinking

    Baptist minister Mark Tronson has a well credentialed interest in Jewish Ministry. Currently he is alarmed at the perceived growing influence of well-meaning Christian leaders who disassociate themselves from the biblical prophetic announcements of God\'s promises to Jewish people regarding the land of Israel.

  • Interview - Ross Clifford, President of the Baptist Union of Australia

    Christian Today Australia recently caught up with Reverend Dr. Ross Clifford, the president of the Baptist Union of Australia and also the principal of Morling College, to give an overview of the news happening in the Baptist community.

  • Gorillas in the Mist at the Lakes Evangelical Church, Berkley Vale

    Here on the oval of the Berkeley Vale Rugby Club, the title that was given to me for this presentation on Africa – Gorillas in the Mist – sounds like after a hard match, the Berkeley Vale Rugby Club scrum is seen coming out of the hot showers!