“I have set watchmen upon thy walls O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night … till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6–7)
In recent years we have seen how close the world is coming to completely unravelling. Just over two years ago the world economy w…
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It is sometimes difficult for us to decide how far we should go in our involvement with the world without compromising our faith, our loyalty to Christ. It can be difficult to find a balance. On the one hand we could become exclusive and have little or nothing to do with our contemporaries and fall …
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Construction work on a new metro rail line in Rome will provide a unique opportunity to excavate the Forum of Peace, reports Rossella Lorenzi[1]. The Forum of Peace was built in the first century AD by the Flavian emperors, and is sometimes known as the Forum of Vespasian, after the founder of the F…
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The book of Ecclesiastes seeks to answer perhaps the greatest question of man’s existence: What is the meaning of life? What is it worth if lived as an end in itself? Is it possible for man to find ultimate fulfilment in anything that is done under the sun? In short, Ecclesiastes is The Quest for …
In the cold pre-dawn of a spring morning in 1915 thousands of young soldiers from Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the British Empire stormed beaches on the desolate Gallipoli peninsula in the Aegean Sea. They were met by determined resistance from thousands of Turkish troops desperate to f…
The above caption headed an article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in The New Republic which was re-printed in The Australian 19/8/10. Geoffrey Wheatcroft wrote: “Whether cause or effect is hard to say, but political Islam has revived in Turkey. The Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan has said the E…
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A few years ago no young boy ever yearned for a shiny new red bicycle. One hundred years ago no young man ever dreamed of a shiny red sports car. Fifty years ago no one hoped to get a laptop computer to play the latest electronic games.
Why? These things did not exist. It is difficult to want som…
Luke writes concerning God’s thoughts and values in contrast to man’s, “that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God” (16:15); and God instructs us in Isaiah, “ my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways … For as the heavens are higher …
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“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13
The following article records the remarkable events that took place in the life of Sister Sophie Derecki which led her, and in due course her family, to accept the Truth of the Gospel. Though in…
What would you do if you had $20,000,000? Would you go on a spending spree and buy all the things that you’d thought you’d never be able to afford? Or would you perhaps splash out a bit to celebrate, but then save the rest or invest it in some form or other? If you found yourself in possession o…
A 20 Million Dollar Question! Read More »
