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For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 According to Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, writing in The Spectator, Future intellectual historians will look back with wonder at the strange phenomenon of seemingly intelligent secularists in the 21st century believing that if they could show that the first chapters of Genesis are not literally true … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 16 Jun 2013 Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, wrote an extraordinary article in The Spectator yesterday, arguing that the so-called new atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, falsely believe that atheism will save the human race. They place their faith in science, but cannot explain morality. When asked, the new atheists … Continue reading
Sermon by Bob Smith My wife tells me that one of the most meaningful sermons she heard during her university days, when she was questioning the validity of faith, was a sermon titled the importance of doubting your doubts. It taught her that honest doubt is not the same as downright unbelief. It is often … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. Listeners may remember wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Christopher Reeve coming to Australia in 2003 to promote the legalisation of therapeutic cloning. He said it was absolutely necessary, and patients would die needlessly if humans were not cloned in the lab to extract embryonic stem cells for therapeutic purposes. Dissenters … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. A subtle shift in rainfall can be devastating in a country like Malawi where 80 per cent of the population subsists on rain-fed agriculture. The rains used to come by mid-October and fall steadily until March. These days the rains often don’t come until December. Sometimes it … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. Queensland family doctor David van Gend is one of those people either loved or loathed, depending on your view of religion and morality. He has often been in the media spotlight as President of the Australian Marriage Forum, defending natural marriage against alternatives. This week he published … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. One of the best ways to learn about God and God’s ways is to hear Bible stories retold – and there’s no better opportunity for that than as children. Two hundred years ago this month, Mr Thomas Hassall began Australia’s first Sunday School in the house of … Continue reading
For immediate release – 31 May 2013 The President of the NSW Council of Churches, the Reverend Dr Ross Clifford, has congratulated the NSW Government on launching an ambitious research project to help determine the most effective form of prevention and treatment for damage caused by gambling products. “We have long argued that problem gambling … Continue reading
Sermon by Dominic Steele 1. When something goes wrong in Paradise! Life is beautiful. Life is good. We expect things to be good – to go well. There is a very real sense that we live in Paradise! And so when something goes wrong, we get really upset and think what is God’s doing – … Continue reading
Sermon by Harry Goodhew INTRODUCTION When the much read author, lecturer, and pastor Eugene Peterson turned his attention to the last book of the Bible, the Revelation of Saints John, he described the author as a prophet, a poet and a pastor. This threefold description appropriately captures the character and purpose of the book which … Continue reading
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