Nationalism fails to be Christian because it turns a blind eye to our own evil – as though it could be confined to the past, or was not our doing, or was a product of a different time, or was ‘well intended’, or was not the whole story.
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God, History and Australia Day – Kanishka Raffel
Pursuing Sanctification – God’s work or ours? Part 1 – Daniel Bishop
John Owen says Christians need to “be killing sin, or it will be killing you.”[1] Yet from my experience most Christians aren’t employing everything they have at their disposal to kill sin or to pursue sanctification in any regard. The most I hear about this is the throwaway line, “I’m struggling with X sin” but upon further questioning often those who say this aren’t struggling at all with a sin; they’ve often simply identified that they have a persistent sin, and yet do nothing about it.
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An Aboriginal Pastor shares on Australia Day
“There’s a heartache still in this land,” says Pastor Michael Duckett of the Macarthur Indigenous Church as he shares a message for Australia Day, calling on non-indigenous Australians to remember the mixed feelings in the Aboriginal community about the day.
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Reading Ephesians (Ephesians 6:21–24)
This is the 70th—and final—post in Lift Your Eyes, a series of reflections covering every sentence in the apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. We’ve now come to Paul’s closing greeting. This greeting tells us a lot about the circumstances of the letter and summarises some of its key themes. So this final reflection is a good opportunity to look back over Ephesians, to summarise what it’s all about, and to remember why it’s worth taking the time to read and reflect on this amazing letter.
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We need you – you need us, Aboriginal leader tells Christians – Anne Lim
The respected Aboriginal Christian leader invited the congregation in the city centre to “come on a journey with Aboriginal people … we’re going to change this nation.”
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How long, Lord, must we call for help?
In light of the recent Australian bushfires, we perhaps cannot be blamed for asking, Why is God allowing such a thing to happen? How can God turn a blind eye to the devastation that has come as a result of these fires – the loss of property, animals, even human life? Why doesn’t God do something about it? Why does God allow so many to needlessly suffer?
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