At the church I pastor a returning missionary was giving a brilliant sermon on Acts 17. Mid-talk he paused and asked the congregation to discuss this question: “Is Jesus still...

In Part 1, Dan showed us that God’s sovereignty in our progressive sanctification (that is, our ongoing journey in holiness) is not in conflict with our efforts in this area,...

Last September the NSW Parliament passed the Abortion Law Reform Bill, which effectively decriminalised abortion in the state. The Sydney Anglican Synod met shortly afterwards, and so took the opportunity...

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,...

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...

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...