Are Women Worth Less than Men in the Bible?

It’s a big accusation and a common accusation, that in the Bible, women are worth less than men. And one of the go-to Bible passages is Leviticus 27. The accusation arises because of shiny shekels. Women are valued at less shekels! A woman, in her prime is only valued at 30 shekels. A man of the same age is valued at 50 shekels. Shekels were like our Aussie dollar or the English pound, they were a unit of value for the ancient Jews. In Leviticus 27 if someone, a man or a woman, makes a special vow and they want...

Glenn Hohnberg

Better Than God?

Glenn Hohnberg

Pandemic Got You Praying? You’re Not Alone

Murray Campbell

Jesus’ Resurrection: Evidence or Blind Faith?

Ben Smart

Finding Life in the Midst of Death

Murray Campbell

Will God Hear My Prayers?

Glenn Hohnberg

I get it. You haven’t talked to your cousin for two years. But now you want to borrow their car and you’re making the phone call. And it feels totally wrong. If you’re feeling like that about praying to God—I get it. Maybe the last time you prayed was in the faded past before a vital high school exam or when a family member fell frighteningly sick in the middle of the night. And you haven’t prayed since. I get it—it feels wrong to pray now. God loves honesty, especially raw honesty. If these words don’t work for you, change...

Will God Hear My Prayers?

Glenn Hohnberg

Sneak a Look at Church Online: An Open Invitation

Dave McDonald

This is not a post for my friends who are pastors. They’re working overtime thinking about church online. This is for you, whether you go to church or you don’t. This is especially for those who don’t currently belong to a church and might be open to a sneak peek at church while we are all in lockdown. This is the first of a two-part blog series. The next one (link here) will be focused on how to make the most of church on line for those who go regularly. What should you look for? What do you have to...

Sneak a Look at Church Online: An Open Invitation

Dave McDonald

Jesus – Taking the Virus to Heal the Rest of Us

Rick Lewers

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friend.” As I continue to reintroduce Jesus Christ to our thinking, I wonder if you knew that this is something Jesus Christ said. I wonder if you know that this is what Jesus Christ did. In fact he went one very big step further. One man who was prepared to take an honest look at himself in the aftermath of Jesus Christ’s death admitted, “that while we were in the activity of sin, rebellion against God, Jesus Christ died for us.” People may consider dying for...

Jesus – Taking the Virus to Heal the Rest of Us

Rick Lewers

Forgiveness

Peter Orr • Rory Shiner

Peter Orr and Rory Shiner continue their series introducing key Christian concepts. This time, forgiveness and sin. On the November 8th, 1987 the annual Remembrance Day memorial service was being held in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Among the attendees were local business-man Gordon Wilson and his 20-year-old daughter Marie. At 10:43am the IRA detonated an 18kg bomb in the vicinity of the service. Eleven people were killed that day including Marie Wilson. The twelfth victim, Ronnie Wilson (no relation to Gordon or Marie) died after spending 13 years in a coma. The bombing drew a ferocious reaction from around the world....