Is Easter Believable?

Is Easter believable? That’s a question people have been asking for 2000 years. It may be a question you’re asking. Or it may be a question your friends or family are asking and you wish you had better answers. Well, this article won’t pretend to give you all the answers you’re after, whatever your current view of Jesus. But it will summarise some key arguments for thinking Easter is believable—that Jesus rose again—so you can draw your own conclusions. It will do so by looking at our earliest evidence for the resurrection, what we call 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. How early...

Des Smith

Shane Warne’s Death and Eternity

James Jeffery

A Fatal Flaw at The Heart of Evolutionary Morality

Akos Balogh

5 Secrets: How the Bible Helps You Understand Your Life and Its Meaning.

Andrew Moody

Are Women Worth Less than Men in the Bible?

Glenn Hohnberg

Better Than God?

Glenn Hohnberg

Have you ever noticed how some good people think they are better than God? They might be good because they are moralists or because they are religious. But it doesn’t matter: either way—really good people, whatever their belief system, tend to think they are better than God. Really good people, whatever their belief system, tend to think they are better than God. I was listening to a friend go on and on about how God, if he exists, has done this or that and it’s all wrong. I’m sure they thought they were just being reasonable, but they weren’t. I...

Better Than God?

Glenn Hohnberg

Pandemic Got You Praying? You’re Not Alone

Murray Campbell

Anna Patty highlighted in The Age yesterday that Australians are “opening their minds to spirituality and prayer.” McCrindle Research has found evidence that a growing number of Australians are considering prayer and reading the Bible during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is welcome but, in some ways, not surprising. When faced we are faced with the reality of our mortality, many of us begin to ask the important questions about life and death and God. When life loses its security and certainty, we start looking for someone in whom we can place our hope. Considering God is the most natural thing in the...

Pandemic Got You Praying? You’re Not Alone

Murray Campbell

Jesus’ Resurrection: Evidence or Blind Faith?

Ben Smart

When it comes to discussions about Christianity and Atheism, it’s often suggested that Christianity is based on blind faith, but atheism is based on evidence. Christians just believe what they’re told. Atheists follow the evidence where it leads. Now, there are a number of reasons why that’s a faulty assumption, but for one thing it fails to recognise that Christianity stands or falls precisely on evidence. The Bible itself appeals to first-hand eye-witness accounts to substantiate the claim that Jesus physically rose from the dead. And there is more solid evidence for the resurrection of Jesus than most people realise....

Jesus’ Resurrection: Evidence or Blind Faith?

Ben Smart

Finding Life in the Midst of Death

Murray Campbell

A young Chinese woman with a little girl started attending our church three years ago. She was battling cancer and had decided that she needed answers to questions that went beyond her medical diagnosis: Why me? What is life meant to be about? Is there a God who is interested and cares? She needed answers to questions that went beyond her medical diagnosis: Why me? What is life meant to be about? Is there a God who is interested and cares? Christine was a highly intelligent and capable woman, raised in a family and culture that took atheism as a...