MP attacks a local church for preaching the Gospel: “I will be following this matter up further with a number of authorities”
Sonia Hornery MP launched an extraordinary attack on a local church this week when the evangelism they’ve been doing most weekends for several years coincided with an LGBTIQAX+ Pride Festival. The state MP for Wallsend, just West of Newcastle, NSW, accused the church of “hate speech” because they were preaching the Gospel to people attending the festival. Last weekend, Newcastle celebrated diversity at the Newcastle Pride Group Page Festival. Unfortunately, members of a local church thought it appropriate to put out hate flyers targeting people attending the festival. These flyers were handed out to people attending the Festival and placed all over cars parked…
The Separation of Church and State: What it is and what it’s not
The separation between Church and State is not a divide between secular and sacred. Nor is this separation a divide between public and private. Church and State are spheres of authority within the structure of good government. Simply put: one wields the sword, the other the truth of the Gospel. As such the Gospel balances out the ideology behind who gets to yield the sword, when, why and how. This is why every totalitarian state either twists theology or purges Christians and the Christian faith. They need to suppress God’s moral standard for His creatures, in order to justify their…
Church leaders need to stop apologizing for Israel Folau and begin to show some backbone
Church leaders need to stop apologizing and step up in support of Biblical Christianity. It’s disappointing to watch key leaders betray theology, in a pacifistic appeal to the Left, for fear of being excluded by them from the table of discussion. Appeasement never works. It didn’t work against the onslaught of fascism in the 1930s or during the Cold War, it won’t work now. As Winston Churchill once said, ‘it would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future; noting that appeasement encouraged the aggression of the Dictators and emboldened their power amongst their own…
How to uproot the Christian church, a masterclass from Louis XIV
By 1685 Louis XIV had from the age of four been the King of France for 42 years, and he still had another thirty years to reign. From birth his mind and heart had been thoroughly trained to believe that God had anointed him to be France’s absolute ruler. His Huguenot subjects, the French Protestants who refused to submit to his Roman Catholic beliefs and practices, offended him. They stood outside of his thought-world. They stood against the beliefs that he cherished as true. Ultimately, he sensed that they stood outside of his control. The Huguenots offended the abysmal totalitarian…
The Church should have the freedom to refuse allegiance to the State on the issue of Gay Marriage.
If Australia’s Prime Minister is serious about fairness, he’ll preserve the right to a conscientious objection to SSM; the right for people to hold the view, and teach their kids that marriage is between a man and a woman; and that those children have a right to equal access to their biological father and mother. As I have hopefully made clear in the written contributions I’ve made to this national debate, I see the issues as a matter of social justice. The “no” vote has been about defending truth, liberty, fraternity, science, and even equality, from unbalanced ideological servitude. The State wants…
The confessing church is a church of martyrs.
The word martyr [μάρτυς] means to ‘bear witness’, this is derived from the word marturion [μαρτύριον] which is understood to mean evidence testimony; witness; to be testified. The word martyr is also connected to martyromai [μαρτύρομαι] ‘I am urging; I am bearing witness; I am declaring; I am insisting.’ Along with a lot of His colleagues, family and friends – of whom one was Karl Barth and the other Martin Niemöller, Bonhoeffer fits the profile of declaring; bearing witness; insisting. He was a martyr. Today, fascist theory might only exist in fringe elements of society, but the style of political activism employed by the Nazi’s isn’t. Rhetoric and labels offer…
The church of Beyoncé — no, really…
Reality killed satirical news, and this is proof: Beyoncé Mass is a thing, and it attracted a crowd of more than 900 worshipers last month. Rev Jude Harmon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco gave the service, highlighting Beyoncé’s music and how it relates to the spiritual experiences of black women. Rev Harmon explains: “Honestly, I think Beyoncé is a better theologian than many of the pastors and priest in our church today. That is not an exaggeration… “Jesus chose Mary of Nazareth, a woman of colour, and another woman of colour, Mary of Magdala to be the prophet of…
Court Invalidates Alberta Public Health Orders, Drops Charges Against Pastors
Pastor imprisoned for keeping his church open during the 2021 lockdowns has charges dropped.
Final Thoughts: Christianity and Some Election Reflections
“America began with the clear intention of being a ‘light on the hill.’ It would be wonderful if it could reclaim that mantle.”
When So-Called Christians Turn On the Faithful
“With a handful of exceptions, the Australian Church is starved of real leadership.”
The Myth of the Unconditional Covenant
“The land was never a conditional blood and flesh promise for the physical descendants of Abraham, it was always a conditional promise contingent on faith evidenced in living as God told his people to live. Which is why disobedience and lack of faith led to exile.”
A Christian Response to the Fall of Steve Lawson
“There, but for the grace of God go I.”
Do All Roads Lead to God?
“Pope Francis, once again, has landed himself in hot water by stating that there are many roads to God – not just Christianity.”
What Do Theonomists Actually Believe?
“The basic function of law is to restrain, not to regenerate, and when the function of law is changed from the restraint of evil to the regeneration and reformation of man and society, then law itself begins to break down, because an impossible burden is being placed upon it.”
What Has Christianity Ever Done for the World?
“From the values that shape our personal moral frameworks to the institutions that support education, healthcare, and human rights, many of the things we take for granted today owe their existence to Christianity.”
Where Does The Modern Self-Love Obsession Come From?
“Modern psychology has retrained many preachers to think like life coaches and NRL coaches, not preachers and pastors.”
Paris Sacrilege – Yes, It Was Deliberate
“The world does not hate Dionysus or any of the other deities, but the one living God alone.”
The RNC: Final Reflections and Highlights
“If you pull back and look at this thing, strength versus weakness, a bullet couldn’t stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden.”
The Reformed Evangelical Divide, Clash of Worldviews, and Tim’s Open Letter to Shai
“The most positive thing to come out of these debates is the increased unity seen between Presbyterians and Baptists over their shared hatred of wokeism’s destructive ideologies.”
Prayer Before Politics: Franklin Graham vs. The Marxist Cancellation Cult
“Prayer is a revolt against the disorder of the world.”
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