FAQ on Same-Sex Attraction, Temptation, Desire, and Sin
“Despite our many advances in sanctification, there will always be an enormous abyss between our holiness now and our holiness in glory. However, death is not the alpha point of transformative holiness in Christ.”
Miracles, People Power, and Freedom: These Two Stories Will Inspire Us All
“The heavy-handed lockdowns, health fascism and two-tiered societies we see everywhere in the West are just so similar to what has happened before.”
They Spent Years Telling Us Peer Pressure Is Wrong, Now It’s Their Weapon of Choice
“Instead of accepting that there is a perfectly rational explanation for refusing a rushed vaccine with the worst safety record in modern history for a virus that presents next-to-no risk for most people – prime ministers, presidents and premiers have insisted that defiance is a selfish act that demands constant social pressure.”
Mark Driscoll, Ravi Zacharias, and COVID-19: The Failure of Evangelical Leadership
“May I suggest that those Christian leaders who, so far, have been silent in the face of coercion and/or violation of basic bodily autonomy by the state when it comes to COVID measures would probably not be that one courageous person.”
False Gospel Gaslighting: How Manipulation Is Dividing the Church
“It isn’t unusual today to hear progressive Christians calling conservative Christians ‘extreme’ or ‘crazy’, and this is especially true when politicians get involved in the church.”
Politicians, Pastors, and Bureaucrats: Whose Mouth Is the Devil Using Right Now?
“Make no mistake, the Devil is very busy indeed. In a time of turmoil and trial, he is busy pointing people in many directions, as long as they don’t go in the one direction that can provide true and lasting relief, namely, the direction of Jesus Christ.”
Limited Government and Lawful Resistance in the Christian Tradition
Trusting too much in government is un-Christian and it always results in oppression and tyranny.
I Trust the Science, but Not the Political Agenda Being Injected Into the Pharmaceutical Industry
“When coercion and tyranny are some of the tools being used in the process, the impression many people have is that the pharmaceutical industry is not really in it to help people but to get filthy rich, primarily, treating people’s welfare as a secondary trivial matter.”
New Study Reveals COVID Lockdowns Will Cost More Lives Than They Save
The study found that lockdowns have only marginally reduced COVID-19 deaths, but come with enormous long-term costs that far outweigh their benefits.
Why I’m Still a Religious Conscientious Objector to the Vaccine
“Is the fact that ethical vaccines for COVID are not being developed rather heavily predicated on the fact that we cooperated with the system over the last few decades in using morally objectionable common childhood vaccines where we could have demanded ethical alternatives that already existed?”
Christian Leaders, Fight for the Conscience of Your People: Vaccine Mandates and Letters of Exemption
“Will the Confessing Church ever learn that majority decision in matters of conscience kills the spirit?” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Why Are Christian Leaders Undermining Conscience and Human Rights?
We must strongly oppose the campaign being waged by some evangelical intellectuals to de-legitimise the concerns and emotions that lie behind Covid vaccine hesitancy and thereby void the church’s responsibility to speak up about significant human rights violations.
Separation of Church and State… Except When It’s Convenient for the State to Interfere
“Unfortunately for Christians in Australia, we don’t have clear constitutional provisions to point at when the state and territory government gets uncomfortably involved in religious affairs. It seems that while Section 116 of our constitution protects us from the Federal government messing with religion, the States and Territories get free reign.”
An Important Update from the Authors of the Ezekiel Declaration
“We did not expect to get this much traction with our letter, but we praise God that he has used three ‘poorly trained and uneducated ministers’ (to quote our critics) to draw attention to a very serious issue, and we believe, a very serious threat to the unity of the Church.”
Vaccine Passports for Worship Place Members Under Church Discipline for Illegitimate Reasons
“In the end, to ban healthy believers from public worship for any reason other than unrepentant sin, including those based on whatever arbitrary medical treatments the government deems necessary at any particular time of the day, is to ultimately exchange the gracious staff of the Great Shepherd for the often cruel and unforgiving rod of Caesar.”
Ten Reasons Why Online Church is Not Real Church
Now is the time to insist that churches be re-opened. For everyone: vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Five Reasons the Church Should Oppose A Vaccine Passport System
“The church would be appalled at any sort of racial/ethnic prejudice or segregation, but now in some quarters, segregation that Christ has not established, is being lauded as a solution for a return to normalcy. If there is no Jew nor Greek in the church, why should the vaccinated and unvaccinated be segregated?”
Rethinking Obedience to Government in the Coronavirus Era
“Before thinking through how and when we should submit to governing rulers, we must first take a step back to an even more fundamental question: What is the proper role and scope of government in this world?”
Christensen: Selfish Freedom Or Righteous Safety?
“The framing of this conflict in such terms neglects the fact that people who are fighting for a restoration of freedom aren’t just doing it for themselves but are doing it for all of society, including those who want to remain locked down.”
We Protect Rights Because Rights Protect People
In fact, to mischaracterize those who prioritize certain freedom over potential safety as “unloving” and selfish, when that is clearly not by necessity the case, is itself, ironically, a violation of what it means to “love your neighbour as yourself.”