Theology

Unfortunately, some Christians have come to believe that the Jehovah’s Witnesses is simply another Christian denomination—a denomination adhering to the basic doctrines of the Christian Faith, [...]

The case against abortion rests on two premises: (1) the sanctity of human life and (2) the humanity of the foetus. From the Scriptures, the first premise is easily validated. The sanctity of [...]

Andrew Lansdown interviews Augusto Zimmermann, Professor and Head of Law, Sheridan Institute of Higher Education. Augusto, what is your background? I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and had [...]

In an article titled “Journeying into injustice: the National Redress Scheme and the Christian churches” (published in Life News in December 2018 and in Quadrant in June 2019), I exposed the [...]

Life Ministries is founded on the assumption that the Bible is the very Word of God, and as such is entirely trustworthy and true. All of the social, moral, theological and pastoral positions we [...]

Andrew Lansdown and I have been colleagues at Life Ministries for over 30 years.  But, more than that, we have been friends.  There are few people that I am closer to than Andrew, and I suspect [...]

by Andrew Lansdown   Christians believe in the Trinity. We believe that there is one God who exists eternally as three Persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three Persons are distinct [...]

In an essay published in the last issue of Life News I argued that there is “One good thing about hell”—namely, that no one has to go there. Anyone and everyone who turns in repentance and faith [...]

I spoke just now of fiddling while Rome burns. But to a Christian the true tragedy of Nero must be not that he fiddled while the city was on fire but that he fiddled on the brink of hell. You [...]

Hell is a subject that Christians do not like to talk about. However, there is a lot of plain-speaking about hell in the Bible, and so it seems to me that occasionally there should be a bit of [...]