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Dwight Randall, the Director of Life Ministries, and his brothers, Leroy and Morris, both well-known pastors in evangelical circles in Perth, recently lost their mother, Gladys Vearl Randall. At [...]

Sehnsucht is a German word that means “deep longing”. It describes a fleeting state experienced by everyone from time to time—a profound yearning as real as it is intangible, a mysterious longing [...]

The Apostle John states in his first letter in the Bible that, on the first Christmas Day, Jesus Christ “appeared” among us. This is an unusual way of speaking about a person’s birth. Imagine a [...]

When I was a boy I used to catch bees in my handkerchief. Naturally, I was afraid to catch them in my bare hand because of their stings. With the cloth spread over my palm, I would creep up on a [...]

In contemporary culture truth decay is a massive problem. That idea that there is fixed, absolute truth which applies to us all is rejected by most people. In terms of what we can know, black and [...]

In the late 1940s, my family stayed for a year in a cabin at the Lake Region Christian Assembly in north-western Indiana in the United States. The LRCA was a large conference ground located along [...]

Five poems by Andrew Lansdown Troubled by the conviction that the children they have aborted are consciously suffering in a Buddhist purgatory, many Japanese women turn to the Buddhist deity, [...]

Do you ever think about heaven and how you will be received there? A song titled “This One’s With Me” by a Christian group called Newsong*encourages us to do just that. In the opening line the [...]

Does heaven exist? If it does, what it is like and how can we get there? Even among Christians, there seems to be uncertainty about the answers to these questions. And a general lack of biblical [...]

I have on occasions heard Christians tell non-Christians that in order to be saved they must be “born again”. This has always seemed to me to be a rather unhelpful thing to say to someone who [...]