The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill – Victoria
The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill has now passed through both houses of the Victorian parliament. It forbids any attempt to change or suppress, or induce any person to change or suppress, his or her sexual orientation or …
First Corinthians deals with divisions (1 Cor.1-4), morality, especially sexual morality (1 Cor.5-7), asserting one’s rights (1 Cor.8-10), the role of women, together with the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor.11), the use of gifts (1 Cor.12-14), and the resurrection body (1 Cor.15). Martyn Lloyd-Jones once commented that First Corinthians was …
One of the surest indications of our own corruption is the universal experience that if someone ventures to praise us, we tend to heartily agree, but if someone criticises us, we tend to be deeply offended. Another obvious truth today is that the world, especially the world of social media, …
Psalm 80 is attributed to Asaph, not David, and Derek Kidner dates it about the time of the Assyrian threat. The tone is set in the first two verses – Ps 80:1-2. This is both a prayer and a song (see the superscription). God is addressed as the Shepherd …
Nahum is looking ahead to the fall of Nineveh in August 612 B.C. S. D. Snyman: ‘For many people living in well-established and stable democracies, a situation of severe oppression by a foreign ruler is hard to imagine.’ But it not about democracy; it is about godliness.
Very intense and very comforting. It is a prayer and a song. Calvin says the context belongs to the time when Saul was trying to kill David, while James Montgomery Boice dates it to Absalom’s rebellion. It is also a shadow of what would come with the Son of …
In 1787 a medallion was designed by Josiah Wedgwood which showed a kneeling slave in chains, and the motto: ‘Am I not a man and a brother?’ Cain had asked: ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ (Gen.4:9), implying the answer was ‘No’, but of course the answer is ‘Yes’.
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In Paul’s warning against ungodliness in the last days, between the two comings of Christ, he heads the list with those who will be ‘lovers of self’ (2 Tim.3:2). Recently it has become possible to plumb the depths of what exactly that might mean. On 1 December 2020 an actress …
Xenophon later led a retreat of Greeks over the site of Nineveh, and he hardly suspected that it had ever been inhabited.
