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The Ginger Factory – June 2021
The Ginger Factory JUNE 2021 SCHOOLS OF PROPAGANDA In recent years there has been a significant growth in concern about the direction School education in Australia is taking and the effect on our children. Not only are levels of competence in reading, writing and numeracy declining, and discipline problems increasing, but more and more left-wing […]
An Anxious World – What Next?
THE GINGER FACTORY (GINGER: a hot spicy root used in cooking and medicine; mettle, spirit, stimulation) A regular column to promote BIBLICAL thinking on current issues of concern to Christians MAY 2021 The sensationalist reporting of the Covid 19 Pandemic has bred a degree of anxiety, especially in older people, which has left […]
Young in Heart – Reminiscing
Memories – Recognise Anyone? What’s Your Age? What age is too old to be young at heart? Well, I guess “young at heart” has no age limits because you can’t see inside to test it out. I imagine that the meter to test the youngness would be the “Joy Scale” of just wanting […]
What Were Early Christians Like?
The Epistle to Diognetes, c. AD 130 Here is a gem we are most fortunate to have as only one copy survived the centuries. We do not know who wrote it. It came from the second century. It was, as the New Testament, originally written in Greek. In this brief excerpt, we have preserved a […]
Why Pray if God’s already decided?
Prayer and Predestination A Conversation Between Prayerful and Prayerless (by John Piper) Prayerless: I understand that you believe in the providence of God. Is that right? Prayerful: Yes. Prayerless: Does that mean you believe, like the Heidelberg Catechism says, that nothing comes about by chance but only by God’s design and plan? Prayerful: Yes, […]
My Heart – Christ’s Home
…If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:23 NIV) My Heart Christ’s Home One evening I invited Jesus Christ into my heart. What an entrance He made! It was not a spectacular, emotional thing, but […]
Four Reasons why Biblical Doctrine Matters
Love wants to know more Firstly, if you love someone, you want to know everything about them. If a young man meets a girl and falls in love, he’ll want to find out all sorts of things about her – what sort of family she’s from, which school she went to, what her hobbies are, […]
Frustrations of a Missionary (Part 2)
Are you a Missionary? Someone defined a missionary as a “person called, prepared and guided by God, to be what God made him to be in a cross-cultural context.” Obviously the key is the “cross-cultural context” otherwise we’d all be missionaries and the word would just mean a “Christian.” Of course we know that all […]
