October, 2018 - Australian Church Record

Destroy and kill: the command for Israel and for us

October 8, 2018October 7, 2018 by Andrew Barry

“When the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction… You shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with…

Marriage: its place and pattern (Ephesians 5:31)

October 3, 2018October 2, 2018 by Alan Stibbs

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh” (Ephesians 5:31, R.V.) (See also Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:45; Mark 10:7-8.)These words refer, of course, to the action of…

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The goodness of Christian hope

October 1, 2018September 30, 2018 by Kirsten McKinlay

Do your friends know the goodness of the Christian hope? Do you?Recently I was talking to one of my most biblically informed non-Christian friends about life, the world, human nature and God, when she told me “I don’t want eternal life”. I was…