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  <div class="message"><p>Everyone has preferences, tastes, leanings and even biases of various kinds and the reasons for that are many indeed. Everything from belief systems right down to the most trivial experience. These are elements that contribute to ‘culture’, both individual and collective.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Cancel Culture happens when many of these more consequential elements of these subjective spheres are believed to be considerably more than just the ‘F’ words of culture – fad, flavour, fashion or formula.&nbsp; When we become entrenched as…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6899014/cancel-culture-and-christianity-where-do-you-fit">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><strong>The Marburg Colloquy - The First Council of 'Protestants'&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><em>Reformation Not Protestation - a Touch Stone&nbsp;</em></p>
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<p>What tips a Reformer - a necessary vehicle of proactive change to bring back into 'shape' the purity of a lost truth - into a 'Protestant'?&nbsp;</p>
<p>The DNA of the reforming church has been tarred, and not unfairly, with a pejorative brush, that of 'Protestant'.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If reformation is the goal and the touch stone of this necessary reshaping is the Head of the Church - Jesus Christ, then one must believe if we…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6791897/reformation-day-2021-recalling-reform-not-promoting-protest">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><em>“Happy are they who give themselves to God! They are delivered from their passions, from the judgements of other, from their malice, form the tyranny of their sayings, from their cold and wretched mocking, from the misfortunes which the world distributes to wealth, from the unfaithfulness and inconstancy of friends, from the wiles of snares of the enemy, from our own weakness, from the misfortunes and brevity of life, from the horrors of a profane death, from cruel remorse attached to wicked pleasures, and</em>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6743501/surrender-a-christ-ian-model">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <a href="/about-us/blog/6730024/the-new-totalitarian-creep-and-no-we-are-not-referring-to">The New Totalitarian ‘Creep’ – &quot;And No, We Are Not Referring to…&quot;</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p><strong>The New Totalitarian ‘Creep’ – And No, We Are Not Referring to…&nbsp;</strong></p><p>(The following is direct excerpts from the Book <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399" target="_blank"><strong>“Live Not By Lies”</strong></a>)&nbsp;</p><p>“What is happening here? A progressive – and profoundly anti-Christian militancy – is steadily overtaking society; one described by Pope Benedict XVI as a “worldwide dictatorship of seemingly humanistic ideologies” that pushes dissenters to society’s margins. Benedict called this a manifestation of “the spiritual power of the Antichrist. This spiritual power takes material form…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6730024/the-new-totalitarian-creep-and-no-we-are-not-referring-to">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Isn’t the obvious answer to that question; how it Loves and cares for its people? &nbsp;‘Love’ is the single greatest virtue because it is the panacea to all global ills, ask anyone? Well, at least my sensate ubiquitous version of that state is anyway.&nbsp;</p><p>So, once we all agree on this point, now it is just a small step of getting everyone to take that prescribed medicine; easy, yeh?&nbsp;</p><p>Even Jesus Christ gave us a New Commandment, one that transcended even the Golden Rule… “To love one another as He loved us.” (John…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6710179/what-makes-a-nation-stand-up-and-out">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Three of the most remarkable musically contextualized Hymns of the 'Methodist' Reformation era. Simple, profound and moving, even to this day - Salvation in Song!</p>
<p><strong>Oh For a Thousand Tongues to Sing&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing&nbsp;<br>My great Redeemer’s praise,&nbsp;<br>The glories of my God and king,&nbsp;<br>The triumphs of His grace!&nbsp;</p>
<p><br>My gracious Master and my God,&nbsp;<br>Assist me to proclaim,&nbsp;<br>To spread through all the earth abroad,&nbsp;<br>The honors of Thy name.&nbsp;</p>
<p><br>Jesus! the name that charms our fears,&nbsp;<br>That bids our sorrows cease—&nbsp;…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6694897/trilogy-on-soteriology-in-worship-charles-wesley">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><em>An utterly prophetic declaration on the Wests cultural dalliance with toxic ideologies and where they will lead....Delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University (Excerpt)&nbsp;</em></p>
<p>A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6671908/alexandr-solzhenitsyn-a-world-split-apart">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p><em><strong>A familiar example is Abraham’s trial when he was ordered to sacrifice Isaac. At this moment I am concerned with the obvious question, ‘If God is omniscient he must have known what Abraham would do, without any experiment, why, then, this needless torture?’ But as St Augustine points out, whatever God knows, Abraham at any rate did not know that his obedience could endure such a command until the event taught him; and the obedience which he did not know that he would choose, he cannot be</strong></em>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/4016240/sent-to-try-us">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><em>The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here, and a branch there. I want to have the whole tree down. I don’t want to drill the tooth, or crown it, or stop it, but to have it out. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think</em>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6558076/cancel-culture-christ-style">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>When they came for the <em>Alt-right mouth breather</em> I did nothing but smile gleefully as such sub-humans do not deserve to even breath the same air as the rest of us.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When they came for the <em>Fundamentalist naïve realist</em> Christ followers, I did nothing, as they really are socially unpalatable and culturally inept to a cringe-worthy degree.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When they came for the <em>Conservatives</em>, I did nothing, because they are irrelevant and in the way of progress.&nbsp;</p>
<p>When they came for the <em>Pentecostals</em>, I did nothing, as their…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/about-us/blog/6448684/when-they-came-for">Read more</a></span></div>
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