Food For Thought

 

Will the Australian Government Re-define Marriage?

Read Full Article Filed on 11 January 2011

Is this disturbing? It should be. This issue is a watershed in Australian political history. If the truth about marriage is crucified at the highest level of Australian government there will be no getting it back. You may argue there is no point in fighting it, that this is part of the inevitable decline preparatory to God’s judgment but should we not preach and teach truth to our children? Should we not attempt to speak truth to our MPs before the February deadline?

A Christmas present recommendation

Read Full Article Filed on 10 December 2010

A Christmas present recommendation The other day I saw and immediately bought the newly published Bonhoeffer – Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxos who also wrote Amazing Grace the story of William Wilberforce. In my eagerness to have a 5 minute squiz I thumbed over to the chapter on “The Church and the Jewish […]

Reflections on the Victorian Election

Read Full Article Filed on 10 December 2010

The issue of battle fatigue is real. Our politicians and we, the Australian public, will be facing this again with euthanasia and physician assisted suicide – and also the re-definition of and abandonment of marriage and family as the bedrock of society.

One More Thing – The Victorian Pathway to a New Dark Age

Read Full Article Filed on 25 November 2010

how dare we repeat history by excluding any rights of the unborn child at risk of abortion. To thumb our noses at the intelligent dedication of the people and nations that formulated the Universal Declaration is an astonishing action of ignorance and irresponsibility and – yes – selfish arrogance.

A New Dark Age

Read Full Article Filed on 18 November 2010

We are entering a new dark age. Can we remain silent? What is it that we don’t get? If those of us who understand such things remain silent before this election in Victoria what charge will be laid against us because we have failed to be watchmen?

The Defining Issue of the Victorian Election

Read Full Article Filed on 17 November 2010

Each Victorian has a choice between good and evil this election. Will you vote for a candidate who will do nothing to reverse this compulsion or will you vote for a candidate who will support the removal of Section 8? Surely, a clear choice – unless you choose, exercising your conscientious objection, not to vote at all

Where was the Christian Vote in the Federal Election?

Read Full Article Filed on 16 September 2010

So how do you define a “defining issue”?

Defining issues are wrongs actually brought into being by government introduced legislation as opposed to matters occurring or happening in our world. With respect to things that are happening we may argue about contributory negligence and about what might be required in legislation to rectify that and also to prevent it. But what we cannot argue about is when governments actually legislate to permit wrong. What we cannot argue about is when governments legislate to permit evil. And especially what we cannot argue about is when governments legislate to compel evil.

The voice of the church in the public square: is there such a thing as a Christian vote?

Read Full Article Filed on 16 September 2010

Statement: In Victoria we have unrestricted late-term abortion, unrestricted eugenic selection of anything regarded as imperfect through to birth, and legal compulsion of doctors to act against their conscience and their
professional judgment – all this significantly due to the influence of Emily’s List of which our PM Julia Gillard is a founder.

Question: If it is absolutely clear that a political party leader is deliberately leading the country in an un-ethical and anti-God direction, can we trust that leader or that party in other non-God areas?

A challenge to Pastors and Leaders – will we guide our people this election?

Read Full Article Filed on 03 August 2010

unrestricted late-term abortion, unrestricted eugenics, legal compulsion of doctors to act against their conscience – significantly due to the influence of Emily’s List of which Prime Minister Julia Gillard is a founder.
If it is absolutely clear that a political party leader is deliberately leading the country in an anti-God direction, can we trust that leader or that party in other non-God areas?

Our PM: “pro-choice”, not pro-abortion. A founder of Emily’s List.

Read Full Article Filed on 28 July 2010

Our PM: “pro-choice”, not pro-abortion. A founder of Emily’s List.

PM Julia Gillard has declared herself, in response to the accusation that she is pro-abortion, to be “pro-choice”. But what does that mean? Is it not really – for the majority of pro-choice activists – pro-abortion?