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We Can’t Feast if We Don’t Fast
Lent is traditionally a time of fasting. There are many spiritual benefits to fasting. It reminds us of our frailty and our need of God. It puts us in a position to remember that we do not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Last year for the first time I observed a Lenten fast, and I learned that fasting also has a strong relationship with feasting, and that feasting is not the same as gluttony. After 40 days of simple eating, a single Easter egg on Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection actually meant something more than my taste buds being tantalised. I then did not feel the need to eat more, because the real joy was the knowledge of Jesus’ resurrection and defeat of sin and Satan, not the endorphin rush from the chocolate. Read More....

Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus! I am requesting an urgent 'CALL TO PRAY' on SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY,2012, this has been declared Australia's NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER & FASTING , we are invited to pray for Australia to turn back to God, and purposefully pray for the Renewal & Transformation of Australia as a nation with Jesus Christ as Lord. Read More....

In the Australia Southern Territory of the Salvation Army, the beginning of the year is the time for field changes. Many officers are now settling into new corps and getting to know their new congregations. There are a number of questions they will no doubt be asking, including how will I cope in this new communal context? What is this corps like? What are the touchy issues that divide people? What has taken place in the past? What gifts has God given to the members of this corps? What does their mission to the people in this area involve? Read More....

Noah’s Nakedness
There is an odd story in Genesis about Noah which occurred after he and his family left the ark. Apparently, Noah planted a vineyard, and started to make wine. One day, he drank some of the wine and became drunk. He went and lay in his tent naked. His son Ham saw that he was naked and went and told his brothers. His brothers took a garment, walked backwards into the tent and covered Noah up, in such a way as they did not see Noah naked. Noah later woke up and got cross with Ham and cursed him “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers” (Genesis 9:25),  and blessed his brothers “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant. May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant” (Genesis 9:26-27). Read More....

Unity is a Picture of the Trinitarian Life
The gospel of John records one of Jesus’ last prayers; a prayer he prayed not only for his disciples at that time, but also all who would later believe in him because of their testimony. He prayed that his believers “may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me” (John 17:21-23 ESV). Given the division in the church, this remains a prayer yet to be fully answered. Read More....