Reading to young children is the best gift you can give them. It improves their maths as well as literacy, language and problem solving according to a major new Australian Catholic University study.
Reading to young children is the best gift you can give them. It improves their maths as well as literacy, language and problem solving according to a major new Australian Catholic University study.
The book that’s helping young people consider the culture they live in, and how it’s subtley, but surely, shaping their attitudes and beliefs.
Start your day right by spending time with God in his Word along with John North of Ambassadors for Christ.
Start your day right by spending time with God in his Word along with John North of Ambassadors for Christ.
Read Acts 17:22-23 22 So Paul, standing before the council, addressed them as follows: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way, 23 for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To an Unknown God.’ This God,… Continue reading Our faith and others’ faiths
Sandra McCraken is a Nashville folk singer and songwriter who has written a number of Christian songs. One of them is called “Age After Age”. And in her song she tells the story of two young boys in Missouri who spent their summer playing by some sandbag levees that had held back some of the… Continue reading Making Sacrifices
To be afflicted by hope seems a contradictory term. How could hope, so full of promise, joy and anticipation be an affliction? Being afflicted by hope is a term Baptist Minister, theologian, author and social commentator, Reverend Michael Frost used recently on his blog. He describes this malady as something that can particularly strike men in their sixties. On Open House, Michael Frost discussed the issue with Stephen O’Doherty.
Laura reviews the true story of a couple smashed by a massive hurricane in the shipwreck survival story ‘Adrift’.
The federal government is moving closer to getting a Modern Slavery Act. A welcome move as that is. the Australian Law Council is concerned that there are key provisions missing in the draft laws. President of the Law Council explained the shortcomings to Stephen O’Doherty on Open House.
A group of Christians in Scotland was being chased by their persecutors until finally they were exhausted. As they reached a small hill separating them from their enemies their leader Old Saunders said, “Let us pray here, for if the Lord does not hear our prayer we are all dead men.” Old Saunders prayed, “Spin… Continue reading Miracle of Prayer
Read 1 Peter 4:9 9 Be hospitable to each other without secretly wishing you hadn’t got to be! (JBP)
We love the relaxation and excitement of travelling the world. But in our rush to see the world, it could be that we forget the impact, for good or ill, on our spiritual life. Do we make packing our Bible as important as taking enough socks? ‘Travelling the World as Citizens of Heaven’ a new book by Reverend Stephen Liggins examines many of those questions.
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