Recycling plastic is bad stewardship (7 min)

Recycling paper and cans can make sense. Despite what we’ve been told, recycling plastic most often doesn’t.

How long have you been battling sin?

Tim Challies on how “In some way each of us carries a heavy load through this life. In some way each of us finds it a long marathon more than a brief sprint. In some way each of us is called to endure with fortitude, even for a very long time.”

1984, China, and Sydney WorldPride 2023

As George Orwell wrote, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four” – it is the freedom to say what really is, including that men can’t become women, and homosexuality is a sin. Declare that anywhere around Sydney this upcoming week, and you will not be tolerated or celebrated for your diverse thinking – you will be instead a candidate for the “two minute hate.”

Trans “medicine” is based on bad science

A new study is debunking the “Dutch Protocol” research that was being used to promote and legitimize “trans” treatments. Creationist Christians were always aware that ideologically-driven bias exists in “Science” but now the trans agenda is making that increasingly plain to everyone else too.

A biblical identity for adoptees

Adopted children can struggle with their sense of identity. How can we help them to cultivate a biblical identity?

Coherence – amazing evidence of our design (1 min)

If you’ve ever had to replace a missing screw from this or that gizmo in your house, you already know the importance of coherence – it isn’t enough to have a screw; you need to have the exact right screw that the gizmo has been designed to work with. The coherence in our bodies – eyes that precisely fit eyeball sockets, wrist bones that each, individually fit alongside the other wrist bones, muscles that attach at just the right points, arteries that carry blood to exactly where it is needed, etc. and etc. – is clear evidence of our own brilliant design.