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Dr Stephen Chavura presents a stirring vision for Christians living in a “kairos” cultural moment: he argues that we must engage public life with conviction, live as salt and light, and uphold Scripture amid the erosion of creational order. He warns against pornography, social atomisation and institutional decline, and urges families and believers to lead a revival in Australia.
Dr Stephen Chavura argues that cultural Marxism and the therapeutic ideology have infiltrated society via the universities and mainstream culture, reshaping notions of sexuality, gender and family. He contends that public policy now prioritises feeling good and safety over truth and religious liberty, producing laws incompatible with a biblical anthropology and mounting threats to Christian freedom.
Joshua Rowe challenges common caricatures of lobbying, arguing it’s neither purely transactional nor ethically hollow. Drawing on academic research, he highlights three modes of influence — money, persuasion, and grassroots mobilisation — and offers a biblical model via Joseph in Egypt. He invites Christians to engage purposefully in advocacy and public life.
Rev Mark Powell outlines the crucial battlegrounds currently facing the church, arguing Australia’s foundational rites — birth, puberty, marriage and death — have been radically reshaped. He identifies four key fronts: the “woke” worldview, coercive conversion-therapy laws, the erosion of religious freedom, and growing state paternalism. Through the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, he reminds believers that Jesus stands with them in the fight to honour God rather than conform to culture.
Dr Stephen Chavura delivers a concise, engaging overview of Christianity’s transformative impact on human dignity, equality and the Western moral imagination. He explains how the Christian vision reshaped ancient assumptions, elevated the vulnerable, and forged core ideas still underpinning modern society. This talk invites viewers to reconsider the roots of their values and the civilisation they inhabit.
Ps Paul “PJ” Bedwell highlights the creeping compromise of too many churches who are placing higher value in the preaching and teaching on the “research” papers coming from corrupted academia than on God’s reliable and unchanging Word, and reiterates Christ’s command to disciple nations rather than be conformed this world’s cultures.
So said the serpent to Eve right back in the Garden of Eden, beginning a Culture War in which, since then, satan, society and sinful nature misrepresent the goodness and designs of God, and propose a counterfeit wisdom. Find eternal hope and answers in lifting your eyes from the confusion to Heaven.
Fathers (and father figures) play a unique role in the lives of children, their families, and society at large. But sadly many fathers don’t appreciate just how much they matter and how much their kids yearn for their time, attention, and affection. What happens to children without good father figures? And what happens to societies where men neglect being meaningfully involved in their children’s lives and prioritising them above work, career or hobbies? Join us in thinking through the valuable and essential roles fathers can play in serving their families, churches, and communities by showing up and putting the wellbeing of others before themselves.
There is a common confusion in the world and too many Christians about how the Gospel – the Good News – relates to and interacts with politics. Far from necessarily separate, Scripture clearly shows the societal decay and eventual destruction when people reject Christianity.
When the Apostle Paul had opportunity to preach to the ancient Greek culture and religion on Mars Hill, the Areopagus, he didn’t attempt political correctness or mixing religions. He preached the unadultered, Christian Gospel. If he was speaking to Australia today, what would that same preaching say?
Since ancient times every great civilisation has been destroyed by the ascendancy of first Baal (rejecting the One True God), Ishtar (sexualisation of culture) & Moloch (child sacrifice). Learn how an awake Church can apply understanding to how we raise and educate our children and overlay these ancient idolatries on our culture’s proud rebellion against Almighty God.
In an age where we have grown comfortable with relative freedom and the trustworthiness of governments since Federation, have too many of us started to confuse the ordained bounds of civil authorities with devotion normally reserved for God?