Category: Highlands Post (Outreach Media)

Hi, my name is Elise, and I am an affirmation addict.” Elise is 16 years old and one of 1.44 billion people who regularly post message on the internet using Facebook. Elise explains the symptoms of her disease: “We crave affirmations from our peers in the form of ‘likes’, ‘favourites’, ‘shares’, ‘re-tweets’, ‘re-blogs, and ‘re-vines’.”…

There’s a Facebook video of a dog eating a bone. The problem is the dog’s left paw. It keeps creeping up to the dog’s head where it’s eating the bone. So, naturally the dog growls and snarls at the paw to warn it off. And occasionally, because the paw won’t listen, the dog attacks and…

Anzac day shouldn’t be the most significant day in the Australian calendar. And that’s not because only eight thousand Australians died at Gallipoli in 1915 compared to the fifty thousand who lost their lives in other campaigns in the First World War. No, the issue isn’t about a misplaced focus on Gallipoli at the expense…

Jesus made both a promise and a prediction in his earthly ministry… the church he was building would never fail. ‘The gates of Hades’ Jesus said, ‘would never prevail’ over the church (Matthew 16:18). In other words, Hades (the place of the dead) would never swallow up Christians forever. Rather, as the years continued, they…

Those crazy Finlanders! If hubby is strong and wifey weighs more than 49kg they can enter as a team in the ‘Wife-Carrying World Championships’. The rules are simple: carry your wife along a 253 metre obstacle course traversing land and water. The first couple to the finish line (hopefully with marriage intact) is crowned winner….

God Invented It Isaac Newton discovered gravity! Okay. So ‘discovered’ may not be the perfect word. Whoever dropped the first hammer (or rock!) on their toe probably gets that honour. But any person living on Planet Earth knows that objects fall to the ground. And ‘discovering’ gravity can be a painful lesson that’s best learnt…

Does your non-white Christmas feel a bit B grade? Do prawns for Christmas lunch feel more like a cultural experiment than real tradition? It may be that centuries of European fairy tales or the middle class American dream are undercutting your confidence in the goodness of a hot, sweaty December. Well… push those feelings away…

It’s hard to get too worked up about the fate of an ISIS soldier. He’s a bloodthirsty killer and a fanatic with whom you can’t reason. Most of the world has quietly agreed it’s best to hunt him down and have him killed efficiently. And just how cruel and dangerous ISIS is can be seen…

WHY I BELIEVE- Laureate Professor Graeme Clark AC, FAA, FRS, Hon FRCS At the Cavendish Physics Laboratory at Cambridge University are the words from the Bible “Great are the works of the Lord, they are pondered by all who delight in them” (Psalm 111:2). I have been committed to science for a number of decades…

If there were any question you could ask God, what would it be? Would you ask about pain and suffering or why sometimes Christians do such a bad job of living up to Jesus’ teachings? Perhaps you’d like to know who God is and how you can know Him or why He made the world…