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What did Jesus mean when he said, "Upon this rock I will build my Ekklesia?" This came up in Matthew 16 verse 18 when Jesus was s...

I've been enjoying reading some posts on Jim Wright's blog recently. One post that really blessed me was "Finding Ekklesia...

I remember some years back some people visited the city we were living in at the time, which was Novosibirsk. They were traveling from chur...

The structure of the Australian Football League fixture has been a mess for years now. Many of the clubs complain that the fixture needs to...

I made the decision to stop going to church in July 2011. It was a decision that was a long time coming. I have long known about the priest...

The simple answer to this question is: when one country exerts its will over another country and extends its borders or kingdom. The ve...

Individualism is a pervasive world view that now exists in the west. It affects how everything is played out, especially attitudes towards ...

What is a nation? This is an anthropological question as well as a political one. Every society has building blocks. In many places aro...

This idea that "the nations" are important to God is not some fleeting idea in the Bible. It laces every story, every context,...

This is the first post in a series on the topics of Empire, Kingdom of God and Nations. I would like to have a look at each of these top...