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An opportunity for the Spirit of God to move: the Franklin Graham God Loves You Tour (NZ)
A couple of weeks ago NZCN news reflected on the ongoing necessity of Christian believers sharing...
Proclaiming the good news of Christ, to quite a tough audience
Certainly, the Gospel of Jesus is magnificently good news. How in his great love the one true and...
Biblical faith or contemporary culture?
Biblical faith or contemporary culture? How can Christians respect their context, and speak well into their surrounding culture? How can they remain biblically faithful, rather than surrender to the assumptions and pressures of the culture they live in?
Reflections on royalty
Queen Elizabeth II was remarkable not only for the great length of her reign, but also for her particular mix of qualities such as steadiness, sound judgement, dignity, discretion, humility, caring, a deep commitment to serving, and a genuine, heart-felt Christian faith.
Christians, governments, and New Zealand politics
Ultimately, the road to a better New Zealand is not political, but spiritual. It is in renewed and flourishing Christian churches, and in a new wave of Christian faith across wider New Zealand society.
Questions for all New Zealand churches
New Zealand Christian Network suggests that the growing public scrutiny of churches raises important broader questions for all New Zealand churches – irrespective of their denomination, size, style, ethnicity or location.
Being constructively Christian, in a changing culture
In countries dominated by western culture, there continues to be admiration for compassion, and respect for honesty, integrity, and humility. But there is no doubt that recent cultural trends in western countries no longer give general support to Christian faith and to many other Christian values.
Praying for mental health, in our troubled New Zealand society
In our fallen, flawed humanity, no one is immune to mental health struggles. Underlying predispositions, rejection, loneliness, loss, life crises, fractured relationships, addictions, stress, anxiety, moral confusion, and the lessening of Christian faith or hope.
There is more than one side to the abortion issue
The decision of the USA’s Supreme Court to overturn Wade v Roe and the nationwide “constitutional right” to abortion has been met with dismay and outrage by many people, both in the USA and beyond.
Family First and charitable status
In a free society, the State should refrain from trying to restrain those groups whose views it finds unpalatable.
Matariki and Christian faith
Many Christians can agree that, in our bi-cultural nation, it is a respectful and appropriate move for our country to acknowledge the Māori New Year with a new public holiday.
Te Rongopai and Matariki
With the first ever National Matariki Public Holiday just around the corner we want to share a short digital narrative around Matariki and to share a unique Christian perspective on what Matariki is all about.
We strive to post articles that are either written by kiwis or are framed to our local and cultural context, and are faithful to biblical Christianity.