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God …and storms, earthquakes, Gen Z, and ‘hate speech’ law
Dr Stuart Lange offers insights and highlights some prayer needs on recent events in both NZ and overseas.
Lest we forget: it’s a Covenant!
Many Māori see the Treaty in spiritual and Christian terms as is seen in one of their names for the Treaty: ‘Te Kawenata o Waitangi’ (‘the Covenant of Waitangi’). Covenant is a very appropriate word to use. The word itself is of Latin origin (con venire), meaning a coming together.
The Spirit of Waitangi
What is the “spirit” of the Treaty of Waitangi? Often discussion of this question is focussed exclusively on the text of the Treaty itself. But it is also helpful to consider the wider ceremonial context in which the Treaty was first enacted.
Praying for New Zealand, as 2023 gains momentum
Dr Stuart Lange lays out some key prayer points at the start of the year for Aotearoa New Zealand
Christmas and Christians, Congress, summer closedown
As Christians, we need to work hard to keep Christ central to Christmas. Our modern secularised society primarily sees Christmas as a special festive family get-together, with lots of food and drink, and as the start of the summer holiday season. Such a cultural tradition has its place, for sure, despite the pressures of getting everything ready.
What will it be like having 200+ New Zealand Christian leaders gathering together in the same room?
We believe it will be stimulating, inspiring, challenging, thought-provoking, instructive, encouraging, Gospel-minded, and biblically grounded!
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.
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.