Signs of the Times

August 2002

Safari Goes Home

After 10 months and 14 operations, just before Christmas 2001, Safari Kimanzi went home. After a 20-hour plane ride and a 256-kilometre drive in an ADRA–Kenya 4WD, Australia’s little African battler was driven into Kasaala, his village located in south-east Kenya.

My Escape From the World Trade Center

I was sitting in the National Association of Business Economists Conference at 8.51 am on September 11, 2001, on the ground floor of the World Trade Center Marriott Hotel.

Eat to Live

The epidemic of degenerative diseases that plague people in Western countries is caused by a diet lacking in protective plant foods. In other words, it’s not so much what we eat at the moment, but what we’re not eating that’s important to our health.

The New Spirituality

In recent decades in the West, despite a general shift toward rationalism and secularism, there’s been a parallel increase in interest in Eastern religions, witchcraft and satanism, the occult and spiritism, and New Age activities and beliefs. This is not surprising, as it turns out.

One Year On since September 11

In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, world leaders made grave predictions for our society’s future, threatening economic upheaval and a long war against terror.

A Life Well Lived

How would you answer if asked, “Do you think you’ll go to heaven?” “If I’m good enough,” many answer. But most say, “I don’t care.” Then they may add something like, “I don’t want to be some religious square, a goody-goody who doesn’t do this and can’t do that—I want to enjoy life!”

How We Coped With Alzheimer’s

About two years ago my mother-in-law came to live with my wife and I and our two children. She’d become unable to live by herself and she will, without doubt, one day become unable to live even with us. She has advancing Alzheimer’s disease.

My Greatest Joy

Let me share with you a few cameos of baptism that have stuck in my mind over the years of my ministry.

Kerri’s New Life

I didn’t have any self-confidence and was pretty mixed up. At age 18 I married, and by the age of 24 I had four children. There was no peace in our home, nor much real happiness or laughter.

God’s Unfinished Work

When we look around us and within us at the problems, the pain and the confusion, it can almost be a reflex action to blame God—or at least start questioning His goodness or His power or both. The problem with assessing God on these observations is that He is not finished yet.

From God to Me

Some talk back to their television screens as though it were a person who could receive their responses. This one-sided communication could be considered either pathetic or humourous, depending on your viewpoint. Others talk to God, seemingly a one-sided conversation as well. But is it?

Did You Say Something?

Have you ever been lending an ear to a friend— nodding your head with interest and maintaining sincere eye contact—and realised that you were, in fact, not listening? It’s as if your brain takes a 20-second holiday to the Gold Coast and makes it back to the office just in time to hear the other person say, “. . . so be sure to avoid eating any of that until they trace the killer bacteria.”