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Reformed Thought for Christian Living
The Presbyterian Church of Australia’s Sex, Gender and Marriage Statement remains of the highest relevance to today’s Australia and deserves to be publicised in every PCA congregation. The five-page statement, […]
In the NSW Presbyterian Church at the moment there is a campaign which has been mounted to seek to get Presbyteries to reject the Assembly’s decision to have male only […]
Author: Nigel Biggar Publisher: Polity Year: 2026 Reviewer: Mark Powell Everything is ‘Woke’ How pervasive is Cultural Marxism as a coherent philosophy in Western society? What does it explain or […]
The lady was quite insistent on speaking to me. She wanted to tell me what was wrong with my sermon. “I was going along fine until you brought politics into […]
It’s strange to reflect that I haven’t been able to attend church in over 21 years, despite being a member of the body of Christ for almost as long as […]
The following is a lightly edited version of a speech delivered on 15th July 2026 at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New […]
We live in an increasingly litigious society. There is the obvious, though perhaps caricatured, example from the 1990s when a woman sued McDonald’s after being burned by the hot coffee […]
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the […]
One hears a number of recent stories of Protestants jumping ship to either Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. I don’t know the statistics, but I do hear anecdotally that this […]
2 Samuel 10:19 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So […]
Prophets play a very significant role in both Islam and Christianity. The claims of Islam are not mild in this regard. Modern Islam almost invariably asserts that there were […]
The Presbyterian Church of Australia’s Sex, Gender and Marriage Statement remains of the highest relevance to today’s Australia and deserves to be publicised in every PCA congregation. The five-page statement, […]
Psalm 55:4-8 My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me. And I say, “Oh, that I […]
In the NSW Presbyterian Church at the moment there is a campaign which has been mounted to seek to get Presbyteries to reject the Assembly’s decision to have male only […]
Ezekiel 13:22-23 Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to […]
1 Corinthians 14:2-5 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other […]
Psalm 50:1-2 The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. […]
What separates us from the animals? Why are we worth more than the flower of the field which fades away? “The image of God,” the Christian may confidently reply. “Humans […]
2 Samuel 1:11-12 Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. And they mourned and wept and fasted until […]
Review of Peter Barnes and Brett Lee-Price, Abolition and Abolitionism: William Wilberforce, Christian Political Action, and the Abortion Debate, Tulip Publishing, 2026. Two years ago, I asked Peter Barnes what […]
Ezekiel 7:27 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralysed by terror. According to their way I will do […]
Much has been written on the bodily resurrection of the dead when our Lord returns. But not so much on the intermediate state, the current condition of believers who have […]
