Christian Life
Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition?
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
2 Samuel 14:1-3 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom. And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said […]
Biblical Prophecy versus Speculative Projection
The key to understanding To enter the holiday home where we spent our last summer, we first needed the code for the front-door lock. Once inside, we found a large […]
Today’s Quick Word
Psalm 66:13-15 I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in […]
A Plea to Preachers to Preach More and Lecture Less
As a young Christian, a long time ago, I remember sermons went about 15-20 mins, were on a text selected by the minister and other than at significant times in […]
Today’s Quick Word
Ezekiel 19:1-2 And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, and say: “What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared […]
Christians and Litigation
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
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 […]
Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition?
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
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 […]
Are the Prophets Sinless and Infallible in Islam and Christianity?
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 […]
Presbyterian Church of Australia’s ‘Sex, Gender and Marriage Statement’ – a guide for a morally confused age
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, […]
Today’s Quick Word
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 […]
Presbyterians at a Crossroad?
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
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 […]
Today’s Quick Word
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. […]
