Christian Life
An Apocalypse of the Local Church
An Apocalypse of the Local Church, The One Great Hope for Our World A sermon from Revelation 1, preached at the opening of a new church building for Mandurah Presbyterian […]
The Danger of Ongoing Sin
The works of the Puritan divine John Owen (1616-1680), especially his works on the Mortification of Sin, are well worth the reading but they can be deeply challenging to 21st […]
An Apocalypse of the Local Church
An Apocalypse of the Local Church, The One Great Hope for Our World A sermon from Revelation 1, preached at the opening of a new church building for Mandurah Presbyterian […]
Today’s Quick Word
Matthew 13:47-50 “Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled […]
A Month Spent with our Partner Church: CCAP Zambia
Nothing is fair Nothing seems right. It’s not fair that most of the people I see around me live with pressing, daily, dire needs – needs of absolute necessity. It […]
World News
CHRISTIAN AID IN THE FOREFRONT IN VENEZUELAN TRAGEDY Back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela within a minute of each other on June 24. The second quake reached 7.5, making it the strongest […]
Today’s Quick Word
Isaiah 64:11-12 Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins. After all this, LORD, will you hold […]
Today’s Quick Word
Psalm 126:1-2 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the […]
Counsel Culture and the Church
Western culture can be summed up with three words – cancel, consumer and counsel. In a week where a well-known TV journalist was cancelled because he interviewed someone the establishment […]
The Preacher as an Artist?
Recently, my wife and I, along with four hundred residents of Anglicare, Castle Hill were entertained with a delightful rendition of classical music from Brahms, Schubert, Chopin and Prokofiev by […]
Today’s Quick Word
Joshua 2:3-5 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come to spy out […]
Social Media Bans: Vanity, Vanity
On 10 December 2025 the Australian government brought in age restrictions for those wishing to use social media – the age being sixteen. Predictably, there were outcries of ‘Censorship’, […]
Today’s Quick Word
Matthew 9:37-38 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” […]
The Spiritual Discipline of Sleeping
Sleep and the Gospel It should go without saying—but ironically, it needs to be said—that the reason we can sleep at all is because of Jesus’ death and resurrection. The […]
Today’s Quick Word
Isaiah 58:13-14 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s […]
A Look at the Women in Judges 4
The Presbyterian Church of NSW is currently debating whether women can be elders in the future. An elder is a member of Session and a senior leader of God’s church. […]
The Meaning of God’s Name ‘YHWH’, and Why Jesus Owned It
An exposition of Exodus 3:10–15 God appears to Moses in the Burning Bush, which, though aflame, is not consumed. He hears the cries of his enslaved people, he remembers his […]
