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David Robertson

David Robertson is a Scottish Presbyterian minister who came to Australia in 2019 to direct Third Space – an evangelistic project designed to help churches in outreach and evangelism in todays culture. You can contact him at david.robertson@thirdspace.org.au
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Social Commentary

Newspapers, Bias and Truth

The Scottish poet, Robbie Burns, had a way with words. At the end of the poem ‘To a Louse’ he writes: O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels […]

By David Robertson Posted on 1 day ago

Social Commentary 1

The Queen

I have been trying to catch up on Australian culture, so this Christmas watched the 2002 Australian film – Crackerjack – a film about bowling which became the no. 1 […]

By David Robertson Posted on 3 weeks ago

Social Commentary 1

Living Before our Creator and Judge

“We have a vaccine!” And so the world rejoices and looks forward to getting back to normal. “There has been a tremendous cost this year because of Covid – firstly […]

By David Robertson Posted on 1 month ago

The Church 1

Reset or Revival?

Everyone is talking about it – the UN, the politicians, the environmentalists, the media. Even the church wants in on the act. 2020 has been a pretty horrible year but, […]

By David Robertson Posted on 1 month ago

Christian Life 1

Have Yourself A Merry Cromwellian Christmas

It’s the Christmas month. Where is the tinsel? Trees? Light? Endless adverts? For UK exiles Christmas seems different in Australia – Turkey on the beach?!. It appears to this outsider […]

By David Robertson Posted on 2 months ago

The Church 1

Come Let Us Hum

“Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with […]

By David Robertson Posted on 2 months ago

Ministry 1

The Importance of Preaching in a Post-Covid World

I had the privilege of preaching at Scots Presbyterian in Sydney a couple of Sundays ago, and it reminded me of how much I miss the joy of being able […]

By David Robertson Posted on 2 months ago

Social Commentary 1

Where Does Honesty Come From?

After attending a meeting in Sydney’s CBD, I headed home by train to Artarmon. After I got off the train, I realised that I had left my wallet on the […]

By David Robertson Posted on 2 months ago

Christian Life 1

Politics, the Church and Freedom

The church member was quite adamant. What a dreadful message – the minister should stay out of politics. To which most of us would say a hearty ‘amen’. The last […]

By David Robertson Posted on 3 months ago

Social Commentary 1

Secular Pharisees, Publicans and Puritans

As I listened to Dan Andrews explaining the rules again for Victoria, apart from losing the will to live, the thought struck me that the spirit of the Pharisees, Publicans […]

By David Robertson Posted on 27th October 2020

Social Commentary 1

Tom Holland: How Christianity Gained Dominion and A Secular Historian Loses His Faith (In Liberalism)

Glen Scrivener is an Australian Anglican minister, film maker and evangelist. We didn’t do this deliberately, but it looks as though we have done an ‘evangelist swap’. Whilst the Scottish […]

By David Robertson Posted on 17th October 2020

Book Review 1

Through All the Changing Scenes

“The providence of God is like Hebrew words – it can be read only backwards.” So wrote John Flavel. “Of making many books there is no end and much study […]

By David Robertson Posted on 10th October 2020

Social Commentary 1

A Shore Thing?: Is Complementarianism to Blame for Laddish Behaviour?

There is a test of behaviour that Christian institutions need to have – ‘what would Jesus say? In a similar vein I was recently made aware of a lesser test […]

By David Robertson Posted on 30th September 2020

The Church 1

Is Church a Good Laugh?

“And you stand laughing, raising a laugh like women of the world who are on stage. This has overthrown, this has cast down everything. Everything we do is turned into […]

By David Robertson Posted on 23rd September 2020

The Church 2

Come Let Us Sing?

Being back in a service of public worship last Sunday was lovely. The ‘social distancing’ is not too much of a culture change for this Scottish Presbyterian – although the […]

By David Robertson Posted on 16th September 2020

Social Commentary 2

Who Cares for the Elderly?

“If you don’t have a computer you don’t exist in the eyes of the church”. It was a stunning statement from a ‘mature’ woman in her eighties. Devastating. But it […]

By David Robertson Posted on 10th September 2020

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