AN ADMIRABLE WITNESS: KEN ELLIOTT
THE RELEASE OF KEN ELLIOTT In January 2016 Dr Kenneth Elliott and his wife Jocelyn were kidnapped by al-Qa’ida type jihadists in Burkina Faso in Africa. Three weeks later, […]
A TALE OF TWO RALLIES
MEDIA MANIPULATION The King James Version of the Bible in Mark 2:4 says that the people could not get near (or ‘come nigh to’) Jesus because of ‘the press’, […]
Review of Ullmann in India
Review of D. J. Palmer, India Where the Master has Sent Me: Julius Frederick Ullmann, Missionary, Stanhope Gardens: Eider Books, 2022. Julius Frederick Ullmann was born in Berlin in Prussia […]
Review: CALVIN AND SERVETUS
Review of Jonathan Moorhead, The Trial of the 16th Century: Calvin and Servetus, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2021 People who know little about Calvin often know marginally more about the burning […]
THREE PROBLEMS AND CHRIST
THREE PROBLEMS RESOLVED Calvin begins his Institutes of the Christian Religion with the comment that ‘Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, […]
GIVING OURSELVES WITHOUT PREACHING OURSELVES
HOW TO GIVE OURSELVES WITHOUT PREACHING OURSELVES Ministering the gospel in a godly way is not just difficult but impossible. To the Thessalonian Christians, Paul spoke of himself as […]
REVIEW OF ‘THE PASTOR’S LIFE’
The Pastor’s Life: Practical Wisdom from the Puritans, Matthew D. Haste and Shane W. Parker, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2019. In fourteen short chapters, Haste and Parker deal with different aspects […]
HELP FOR TURKEY AND SYRIA AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
Australian Presbyterian World Mission (APWM) is starting to receive enquiries from people who would like to donate to the crisis in Turkey & Syria following the devastating earthquake. We suggest […]
BANNER OF TRUTH CONFERENCE, 21-24 Feb, 2023
MODERATOR’S LETTER: CHRIST DIVIDES
CHRIST DIVIDES It is a startling and counter-intuitive thought that Christ Jesus came into the world to usher in hostility and trouble and controversy. Surely we have enough of […]
Review of ‘The Pastor and the Modern World’
Review of William Edgar, R. Kent Hughes, and Alfred Poirier, The Pastor and the Modern World, Pennsylvania: Westminster Seminary Press, 2022. This short work actually consists of three addresses […]
Review of ‘The Air We Breathe’
Review of Gen Scrivener, The Air We Breathe, UK: The Good Book Company, 2022. Glen Scrivener has almost tried to Christianise Tom Holland’s Dominion, and in doing so avoids […]
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: WHO IS JESUS?
As a pastor, I always found preaching at Christmas more difficult than I perhaps should have. Most of the preachable material comes from just four chapters: Matthew 1-2 and Luke […]
NEARLY THE LAST WORD FROM REVESBY
NEARLY THE LAST WORD As the Vandals threatened Hippo in 430, Augustine – who was close to the end of his own life – confessed to his congregation: ‘I […]
REVIEW of Simonetta Carr’s ‘Church History’
Review of Simonetta Carr, Church History, Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2022. Simonetta Carr has written a beautifully produced history of the Church. There are illustrations, time lines, things […]
FEASTING ON THE WORD OF GOD
FEASTING OR STARVING Often we find that works on history manage to incorporate the word ‘crisis’ into their titles. One does not have to read many such books before […]