PRAYER: WHAT CAN WE PRAY FOR?
The shattering news of little Emily’s inoperable brain tumour has dominated my thinking as nothing else could. One issue that arises is obviously ‘What can we pray for?’ Jesus’ disciples […]
Review of John Newton’s Diary, 1765, edited by Marylynn Rouse for the John Newton Project, 2021.
Marylynn Rouse has put together a most valuable document in the diary of John Newton for 1765, which was his first full year in the parish of Olney. The year […]
Ten Reasons Why Euthanasia is a Bad Idea
In a significant step of moral unity, evangelical church leaders and Muslim academics recently issued a joint statement as to why doctor-assisted suicide should not be legalised in NSW. What […]
LIVING HAPPILY IN A HOUSE OF CARDS
It is surely a truism, and not a disputed point of philosophy, that all human beings desire happiness. Even those who promote misery do so to glean some sort of […]
Review of John C. Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World?, UK: The Good Book Company, 2020.
John Lennox is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University (as well as being Kristyn Getty’s uncle). Essentially, this little book is a theodicy, summed up in the title of […]
EUTHANASIA: WHAT IS LIFE WORTH?
One by one, the Australian states have adopted extreme euthanasia laws, to go alongside their extreme abortion laws and their celebration of LGBTQI lifestyles. Now, New South Wales is being […]
Jonathan Frank Boyall (1928-2021): A Faithful Witness
Jon Boyall died in August 2021, and the Presbyterian Church lost one to whom it owes a great debt. Jon was the son of a missionary father with the promising […]
GOD’S COVENANT COMMUNITY
Times of lock down do highlight what the Bible says about God’s covenant community. Throughout the Bible, God unfolds covenants with His people – a covenant of works with Adam; […]
MANDATORY VACCINES AND RAPID ANTIGEN TESTING: A WAY FORWARD?
The lockdowns associated with COVID-19 have had the effect of straining relationships in a number of places, and the church has not escaped. The threat that worshippers in NSW churches […]
Review of Emily Maurits, Thomas Clarkson: The Giant with One Idea, Fearn: Christian Focus, 2021.
Many people will have heard of William Wilberforce, the great English evangelical parliamentarian who laboured for decades to bring Britain’s involvement in the slave trade to an end. Thomas Clarkson […]
Living for Eternity
‘All that is not eternal is eternally out of date,’ said C. S. Lewis. It is one of those fresh and startling comments that Lewis was prone to make. We […]
ETHICS BY OURSELVES
Before he died of cancer in 2011, Christopher Hitchens spoke for many a modern atheist – and ancient one for that matter – when he declared: ‘We believe with certainty […]
Review of Catherine F. Vos, The Child’s Story Bible, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2021
Catherine Vos (1865-1937) was the wife of Geerhardus Vos, who was Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. This story Bible was a labour of love which she finished […]
Changing Scenes of Life
Ecclesiastes 3 sets out a poetic and memorable reminder that life has its seasons, and there is a time for everything – to be born and to die, to plant […]
Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly; The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers, Wheaton: Crossway, 2020.
Dane Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly; The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers, Wheaton: Crossway, 2020. Matthew 11:29 tells us that Jesus is gentle and lowly of heart, and […]
HISTORY AND THE HUMAN HEART
Heresies do not appear as mushrooms overnight. The Presbyterian Church in America – a body whom we would regard as a sister Church – has gone through a few disturbances, […]