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Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes is the editor of AP and pastor at Revesby Presbyterian Church NSW.

Social Commentary

Knowing Our Limitations

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 15 September 2020 If anyone is looking for suitable reading in lockdown – or in wild freedom, for that matter – Blaise Pascal’s Pensées is indeed food for the […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 17th September 2020

History

Three Deaths: Socrates, Stephen, and Jesus

While reviewing some meditations on the cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I came across his summary that ‘Socrates overcame dying; Christ overcame death.’ It is one of those startling comments which […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 4th September 2020

History

Paul: A Man Misunderstood

We are all prone to plead that we have been understood, but the apostle Paul was in reality a man much misunderstood. The word ‘nuanced’ can be a weasel word, […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 29th August 2020

Book Review

Book Review: en.courage.ment (Charles H. Spurgeon)

Pennsylvania: R. P. B. Northern Publishing Company, 2019 Many readers will know Spurgeon’s devotional work, Morning and Evening, from which these forty daily readings are taken. The language is more […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 24th August 2020

Social Commentary

Responding to Covid Restrictions: Church and State

John MacArthur and the elders at Grace Community Church have recently issued a clarion call declaring that Christ, not Caesar, is the Head of the Church, and that therefore the […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 21st August 2020

Book Review

Book Review: Psalms by the Day (Alec Motyer)

Fearn: Christian Focus, 2016 This volume is designed to take the reader through the whole Psalter in 73 days. Dr Motyer has provided his own translation, has added some analysis […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 20th August 2020

Social Commentary

We are all Free to Agree: The Case of Dr Jereth Kok

Dr Jereth Kok is a young medical practitioner in Melbourne, and an evangelical Christian who worships with the Christian Community Churches of Victoria. He has taken his place along with […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 13th August 2020

Book Review

Book Review: God and the Pandemic (N. T. Wright)

London: SPCK, 2020 Having just read a collection mainly of Puritan sermons from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on Godly Directions in a Time of Plague (Crossville: Puritan Publications, 2020), […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 4th August 2020

Christian Life

Creatures of Habit

We live as those who live not knowing what the next day will bring. We are also creatures of habit, and that works both ways. Once we have developed certain […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 3rd August 2020

Book Review

Book Review: Exegetical Letters and Sermons on Hebrews (Charles Hodge)

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 Those readers who have appreciated Charles Hodge’s commentaries on Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, and Ephesians will welcome this shorter work on Hebrews. It is […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 30th July 2020

Christian Life

Forgiveness in Three Images

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 July 2020 Christians always want to understand the world better than it understands itself in order that we can comment on it with light and […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 24th July 2020

Christian Life

How to Deceive without Really Lying

Soon after falling into sin, Adam was confronted by the God whom he had offended: ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 3rd July 2020

Book Review

Book Review: Beyond the Fish Sticker (Ben Swift)

Sydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 Benjamin Swift is a Presbyterian freelance writer from Brisbane, who has written a short but wide-ranging book on seeking a deeper knowledge of God and […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 29th June 2020

Christian Life

The One Thing Needful

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 15 June 2020 There are seasons in life when the light shines a little more brightly, and all looks rather clearer, even if all is not […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 17th June 2020

Ministry

Noel Weeks: A Memorial

On 14 March 2020 a memorial service for Dr Noel Weeks was held at the Shire Christian School, the school he did so much to help set up in and […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 25th May 2020

Christian Life

Pressing On or Treading Water?

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 April 2020 There is still a strange eerie feeling about the community at the moment. It was present during the bushfires, and it is still […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 22nd May 2020

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