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Peter Barnes

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

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

Devotional

Beggars in Need of Help (Psalm 28:2)

We expect life to be normal, by which we think of something resembling Utopia. However, we find it full of troubles, and it dislocates our thinking. Christians have an explanation […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 14th May 2020

Book Review

Book Review: If I Could Speak (Mark Jones)

Fearn: UK, Christian Focus, 2019 Mark Jones has adopted an imaginative way to approach the abortion issue by calling himself Zoe who is an unborn girl and who writes fourteen […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 27th April 2020

Book Review

Book Review: The Bible in Australia (Meredith Lake)

Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018 Meredith Lake has produced an intriguing and wonderfully-written work on a most significant subject. Her thesis is that the Bible is under Australian skin – quite […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 18th April 2020

Christian Life

Book Review: Journeying with Bonhoeffer (Andreas Loewe & Katherine Firth)

Six Steps on the Path of DiscipleshipSydney: Morning Star Publishing, 2019 The martyr, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged by the Nazis in 1945, is often portrayed in political terms, but he was […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 15th April 2020

Christian Life

Christians Responding to the Pandemic

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 14 April 2020 It seems that there is but one topic of conversation these days: COVID-19. If we are not suffering from the virus, we must […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 15th April 2020

Book Review

Book Review: Is Jesus History? (John Dickson)

United Kingdom: The Good Book Company, 2019 In an age when supposedly intelligent pundits can openly question whether Jesus even existed, this is a work to be welcomed and studied. […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 14th April 2020

Christian Life

Book Review: Where to Start with Islam (Samuel Green)

Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 In learning of their own faith, Muslims learn something of Christianity – however erroneous that turns out to be – but Christians are not necessarily raised […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 6th April 2020

Book Review

Book Review: John Newton’s Diary, 1764 (Edited by Marylynn Rouse)

The John Newton Project, 2020 1764 was the year in which John Newton took up his ministry at Olney, and this is his diary. Those who have appreciated the earlier […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 3rd April 2020

Christian Life

Living in an Age of Anxiety

In 1965 E. R. Dodds wrote an historical work entitled Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety where he dealt with the period between the Roman Emperors, Marcus Aurelius, […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 30th March 2020

Christian Life

The Curse of Plague: The Blessing of Faith

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 19 March 2020 Dr Samuel Johnson is supposed to have written to a hopeful would-be author: ‘Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 20th March 2020

The Church

Paedocommunion: Children at the Lord’s Table?

There are many things in life that remind us that we look through the glass darkly. We wish we understood more than we do. The classic Presbyterian view is that […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 19th March 2020

Social Commentary

Religious Discrimination or Religious Revival?

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 2 March 2020 In any society the legal system plays an important role in steering people in the way we should treat one another. Increasingly, in […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 11th March 2020

Devotional

Greatly Beloved of God

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 10 December 2019 There is an episode in the book of Daniel where a man – presumably an angel – appeared to the prophet, and addresses […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 7th February 2020

Theology

The Rites of Initiation: Circumcision and Baptism

God has left His new covenant people with two visible signs of His invisible grace: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Down through the ages, Christians have differed in their understanding […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 1st February 2020

Social Commentary

A Straw in the Wind

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 28 January 2020 Stuart Briscoe once noted: ‘Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 29th January 2020

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