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Peter Barnes

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

Social Commentary

Religious Freedoms and the Religious Discrimination Bill in Australia, 2019-2020

It is not uncommon in life to be dragged into unwelcome territory – I once took a kindergarten Scripture class which came to resemble drowning on land, as the children […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 15th January 2020

Book Review

Book Review: Meeting Jesus (R. C. Sproul)

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 With the death of R. C. Sproul in 2017, the Reformed world lost one of its most articulate apologists and evangelists. His gifts come to […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 10th January 2020

Living as Debtors

In 1546 Martin Luther was dying. He had been trying to resolve a dispute within a family at nearby Mansfield when he fell seriously ill. On his death bed, he […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 14th December 2019

Droughts, Fires and Other Disasters

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 November 2019 Some readers may have struggled with the drought for years, and now, especially in NSW and Queensland, may be confronted with the more immediate […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 10th December 2019

Book Review: Safe and Sound (David Powlison)

Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2019 David Powlison died of cancer soon after this, his last book, was published. It is a short but worthwhile treatment of spiritual warfare. Powlison […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 9th December 2019

Remembering the Reformation

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 29 October 2019 As one who loves to read history, I have never quite shared the desire to keep anniversaries. It often seems that the louder the […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 5th November 2019

In Whom Do I Trust?

There are people who like to think that they do not trust anything or anyone. It used to be common for people to say that they only believed what they […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 1st November 2019

Book Review: Saved by Grace Alone (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones)

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2016 Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones remains the most pre-eminent preacher in the English language from the twentieth century. Having said that, it is not unfair to say […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 28th September 2019

What Should a Church Look Like?

Moderator’s Comments – Posted 24 September 2019 The apostle Jude said that he was very eager to write on one subject – our common salvation – when he found it necessary […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 28th September 2019

Book Review: Voices from the Past Volume 2 (Richard Rushing [ed.])

Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2016 This is the second volume of Puritan daily readings to have been compiled by Richard Rushing, and it is as welcome as the first. For […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 28th September 2019

Theology

How Did Jesus View the Cross?

It is a commonplace in theologically liberal circles to downplay the cross, to say, as Adolf von Harnack did, that the gospel is all about the fatherhood of God, the […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 29th August 2019

Book Review: Cremation, Embalmment, or Neither? (Alvin J. Schmidt)

Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2015 Even a century ago, the issue of the advisability and appropriateness of cremation was still being discussed in mainstream Protestant Churches. For centuries, the view had […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 17th August 2019

Book Review: In Their Own Words (David Calhoun)

Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth, 2018 David Calhoun had a wonderful idea in putting this book together, and the result is most encouraging and refreshing. In Acts 9 we read […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 15th August 2019

Justice and Truth in the Public Square

It is fearful how often the condition of ancient Israel resembles that of the modern world. One example of this is found in Isaiah 59: ‘Justice is turned back, and […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 9th July 2019

Devotional

Three Points of Meditation Upon the Resurrection of Christ

The historian, Philip Schaff, is often cited regarding the resurrection of Christ: ‘Truly, Jesus Christ, the Christ of the Gospels, the Christ of history, the crucified and risen Christ, the […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 28th May 2019

Book Review: That Hideous Strength: How the West Was Lost (Melvin Tinker)

Welwyn: Evangelical Press, 2018 Drawing on the title of a C. S. Lewis novel – which is itself derived from Sir David Lyndsay – Tinker offers a searching critique of […]

By Peter Barnes Posted on 24th May 2019

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