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Bryan Kim

Bryan is the minister of Macleay Presbyterian Churches on the Mid North Coast, NSW.

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Devotional

Fear is Negative but not all Bad

FEAR IS “NEGATIVE” BUT NOT ALL BAD Something I often find that trips up Christians, even those who have been Christians for years, is the idea that Christianity is supposed […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 2 months ago

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Soft Hearts and Hard Heads

The Theology of the Church – Discipline Calls for Soft Hearts and Hard Heads The Reformation taught that there were three marks of the Church: the pure preaching of the […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 9th February 2026

Book Review: ‘Revival and Revivalism’

Iain H. Murray, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1994 Rarely does a study of history not only inform the mind […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 25th November 2025

Book review: ‘Evangelicalism Divided’

Review of Iain H. Murray, Evangelicalism Divided, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982 This is a book I heard recommended by Mark Dever at a Banner of Truth conference at the […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 15th September 2025

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Sacraments and the Visible Church

The Theology of the Church – Sacraments and the Visible Church In an earlier article I wrote about the useful theological distinction of the visible and invisible church (WCF 25) […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 23rd March 2025

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Public Theology

Rendering to Caesar What is God’s

Rendering to Caesar What is God’s: The 2024 NSW Presbyterian Assembly             In 2024 the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales felt obliged to respond to state […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 11th March 2025

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The Visible and Invisible Church

The Visible and Invisible Church We sadly live in a day and age where there is much confusion about what the Bible teaches about the Church. This includes who and […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 17th February 2025

Book review: Patient Ferment, part 2

Part 2 of 2 of Review of Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016 In this second part of a 2-part review, having recorded […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 5th May 2024

Book Review: Patient Ferment of the Early Church

Part 1 of 2 of Review of Alan Kreider, The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016 This work of Alan Kreider’s has been without doubt one […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 3rd May 2024

Book Review: The Creedal Imperative

Review of Carl Trueman, The Creedal Imperative, Wheaton: Crossway, 2012 The Creedal Imperative appeared on several recommended reading lists in my time at college, but given its title, I didn’t […]

By Bryan Kim Posted on 26th February 2024

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