Men, Ministry and Marriage
I was preaching at a wedding recently and was deeply challenged by my own sermon. Thankfully, by God’s grace, this happens on a regular basis! As I exhorted those who […]
TODAY’S QUICK WORD
2 Samuel 16:3-4 The king [David] then asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” Ziba said to him, “He is staying in Jerusalem, because he thinks, ‘Today the house of Israel […]
A Gospel Night at Tennant Creek
A Gospel Night in Tennant Creek By the time my wife and I had reached Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia the complaint that we had heard all […]
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Psalm 69:19-21 You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed; all my enemies are before you. Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for […]
Aged Care Ministry: Challenges and Responses
I have been a Presbyterian pastor for twenty-five years, the last three of which I was privileged to serve as an aged-care chaplain. I ministered in three Presbyterian nursing homes […]
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2 Corinthians 4:13-14 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one […]
Book Review: Joni on ‘Songs of Suffering’
Review of Joni Eareckson Tada, Songs of Suffering: 25 Hymns and Devotions for Weary Souls, Wheaton: Crossway, 2022. In this work, Joni seems to progress to yet another level […]
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Ezekiel 21:25-27 “O profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Take off the turban, […]
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2 Samuel 10:6-7 When the Ammonites realised that they had become an offence to David’s nostrils, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well […]
Faith and Reason
Faith and Reason – Friends or Enemies? If you profess to have a Christian faith in our current Australian Western culture of 2023 it is easy to feel that you […]
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Psalm 58:1-5 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. […]
Book Review: The Unfaithful Bride and the Faithful Groom
Review of Neil Cullan McKinlay and D. Rudi Schwartz, The Unfaithful Bride and the Faithful Groom: Covenant Making, Breaking and Renewal, Queensland: Weemac, 2023. For details re. purchasing, write to […]
TODAY’S QUICK WORD
Ezekiel 15:6 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so […]
Book Review: Peter Cameron by Malcolm Prentis
Paul F. Cooper & David A. Burke (eds), Principle & Principal: the other side of the Rev Dr Peter Cameron heresy trial. Stanhope Gardens, NSW: Eider Books, 2023, 249 pp, […]
Book Review: Peter Cameron by Campbell Markham
Book Review, Paul Cooper and David Burke (eds.). Principle & Principal: the other side of the Rev Dr Peter Cameron heresy trial. Stanhope Gardens, NSW: Eider Books, 2023. It can be purchased […]
EPHESIANS, 76th study
A Closing Blessing “Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith…” (Ephesians 6:21) Bible Reading: Ephesians 6:21, 22 I can vividly remember the first time I heard these final […]