Lines Written Above Earth While Flying From Melbourne To London
Tom Blunden, our history teacher at Newcastle Boys’ High School used to decry the fact that the school’s curriculum was structured in such a way that we could take either […]
BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
Christians live between life here on earth and the life to come. Sometimes life here seems rather mundane – we are washing dishes, picking up the washing, taking out the […]
Longing for my children
(I have changed names and details to protect identity) Zahrah knew she would soon be dead if she didn’t leave. She pressed her one-year-old son to her breast, while the […]
Review: God’s Way of Holiness
Review of Horatius Bonar, God’s Way of Holiness: Finding true holiness through true peace, Fearn: Christian Focus Publications, 1999. Sometimes we need to be reminded of classic works that have been republished. […]
A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
At Thessalonica, Paul and the early Christian evangelists were accused of being men who had ‘turned the world upside down’ (Acts 17:6). Actually, they were trying to turn it right-side […]
The Attributes of God: Eternal
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. ““I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and […]
Why You Should Not Give Full-Vent of your Anger Towards God
For quite some time, there’s a popular notion going around in Christian circles that it’s not only OK to give full-vent of one’s anger towards God, but that it’s also […]
THE CENTRALITY OF GOD’S WORD
Attending Bible College in the 1960s involved a two-year course, each year having three terms. This meant that six areas of Systematic Theology were covered, the first being the foundational […]
RESURRECTION AND PERSECUTION
At first glance, resurrection and persecution may not seem to be related, unless linked by martyrdom. After all, Richard Dawkins has claimed that religion was invented as a ‘comfort-blanket’ to […]
Apartheid Australia 
There was a time when those on the left knew that apartheid was wrong. The South African system of ‘separate cultural development’ was rightly considered to be segregationist, racist and evil. But […]
SINGING THE GOSPEL
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to […]
My life in Messiah (Ephesians 1:4; 2:10)
I thought I heard his footsteps faintly like a cool wind rustling through my mind when as a young boy. Jesus called me by my name; I heard him whisper […]
God is Eternal
God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. In 2 Peter 3:8 we read: “With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, […]
Privileged vs Disadvantaged
I recently did a ministry safety course in which one question asked us to differentiate people into categories: the privileged and disadvantaged. The privileged comprised those with a stable family, […]
Shane Warne’s Death and Eternity
Vale Shane Warne. The passing of Australia’s most iconic cricketer is a reminder for all Australians that death and eternity are sober and glorious realities that all of us will […]
ALL THINGS IN MODERATION?
There is nothing like a breath of fresh air after a bout of mask-wearing or a lockdown, and the same is true in looking at life, and the claims of […]