Today’s Quick Word
Psalm 126:1-2 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the […]
Counsel Culture and the Church
Western culture can be summed up with three words – cancel, consumer and counsel. In a week where a well-known TV journalist was cancelled because he interviewed someone the establishment […]
A Look at the Women in Judges 4
The Presbyterian Church of NSW is currently debating whether women can be elders in the future. An elder is a member of Session and a senior leader of God’s church. […]
The Five Points and Faith (The Six-Point Calvinist)
The idea of ‘faith’ may be implied but not specifically included in the Five Points of Calvinism formula. That is largely because they are an expression of a particular response […]
Jesus, the Mercy Seat of God
Jesus and the Wrath of God I was recently preaching through the book of 1 Samuel when I discovered a theological connection which I had never noticed before, but I […]
World News
CHINA’S NATIONWIDE CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIAN CHURCHESZion Church is China’s largest independent Protestant house church network. While Zion Church was originally founded in Beijing, its hybrid online-offline network expanded to over […]
Book Review: ‘In All Things Thee to See’
Book Review: In All Things Thee to See by George Herbert, edited by Stephen Witmer, (Crossway, 2026) I will admit that as far as I can remember, I have not […]
Today’s Quick Word
Psalm 107:2-3 Let the redeemed of the LORD tell their story those he redeemed from the hand of the foe, those he gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north […]
Thomas Boston – His last years (1724-1731)
“I see that I believe the gospel, with application to myself; and find, that my expectations from it do ultimately resolve themselves on the faithfulness of God in the word […]
Female Elders, the ‘Westminster Model’, and the Question of History
As the NSW Presbyterian Church nears the time of making a decision about female elders, some have been exposed to the contents of a paper that was proposed to the […]
Thomas Boston – Human Nature in its Fourfold State
Human Nature in its Fourfold State Some preachers are natural poets. Boston once composed “a kind of a poem on friendship.” However he judged that it, like his other attempts […]
World News
‘LOOT AND THEFT OF CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS’: INDIAN LAW TARGETS NONPROFITSIndia’s government is facing growing backlash for proposing to change a key law that regulates foreign funding for nonprofit organizations. It’s […]
Thomas Boston – Period 11 (1717-1724)
“My son Thomas… told me, he was troubled with ill thoughts… that God did not hear his prayers; and that for that sometimes he forgot his prayers at night: that […]
How the World has Changed since Same-Sex Marriage
Nothing was Going to Change…or Was It? The challenge for Christians today is the same as it was for God’s people when they were in exile in Babylon. Whenever an […]
Thomas Boston – Period 10 (1712-1717)
“In partaking I was helped to the exercise of faith, took God for my God in Christ, claimed Him as my God…” The body and blood of Christ It was […]
The Dangers of National Repentance
The Dangers of National Repentance I recently read an essay by C.S. Lewis, “Dangers of National Repentance”, which seems as timely today as ever. He notes that “the first and […]