How to Present Your Sermon Really Well
How to Present Your Sermon Really Well The basics of good and bad sermon delivery Like every skill worth doing, good preaching requires sustained study, effort, practice, self-evaluation, and a […]
The Hardest Thing for Christians to Do
The Hardest Thing for Christians to Do With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth (Psalm 119.13). (Please read Psalm 119.9-16.) WHAT’S the hardest thing for […]
Biblical Foundations for Christian Education
Biblical Foundations for Christian Education “Teach me O Lord the way of your statutes and I will keep it to the end” (Psalm 119:33). Of everyone involved in any form […]
Aboriginal Ministry in Moree, April 2025
ABORIGINAL MINISTRY IN MOREE, NSW (April 2025) We do all in the knowledge that “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it” (Psalm 127:1). Moree, […]
Questions for Sermon Self-Analysis
QUESTIONS FOR SERMON SELF-ANALYSIS 2) Have I summarised my sermon in one sentence, stressing the main point? 3) Have I worked prayerfully and carefully to understand the passage? 4) Have […]
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) […]
Motivation in Ministerial Vows
The Vows of Office – Motivation This is a further instalment in a series on the vows of Presbyterian Church of Australia ministers and elders. For the earlier articles see […]
The Lord’s Service
The Lord’s Service[1] By Elijah Harris Introduction Recently, David Burke resumed his series of articles on the PCA ministerial vows, writing on the third and fourth of these regarding Presbyterian […]
Worship and Government
The Vows of Office – Worship and Government This is a further instalment in a series on the vows of Presbyterian Church of Australia ministers and elders. For the earlier […]
The Case for Covenant Baptism
Both Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are events which were celebrated in the Old Testament as well as the New. As the apostle Paul writes: ‘For I want you to […]
A Voiceless Gender?
My name is Joy Arundell … and I have a lot of opinions and convictions. I’ve heard that a number of women in Presbyterian Churches feel that they do not […]
The Heart of the Shepherd-Elder
Here is the Heart of the Christian Elder (1 Peter 5:1–4) There is a serious shortage of pastors and elders today. Theological college enrolments are down. Many existing leaders, whether […]
Presbyterian Men and Women
James Snare, convener for the committee, Women in Ministry and in the Presbyterian Church of Australia (WMPCA), recently published in AP a summary of the report which was received by […]
Men and Women in the Presbyterian Church
Men and Women in the Presbyterian Church In recent years, it seems as though the question of how men and women are to serve together in the contemporary church is […]
Church Government in the Apostolic Period
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CHURCH AND CHURCH GOVERNMENT IN THE APOSTOLIC PERIOD Introduction The existence of the Christian Church comes from Christ. He builds the Church (Matthew 16:18; Hebrews 3:1-6; […]
Writing an Article
WRITING AN ARTICLE Here is some advice from an editor who does not quite fit E. B. White’s double-sided definition: ‘An editor is a person who knows more about […]