
Pastoring – Some Advice
Things I Wish I Knew about Pastoring a Church When I was Young I was 28 when I started in full-time ministry as associate pastor in a large Presbyterian church. […]
Reformed Thought for Christian Living
Things I Wish I Knew about Pastoring a Church When I was Young I was 28 when I started in full-time ministry as associate pastor in a large Presbyterian church. […]
36 hours in transit (Melbourne – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Addis Ababa – Blantyre) seems at first to be an unreasonable and unbearable route to take just to connect […]
The Independent Presbyterian Church of Kenya (IPC) traces its beginnings back past independence in 1963, to 1948 when two missionaries from the USA came to Kenya, and even earlier, to the […]
Multi-Service, Multi-Site, Multi-Church Some things become so common as to seem normal, even inevitable, when in reality they are innovations. For many churches, it’s normal to repeat the same worship […]
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 […]
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 […]
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT PREACHING FROM TIM KELLER When I heard last week that Tim Keller had died, I had two responses. The first was sadness. I was sad because […]
Despite thirty years of overseas ministry, regularly including India, teaching and attempting to demonstrate the principles of systematic Bible preaching, each journey leaves me wondering at God’s marvellous plan to […]
HOW TO GIVE OURSELVES WITHOUT PREACHING OURSELVES Ministering the gospel in a godly way is not just difficult but impossible. To the Thessalonian Christians, Paul spoke of himself as like a nursing mother (1 Thess.2:7) and also like a father (1 Thess.2:11). His language was very strong: ‘So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with […]
NEARLY THE LAST WORD As the Vandals threatened Hippo in 430, Augustine – who was close to the end of his own life – confessed to his congregation: ‘I […]
INDUCTION OF PENDETA GUNUNG MASTON HUTAURUK into the pastoral charge of HURSTVILLE INDONESIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (29th October 2022) – Sermon on Acts 10:24-48 by Robert Benn Let us pray: May […]
A Tract in Every Language telling the Story of Jesus Have you ever been in a situation where you would love to leave a gospel message with someone but had […]
My First Night with Jesus Cares I am currently filling in for a friend from Church as the Volunteer Co-ordinator for Jesus Cares Ministry, which is an interdenominational charity that […]
Reverend Paul McKendrick has served as a pastor in Evans Head, and now works with Ministry and Mission. In this episode of Profiles in Christian Living, Mark Powell talks to Paul about what we are to think of the coming minister drought.
(Tunes: All Saints or Joyful, Joyful) 1. God has made us in His image,In His likeness we were formed,Pinnacle of His creation,Known by Him before we’re born.In rebellion, we were […]
I’m retired, and I know I’m getting grumpy, but I’ve visited lots of churches this year (in person or online) and too many of our church services are just too […]