A Real Consultation – A Dialogue with a Female Elder
The NSW Presbyterian General Assembly is holding a ‘consultation’ about the issue of women elders. The consultation is itself a bit of a farce – with some regarding it as […]
Preaching to Meet Our Peoples’ Needs
Dr Graham Miller, friend and mentor of many young ministers in his day, and now in glory, once told a group of us that he never had queues of people […]
The Goal of Every Christian Ministry
The Goal of Every Christian Ministry ‘Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction, we were encouraged about you through your faith. For (Greek: ὅτι) now we live, […]
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 […]