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 […]

THE TRUTH, THE CHURCH AND THE TROJAN HORSE OF CIVIL LAW IN THE CHURCH –  A RESPONSE TO JOHN BUCHANAN. Give Light and the Darkness will Disappear of Itself (Erasmus). […]

THE NSW ASSEMBLY OF 2024, AND WORK, HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION If we would bring non-Christians to Christianity, we must first be Christians (Erasmus). I am yet to meet an […]

LOVE AND THE LAW: A Response to Hugh Prattis Hugh Prattis makes a good and necessary plea that we seek to understand one another.   Amen to that.   And he is […]

Love and Legislation There’s been some debate recently about the interplay between legislation and love. Some people – including me – have claimed that complying with certain legislation is loving, […]

The office of elder is one of the primary components of Presbyterian polity. Importantly, this particular form of church government is founded upon the Scriptures contained in both the Old […]

I REMEMBER … The 2024 UK Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference AS a victim of a ‘liberal’ theological education in the 1960’s who was brought back from the brink of […]

Preaching the Beauty of God The children leaned forward. They crowded around my knees as I read. Their faces were full of wonder. This is what a teacher lives for […]

Complementarianism or Capitulationism? ‘Oh sister are you licensed to preach? What kind of a church do you belong to anyway, they let women preach in it?’ — John Wayne Rooster […]

SERMON ILLUSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS AND ISLAM Illustrations and applications are often part and parcel of preaching and Christian discipleship. They help the truths of God’s word to be understood and […]

There is a curious paragraph in the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) chapter 25. Often we tend to read over this paragraph without thinking about it. Paragraph two says: The […]

Sunday I feel like I’m experiencing something special attending Sunday morning worship at Kanele prayer house, Lundazi. I know there are Pentecostal-type churches back home with names like “Experience Church”, […]

Two hard days. I’m totally exhausted. Friday This was an all-day drive from Lusaka (5.30am) to Lundazi (6.00pm) with an hour off for lunch at Chipata.  African courtesy demands that […]

I was 28 when I started in full-time ministry as associate pastor in a large Presbyterian church. I was thirty when I was called to pastor a small suburban church […]

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 […]