The Attributes of God: All-Powerful
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. Our culture often thinks about power as a bad thing. “Power corrupts”, we […]
Are Natural Disasters the Judgment of God?
In the light of recent floods and bushfires, Australians are divided as to the cause of natural disasters. For many millennials, anthropogenic climate change is the primary culprit. The venial […]
The Attributes of God: ‘Being’
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. God, in the fullness of His being, is completely present in every location […]
The Attributes of God: Unchangeable
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are […]
God is Infinite – His greatness is unsearchable
Psalm 145:3 The LORD is great and is highly praised; his greatness is unsearchable. People are complex and after a few decades they build up a wealth of experience and […]
MATTHEW 19:9 – A Deadly Exception
– A DEADLY EXCEPTION In the Reformed tradition, adultery or deliberate desertion are “sufficient reason for dissolving the bond of marriage”; the innocent may remarry and the guilty party treated as […]
LIVING HAPPILY IN A HOUSE OF CARDS
It is surely a truism, and not a disputed point of philosophy, that all human beings desire happiness. Even those who promote misery do so to glean some sort of […]
Martin Luther on Matthew 25:1-13
Five-hundred years ago—on the 21st October, 1522 to be precise—Martin Luther preached a sermon on Matthew 25:1-13. It’s a fascinating test case for Luther’s understanding of the Gospel, and in particular his view […]
Predestined to Life
The doctrine of predestination will always be accompanied with controversy, disagreement and possibly even the covering of ears, the raising of arm hair and the chilling of spines. Let me […]
The Story beneath the Story
No matter the story, there is usually a story beneath the story. Every news item is seldom as straightforward as it seems, whether it be domestic violence, fraudulent practice or […]
Paul’s Argument in Galatians is Covenantal
Before his conversion on the Damascus road (Acts 9.1-19), the apostle Paul would have found the idea of a crucified messiah abhorrent because of Deuteronomy 21.23 (‘for he that is […]
God As God: Justice And Mercy
In explaining the cross, the apostle Paul demonstrates that it reveals both God’s righteousness and His mercy, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has […]
The Unstoppable Gospel
The book of Acts is well suited to be studied in a year of what we hope will be recovery like 2021. The affect of Acts is to bring about […]
Re-thinking ordination
Back in the 1970s many of us learned to be suspicious of ordination and all that went with it. The spectacle of some leaders being given special status among the […]
Are Christians Better People Than Others?
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) managed to get himself into theological and moral trouble throughout most of his life. When he wrote Sic et Non (‘Yes and No’) to argue that the […]
Paul’s Journal (Acts 9.3; 2 Timothy 4.7)
God is light with us, God is light behind us, whispered into time. Is his light abiding? Springing as a clay bird, his wondrous voice encircling, strikes me like a […]