Release From a COVID Christmas
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 12 December 2020 The book of Isaiah is commonly understood to contain four Servant Songs, the best-known being Isaiah 52:13-53:12, which is that of the Suffering […]
Book Review: Gracious Survival (Emily C. Ward)
Stanhope Gardens: Eider Books, 2020 Born in 1933, Emily Ward has seen much over her long life. She was not born into a Christian family, but a diligent assistant minister, […]
Reset or Revival?
Everyone is talking about it – the UN, the politicians, the environmentalists, the media. Even the church wants in on the act. 2020 has been a pretty horrible year but, […]
Today’s Quick Word: 14-20 December 2020
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no-one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to […]
Jesus beyond the Talmud
A Jew’s pattern of moral behaviour involves absolute adherence to the literal directives of Torah (the Five books of Moses) especially the 613 mitzvot or commandments as classified by Maimonides […]
The Unpublished Letter
After I was appointed Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church in 2013, I thought I ought to get a national perspective on the news, and so I have been a […]
World News: Armenian sites desecrated
Scores of religious sites, artefacts and gravestones have been desecrated or plundered in Nagorno-Karabakh, during the recent military conflict with majority-Muslim Azerbaijan, says Christian charity Open Doors, according to reports […]
Ten Problems with Being ‘Woke’
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year. But of deeper concern, than even COVID-19, is the growing threat that Critical Race Theory—popularly expressed as being ‘woke’—has had upon much of […]
World News: 30 Congolese Christians killed, 10 raped
At least 30 Christians were killed, and 10 young women and girls raped, in a string of attacks on five villages in Democratic Republic of Congo by jihadi terrorists. An […]
The Love of God
The Bible declares most emphatically – and repeats it – that ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8, 16). It is a sentiment which resonates with more than just the Christian […]
World News: Abducted Christian girl freed
Police in Pakistan’s Faisalabad area have freed a 12-year-old Christian girl, five months after Muslim men allegedly abducted, forcibly converted her to Islam, and one of them married her. Police […]
Have Yourself A Merry Cromwellian Christmas
It’s the Christmas month. Where is the tinsel? Trees? Light? Endless adverts? For UK exiles Christmas seems different in Australia – Turkey on the beach?!. It appears to this outsider […]
Today’s Quick Word: 7-13 December 2020
[An elder] must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. Titus […]
The Christian and Social Media in the Age of Disappointment
President Trump is a polarising public figure, and it’s fair to say that even the mention his name is to invite peak anger on social media. While not quite as […]
The Ten Truths
I am a post war, ‘baby boomer’, I have never known any other state than freedom, including the freedom to speak my mind. Since 1968 I have been a Christian […]
A Day of Reckoning: Victorian Government pushes to ban Christian practices with threat of 10 years in prison
Originally posted on murraycampbell.net The day has come in Victoria where Christians and Churches need to decide whether to obey God or the Government. Such a decision should never be […]
