Pressing On or Treading Water?
Moderator’s Comments – Posted 20 April 2020 There is still a strange eerie feeling about the community at the moment. It was present during the bushfires, and it is still […]
Disability, Vocation, and the Grace of God
Presbyterian Churches are being asked to recognise Sanctity of Life Sunday. Given the public discourse around abortion and euthanasia, this is particularly prudent. Changes in NSW legislation concerning abortion have […]
Today’s Quick Word: 18-24 May 2020
If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. […]
World News: UN accuses Myanmar
Myanmar’s military may again be carrying out crimes against humanity in Rakhine and Chin states in the conflict-ravaged country, a United Nations rights expert has warned. Yanghee Lee, the UN’s […]
Beggars in Need of Help (Psalm 28:2)
We expect life to be normal, by which we think of something resembling Utopia. However, we find it full of troubles, and it dislocates our thinking. Christians have an explanation […]
World News: China’s War on the Soul
China today is facing the worst crackdown on human rights since the Tiananmen massacre 31 years ago and the most severe assault on freedom of thought, conscience and religion since […]
Today’s Quick Word: 11-17 May 2020
Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything the LORD commanded Moses; with him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan […]
Today’s Quick Word: 4-10 May 2020
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, […]
Today’s Quick Word: 27 April – 3 May 2020
If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing corn or the whole field, the one who started the fire must […]
Book Review: If I Could Speak (Mark Jones)
Fearn: UK, Christian Focus, 2019 Mark Jones has adopted an imaginative way to approach the abortion issue by calling himself Zoe who is an unborn girl and who writes fourteen […]
Better than Star Wars – Bunyan’s Holy War
“In my Travels, as I walked through many Regions and Countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous Continent of Universe; a very large and spacious Country it is. It […]
Understanding the Novel Corona Virus wisely
The religious question some people ask from this particular pandemic is “Why does God allow such devastating suffering?”. The first thing to note about Covid-19 is that God did not […]
An Admirable Church
St Helen’s Church of England is in the middle of the city of London, very close to the Headquarters of Lloyds and the Bank of England, in Bishopsgate. The church […]
Jonah: Pursuit, Preaching, Providence (and Promise)
The book of Jonah is one of the best-known stories in the Bible, but it is often relegated to children’s books and Sunday School colouring pages. Jonah seems to have […]
Today’s Quick Word: 20-26 April 2020
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will […]
Book Review: The Bible in Australia (Meredith Lake)
Sydney: NewSouth Books, 2018 Meredith Lake has produced an intriguing and wonderfully-written work on a most significant subject. Her thesis is that the Bible is under Australian skin – quite […]
