Presbyterian Men and Women: Mark Powell replies to Dave Woolcott
David Woolcott (DW) recently submitted a piece to AP in response to Mark Powell’s (MP) article titled ‘Presbyterian Men and Women’. It is our hope and prayer that this response […]
Biblical Men and Women? A Response to Mark Powell
Mark Powel wrote an article entitled ‘Presbyterian Men and Women’, and this is hopefully a respectful response. In the PCNSW we allow female elders, but this is being questioned. It […]
Recognising True Friends
Recognising Our True Friends: On Criticism of the Institutional Church “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy” (Proverbs 27:6). Sometimes the best service […]
Governance as a problem
Risk Aversion, Compliance and the Church: Some Practical Suggestions In his article published on 24 July 2024, David Robertson argued that a form of Erastianism is taking over the contemporary […]
Psychosocial Harm of God’s Word
The Psychosocial Harm of God’s Word “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” This is […]
Joy in Evening Worship
SURPRISING JOY IN EVENING WORSHIP A person is more likely to be convinced of a good idea when, as well as understanding it, he also experiences it. I could tell […]
The Gospel is for All People
State Governments across Australia are introducing legislation which will make it illegal for Christians to call on people to repent of their sin and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. A […]
Regulative or Normative?
Closing the Gap – A Better way to Connect Bible and Practice Presbyterian, Anglican or a Third Way? Tony Payne is a fascinating thinker, stimulating writer and gracious speaker. He […]
Leading Gathered Worship
Leading Gathered Worship ‘Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart’ – Jeremiah 3:15 Some of the ways in which we worship God on Sundays seem normal to […]
Highlights from the 2023 GAA
Every three years the General Assembly of Australia (GAA) meets for a week-long conference to discuss business relating to the federal church. Whereas the various state assemblies focus on governance […]
Would John Stott have Continued on as an Anglican?
One of the largest evangelical Anglican churches in the UK, St Helen’s Bishopsgate, recently announced that it will no longer accept episcopal oversight from the Church of England’s House of […]
A VISIT TO GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A VISIT TO THE GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY, October 2022 As Moderator during the covid pandemic, I visited a few places in person – notably Hurstville for the ordination […]
THE STATE OF SOCIETY AND THE NEED FOR PRAYER
THE STATE OF SOCIETY AND THE NEED FOR PRAYER The Christian faith requires us to look with realism at the state of the world and with hope to the […]
CHRISTIANITY AND LIBERALISM
Do Progressives and Biblical Christians agree on 90% of Doctrines? Professor Dorothy Lee of the Trinity Divinity College, the University of Melbourne, told the Anglican General Synod that all the […]
SPEAKING APPROPRIATELY
SPEAKING APPROPRIATELY Near the end of his short epistle, Jude tells his readers to respond with sensitivity to others, according to their situation (Jude 22-23). Alas, the text is something […]