Today at our worship services at Nelson and Allendale East we sang Search Me, O God. With the advent of the Rejoice! Hymnbook in the late 1980s the hymn Search Me, O God came into wider use among Presbyterian Churches throughout Australia. The familiarity which most singers would have had with the tune Maori, (an …
The following outline is provided by my colleague, Ian Touzel. Every eight weeks I take the services at two smaller churches that are part of our parish. Tomorrow we’ll be examining Mark 6:14-29. But for those of you following Romans, here’s Ian’s outline: 1) God’s righteousness revealed in Christ’s cross. 2) God’s righteousness defended against …
The second test of the Ashes series is on. Some people don’t understand a game which can be played over five days and finish with no result. Some people do. I love the game and all its varied skills. One of the better days of my life was spent at a test match in Brisbane. …
Timothy Keller begins The Prodigal God (Hodder & Staughton, 2008) with two definitions for the word prodigal: recklessly extravagent and having spent everything. In developing his exploration of Jesus’ parable of the father and two sons (found in Luke 15) Keller strives to focus on the father figure and what we learn about him and …
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