As previously noted, the Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship gathered in Sydney over the past couple of weeks for various functions. As a church which has been humbled by the generosity of welcome which we have received when we’ve travelled abroad, Mount Gambier Presbyterian took the opportunity to invest in welcoming these brothers and …
Expanded Hearts And New Seasons. All it took was a phone call. Ben rang at 4.02 pm on Monday. The call lasted one minute. A boy. Born at 3.01pm. Elijah Gary Loef. 7 pound 3 oz. 52 cm long. Mother and baby well. We exchanged a few words more, and then Ben had more phone …
I’ll never forget the feeling; a small funeral early in my pastoral ministry, perhaps one of the first few I conducted. Afterwards a couple came up to me and said something to me that has informed every funeral I’ve conducted since. Brian Croft’s post reminded me again. Sunday evening, I preached a funeral of an …
These observations from Justin Buzzard about the contemporary yet timeless nature of idols and idolatry are just as apt for those of us in Australian culture. Everyone has to live for something and if that something isn’t the one true God, it will be a false God–an idol. An idol is anything more important to …
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