Brian Croft features this pearler about how to spend year one in a new parish (especially for first time pastors): “Preach the Word. Love the people. Don’t change anything.” You can read the rest here to find all the necessary qualifications. 2004 in Mount Gambier Presbyterian was pretty similar to 2003. My predecessor, Rod Waterhouse, …
We received this item of correspondence at our Presbytery meeting last night. So, official notice of David Cook’s election as Moderator-General nominate for the 2013 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia has been transmitted. You’d think as the new Clerk of Presbytery that I might have known that beforehand. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. …
Yesterday’s post managed to elicit a comment from a friend from Melbourne relating that their Presbytery had been told that David Cook has been elected to serve as Moderator-General of the 2013 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. David is currently part-time assistant to the minister of the Chinese Presbyterian Church in Sydney, having …
Joel Beeke is a pastor from the USA who is also a theological teacher and prolific author. In this series of four posts he writes about the legacy of Johanna Beeke, his mother, recently deceased at the age of 92. Post 1: Prayerful. A sample… I also remember overhearing a conversation at a church gathering, …
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