First Sunday prayer service at mgpc tomorrow night. J.D. Greear provides an extended quote from Charles Spurgeon. An excerpt: Keep up the prayer-meeting, whatever else flags; it is the great business evening of the week, the best service between the Sabbaths; be you sure to make it so. If you find that your people cannot …

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Maybe I should just give up on NRL. Queensland to win next Wednesday. Nice to see Brisbane Lions win in Jonathan Brown’s farewell game. Tipping North Melbourne or Adelaide is an invitation to frustration. NRL (last round 2/6; season tally 65/116) Manly Saint George Easts Penrith Souths AFL (last round 7/9; season tally 85/126) Hawthorn …

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My pastoral letter in this month’s edition of MGPC’s newsletter. When I was in Sydney last week David Cook asked what I’d be preaching on when I returned home. I replied Hebrews 12:25-29, and Psalm 88. In response to Psalm 88, David commented ‘That’s the dark one.’ And so it is. I won’t reproduce it …

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Michael Milton cites this stirring observation by David Livingstone about his labours in Africa. These words are a challenge and an invitation that rings across the generations: “People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back …

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