Mark Buchanan’s new year reflection may seem to start a bit maudlin, but goes on to remind us that the change and decay which comes with passing years is meant to usher us from attachment to the temporal and direct us to the eternal. And the season of life which he describes also seems eerily …
As thoughts turn to the year ahead, Harry Reeder explains how the Christian can always know what God’s will is for their lives. Many believers are subtly drawn to solving the dilemma of doubts, confusion and fear by “reading the tea leaves” of life’s circumstances. This endeavor is usually pursued in the name of discerning …
Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 51 Q & A 106 Q What do we pray for in the sixth petition? A In the sixth petition, which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, we pray that God would either keep us from being tempted to sin,*1 or support and …
I wrote this article for publication in Mount Gambier’s local paper, The Border Watch last Friday. Recently our town council has purchased the derelict site of our former hospital, now vacant for some fifteen years. Tours around the grounds were recently conducted to enable locals to refamiliarise themselves with the precinct. Having only lived in …
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