Preparing for our church prayer meeting for tonight. This article from UK BBC seems surreal. A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had concluded that the adverts by Healing on the Streets (HOTS) – Bath, were …

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Tomorrow night mgpc will be holding our second First Sunday Prayer Service. This piece from Stanley Gale at the Chuck Colson Center For Christian Worldview points out why there’s no substitute for corporate prayer. Do you ever have trouble praying?  Maybe you don’t know what to say.  Or what you do say sounds like you …

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The big news from the Relations With Other Churches committee is the impending visit of the board of directors of the World Reformed Fellowship to Australia in April 2012. These folk will be guests of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, which has determined to host the visit in Sydney. (sigh. Where else?) The World Reformed …

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This is a brief overview of the annual meeting of the Australian Presbyterian World Mission Committee. Each year representatives of the state churches meet and consider policy issues arising from the operations of working groups which are based in New South Wales (Sydney). So our functional brief is review, advise and endorse our ongoing work …

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