From the keyboard of Robert Benn, moderator of the 2007 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and received through the PresENews email network: Dear friends, On October 17th, this year, in Rome, Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint, is to be “canonized”. Of course we are interested in this, because some of our tax …
Just attended the funeral of a 99 year old saint, conducted by our local Lutheran pastor. The Gospel was clearly, winsomely and compellingly proclaimed. What a privilege to minister in a town where every Christian church is pastored, by born-again, Bible believing, Gospel affirming leaders.
Over the last weekend I listened to someone who was once very prominent in Australian Christianity as he visited our town. He had a lot to say that questioned his old understanding of the Christian faith, particularly songs that he had written. I think the critique of the distinctives of the movement that he was …
From Dane Ortlund’s blog, Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology: Luther Defines the Gospel In his ‘Preface to the New Testament,’ Luther writes: This gospel of God or New Testament is a good story and report, sounded forth into all the world by the apostles, telling of a true David who strove with sin, death, and the devil, and …
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