Prepared for our local paper, The Border Watch. Peak-hour traffic is relative. In Mount Gambier it’s the seven or eight cars in front of me waiting at the Jubilee Highway – Wehl Street roundabout. In Brisbane it’s nose to tail traffic for kilometres for three hours in the morning and three hours in the evening. …
Good words from Graham Nicholson at the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church blog on the danger of reducing response to rules. An excerpt: When the heart is focused on keeping rules as rules and not as a response to God or his grace, it is necessarily focused on one’s self and is blinded to true holiness. Jesus …
I hope if you attend Christian worship tomorrow you won’t be subjected to a lesson in moral improvement, an exhortation about how God can use you by your following a list of steps of moral improvements drawn from Bible narrative turned into object lessons. I trust you’ll hear about God’s redemptive love, which always achieves …
David Cook, current moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia has posted the first of three articles on areas of systematic theology that he believes need special attention in order that the people of God may live out the freedom Christ has earned for them. The first is on the place of the law in …
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