On Saturday, 6th May 2023, at Westminster Abbey, the world watched on not only as a man was crowned, but as Jesus Christ was declared repeatedly to be “King of kings and Lord of lords”.
This is a glorious title that the Father has bestowed upon the Son, and we …
In early 2016 our family first made the move into the Revesby district as I began study at Christ College. By God’s grace we were able to find a home large enough for our (then) four children, but it certainly came with its quirks. One such eccentricity was what we …
In 2020 there was widespread outrage in the UK when the rainbow flag was adopted as a sign of unity and support for the National Health Service in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. The concern stemmed from a belief that this symbol somehow “belonged” to the LGBT “community”.
Even …
It is a startling and counter-intuitive thought that Christ Jesus came into the world to usher in hostility and trouble and controversy. Surely we have enough of that already. Yet He tells us clearly that we are not to think that He came to bring peace on earth, but, no, …
On Sunday 3rd February 1788, just one week after the First Fleet anchored in Sydney Cove, Rev. Richard Johnson stood in the open air, under a large tree, to proclaim God’s word from Psalm 116.12:
“What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?”
This was …
In Ecclesiastes 3 Solomon writes, “For everything there is a season”. This is one of those phrases that we most likely associate with a funeral or memorial service, yet Solomon’s words have far greater depth and reach to them. At their heart the wise king writes of the inevitability of …
As a pastor, I always found preaching at Christmas more difficult than I perhaps should have. Most of the preachable material comes from just four chapters: Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2. Even then, Matthew begins with 17 verses of a genealogy, and Luke has a fair amount on Zechariah and …
As the Vandals threatened Hippo in 430, Augustine – who was close to the end of his own life – confessed to his congregation: ‘I am a long-winded old man’. Throughout his life, he had lamented often enough that ‘My own speech almost always displeases me.’ Looking back over nearly …
Often we find that works on history manage to incorporate the word ‘crisis’ into their titles. One does not have to read many such books before it seems that all of human history has been a series of crises – only the names have changed, and some details, but that …
On the rare occasion one hears the Bible quoted in public today, a likely text is: ‘Judge not, that you be not judged’ (Matt.7:1). In the world, this is often followed by a sermon explaining how we cannot say that anything is right or wrong. In the Bible, Jesus takes …
