As we contemplate life and God, it strikes us that so many things are beyond us. Even the knowledge of tomorrow is more than we can know (James 4:13-16). We are like young children staring into the night sky and wondering at its grandeur. We are called upon to worship …
In the minds of many people today, faith and reason are polar opposites. Richard Dawkins, for example, maintains that ‘Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.’ We are meant to believe that no Christian has any reason to be a Christian; it is …
Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes
I think it was Harold Wilson who first commented that a week was a long time in politics. Given the present decrepit state of Australian politics – and for that matter, Western politics in general – even a day can seem too long. The stories change …
In May 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell from Pennsylvania was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder of three children intended for abortion but born alive and then murdered, and one count of involuntary manslaughter for failing to properly look after a woman who had gone through an abortion. …
In one of Scripture’s most graphic portrayals of the nature of sin, the prophet Jeremiah warns us that ‘The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?’ (Jer.17:9) In one sense, sin is a straightforward: ‘Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practises lawlessness; …
As Isaac Watts surveyed the wondrous cross, he was overwhelmed by what it meant for the eternal Son of God to become a man and die the death of a criminal. The Prince of glory died that sinners might live! So, wrote Watts,
Were the whole realm of nature mine,…
Review of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, Pittsburgh: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2012.
It is all too rare that we read a book wherein there is so much refreshment and encouragement. Until her conversion, which she describes as a train wreck, Mrs Butterfield was Dr …
It is commonplace to hear experts of some kind or another inform their grateful hearers that the Bible is a collection of errors and contradictions. When asked to give some examples of these contradictions, such experts are usually not so forthcoming. Only once have I been trapped in seemingly endless …
Review of John Dickson, Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons, Zondervan: Kindle edition, 2012.
Recently a number of works have appeared from the professedly complementarian camp which manage to open the door yet wider to an egalitarian approach to gender roles. The articulate and affable John Dickson …
Mark Twain is supposed to have quipped that ‘No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.’ The situation may be even worse if there is a Senate Committee trying to drum up work for Anti-Discrimination Boards. At present, Australia has a Senate Committee looking …
