Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
June 2007
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Calvin commented that the mind of man is ‘a perpetual factory of idols’. Certainly, people can usually think of a multitude of excuses not to believe in Christ. Crusaders against God tend to be rationalising their …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
May 2007
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
Together with Timothy, Paul addressed his epistle to the Philippians to ‘all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons’ (Phil.1:1). The saints were not the super Christians on the …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
April 2007
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
One can easily tell when Easter is upon us in the West – it is that time of the year when the stores are trying to sell millions of chocolate eggs and when the media will …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
March 2007
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
John Newton once commented: ‘If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had thought to meet …
Peter Barnes | Bible Study | Download : Bible Studies – Nehemiah
Nehemiah, while a cupbearer in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes I, heard that the walls around Jerusalem had been broken down. The king of Persia allowed Nehemiah to journey to Jerusalem in 445 B.C., and serve …
There are good reasons for rejecting the diagnosis that the problem with religion is that it discriminates, and the proposed cure that it not be allowed to discriminate any longer.
1. The whole approach is putting Australian law on a radically different basis.
Christianity teaches its followers to think in …
In 2001 the state Labor government in Victoria passed the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, which made it an offence to offend, insult or humiliate anyone on racial or religious grounds. This was yet another triumph in the art of carrying out persecution while claiming the moral high ground. On …
Peter Barnes | Bible Study | Download : Bible Studies – Matthew
The scholarly consensus now – which may not be worth much – is that Mark was the first Gospel written, and that Matthew abridged it but then added his own material to make it longer. The so-called Griesbach …
The Westminster Confession in chapter X on Effectual Calling declares that ‘Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth: so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the …
In 1971 Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones reminisced on Welsh radio: ‘I shall never forget myself travelling in a train back from Plymouth to London once. We arrived at Newton Abbot and a woman with two small girls came into the compartment where I was sitting. It was obvious that the children …
