John 4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither...

GCCB Devotional 12 November 2017 “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed….”  7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not...

(This week I’m turning the keyboard over to David Cook, past Moderator General of the PC Australia — Pastor John) When abortion law reform was introduced through Australian State Parliaments in the 1970’s, it was done so, ‘under strict medical circumstances’. Most of us believed this was a necessary reform...

Ephesians 1.11-12 [11] In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, [12] so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory....

While we are saved, one by one, by the Lord in His infinite mercies, we are not saved to live alone. He has placed us in His Church, the Body of Christ. Our lives are to be lived in community with one another. We are to encourage and build up...

Tuesday, 31 October 2017, marks the 500th Anniversary what historians consider the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Dr. Martin Luther, a member of the Augustinian order, and a theology instructor at Wittenberg University in what is now Germany, posted 95 Theses, or points of discussion, concerning the Roman Catholic doctrine...

“Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3.18 ESV) God’s almighty and awesome power at work in those who believe, we’re told in the passage above. We have a new reality in our Lord Jesus. Paul is telling Titus...

[23] And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. [24] And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. [25] And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are...

  Luke 6.31 “And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.” (ESV) Most of the world’s religions have something that sounds like the words of Jesus, but they tend to cast it negatively. They prohibit you from doing something unfavourably to others. Which is...

This first verse in Matthew 7 is one we hear quite a lot these days. It often is used when we bring up the biblical standard for conduct, and when someone disagrees with that standard, it is hurled at us as some sort of “chin music” short bowl. “Who are...