Each week we focus our church family prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for opportunities to share the gospel. ‘At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ,...

Each week we focus our church family prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for the gospel (today being what is often remembered as ‘Reformation Sunday’). ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone...

Each week we focus our church family prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for the spread of the gospel among Muslims. ‘Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father...

Each week we focus our worship service and Grace Community Group prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for the advance of the gospel in our community. ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to...

Prayer Focus Each week we focus our worship service and Grace Community Group prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for the proclamation of the gospel. ‘“Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and...

Each week we focus our worship service and Grace Community Group prayers on a topic or theme. This week, our prayer focus is for open doors for the gospel ‘At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare...

This week we’re running a Bible Holiday Club as an outreach to our local community. The theme is ‘Rock Star’, which (besides making a great excuse to play great music and dress up) is designed to  contrast Jesus with the ‘stars’ of this world. Where the star only wants to...

(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...

Today is the last day to register for the Australian national postal survey on the redefinition of marriage.(If you haven’t registered, do it here: https://check.aec.gov.au. Do it now!). As a foreigner, I am not eligible to respond. I sure wish I could though. Much has been written about the social...

In our recent series through Matthew’s gospel, our Grace Community Group has been interested in an apparent tension between the references to “pearls” in Matthew 7:6 and Matthew 13:45-46. This post is an attempt to reconcile those two references. It’s believed that the modern though clichéd idiom “pearls of wisdom”...