This week’s prayer focus is on the COVID-19 situation. Pray for the authorities running our countries and cities. Pray for the medical teams treating the sick: strength, stamina, wisdom, compassion, courage. Pray for their families as they deal with the stress and risks as well. Pray for the men, women,...
Dearest Jesus, how will I ever be able to admire you enough, much less adore you, for the wonderful way you stooped to our level? What an image you used in the vine to illustrate your lowliness and meekness! It reminds us also of your fruitfulness and love for your...
Our denomination, Westminster Presbyterian Church, has renewed publication of its Magazine, The Messenger. You can download the Winter 2019 edition here.
“But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren” (Luke 22:32, ESV) The beginning and ending of our orbit around the Sun each year is somewhat arbitrary. You have to pick a point where to begin, and...
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:18, ESV) First off, let me encourage you to not think, oh — this is only for those who are in their older years. This is written with...
We’re pleased to announce our 2018 Summer Bible Conference! Join us as we hear Dr. Joseph A. Pipa, Jr., President of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Greenville, South Carolina, USA! Dr. Pipa will be preaching on “Christ’s Prayer for the Church” from John 15 & 16. We will have two messages...
“Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear…” (Isaiah 59:1 ESV) Is there a person or group of people that have been so wicked, so stubbornly resistant to the Gospel, that we have considered them a “write-off”? These would...
(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...
In times gone by, much emphasis was placed on each person preparing their hearts before coming to the Lord’s Supper table. This came from taking 1 Corinthians 11:27-32 seriously, which speaks of the need for self-examination and self-judgement, to make the most of the Lord’s Supper itself and to avoid...
Shock. Anger. Sadness. Compassion. Anxiety. Bitterness. Hatred. These are some of the feelings I’m sure many of us have had watching the news over the past year, whether we’re hearing about terrorism in Paris or Palmyra, shootings in Sydney or St Louis, violence motivated by religion or racism, warmongering, the...