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The earthquake with its accompanying tsunami and consequent nuclear meltdown has evoked much sadness as once again we look on helplessly. Coming in the wake of the loss of life in the Queensland floods and cyclone and the Christchurch earthquake, we are caused to reflect on the events themselves as we feel for, pray for and do what we can to help…
As a church, our weapon of war is the gospel. Mike Raiter A number of years ago I had the privilege of pastoring, for a short time, the Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan. My wife’s brother and his wife attend that church. They were there on Sunday morning, March 17th, 2002. The preacher was speaking from John 15, on the text,…
Last Sunday after the morning tea break we held our Annual Vestry Meeting. In that meeting we received reports from various ministries in the church, elected our office bearers for the coming year and also looked to the future direction and ministries of the parish. It is wonderful to be able to announce that last Sunday we, as a parish, decided to…
A journalist in the West Australian wrote that he had observed that, “no one ever blames God when they win the Lotto!” It was a good and apt comment. Why is it that we, in Australia, appear to be so self-consciously slow in giving God thanks or to calling out to him in times of trouble? I have noticed in recent disasters…
Believe it or not as hard as it seems, movies did exist before Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Julia Roberts were around. Back in the days of Silent Movies when Charlie Chaplin was all the rage, they used to put on Charlie Chaplin look alike competitions. Contestants would dress-up with run down suits, bowler hats, walking sticks and tiny moustaches. Charlie Chaplin,…
I know I have shared this with you before but in the last few weeks I have been listening to a lecture on the life of Jonathon Edwards and wanted to remind you of the powerful impact we have as parents on future generations. Parenting is a hard task but it is an extremely rewarding and important task. I trust that you…
I meet lots of people who used to go to church. They used to be in the choir, used to be an altar boy, used to go to Sunday school. It would be fair to say that more people used to follow Jesus than seem to now. For some of course they went but never understood what a relationship with God is…