I love the statement “total commitment on the essentials, and liberty on the non-essentials”. There are some essential truths we MUST believe, but there are others we need to be flexible on. The most important essential I believe is that because of Adam & Eve’s disobedience to God’s command in the garden of Eden, we have inherited a sinful nature from our first parents. We […]

I have been thinking much lately about what I believe, and how my thinking and beliefs have changed over the years.. The Bible tells us the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth, and after being a believer for 64+ years,, with my personal study of the Scriptures, earning 2 degrees, and much interaction with other seekers of truth, have brought me to some conclusions, […]

I see it is 20 days since my last blog, much has happened in that time. We left Melbourne on Tuesday 12th to fly to Singapore overnight, then back to Bali to conduct the wedding of one of my spiritual sons. The wedding went well, it was so good to catch up with numerous friends. We flew back to Singapore, and spent a week there, […]

In these early days of 2016, and prior to our leaving for Indonesia and Singapore, for ministry and R&R, I want to echo the words of the psalmist in Psalm 37:25 & 26 “I have been young, and now am old; Yet, I have never seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants  begging bread.  He is ever merciful (hallelujah) and his descends are blessed”. After over […]

In my last blog I wrote about the “forgotten message, I could have put it another way, saying that because of certain “toxic” emphases and imbalance the awesome truth of holy living is forgotten or totally obscured because of these emphases. So, I ask the question, “What is the Australian Church’s greatest need?  I believe it is revival. Immediately some people misinterpret that word, and […]