few weeks. We leave for vacation tomorrow, we are having a week, at Merimbula on the coast in Southern New South wales, then driving on to Sydney to celebrate Christmas with our family returning home around 29th December. On Tuesday 12th January we fly to Bali (via Singapore) to conduct the wedding of a young man I have mentored for a number of years, then […]

I have never been a part of an historic Mainline denomination, so have never understood or were interested in a Lectionary type of church service program. Recently,  I was asked if I would preach on the topic designated fro the 2nd Sunday in Advent, which happens to be HOPE. As a nonconformist I have basically only celebrated Christmas, Easter and Pentecost Sunday. I thought I had […]

I recently heard a series of sermons on King David, the teacher seemed to major on his adultery and the murder of Uriah, and that David  had a constant struggle with sin after that. I am not downplaying David’s sins, but want to emphasise the power of repentance. Repentance means to turn around  or change, it means: A change of mind  Recognising what is a sin […]

I know reminiscing is a sign of old age, but surely it gives a person the opportunity to look back and see the hand of God on a person’s life. In October last I celebrated the fact I had been a born again believer for 64 years, I was a product of developing alcoholic parents without any Christian influences in my life, yet somehow I […]

Verse 12 begins with blessing  (praising and magnifying God  which we can and should do continuously), then the Psalmist prays and asks the Lord to Teach him God’s statutes. When we are born again and the Holy Spirit comes into our lives we have an “Internal Tutor” He wants to lead us into all truth, He wants to write His laws on the tablet of […]