Tag Archives: Church

A Trove of Memories

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

Yesterday I reflected on the importance of local museums to keep the culture and history of an area alive. Some countries, such as Sweden, do this very well. Spiritually this is important too. In the OT in Joshua Chapter 4 … Continue reading →

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Jesus, Our Personal Trainer – Not!

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

“Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”   Joshua 5:13 Lord’s Day 1 Heidelberg Catechism 1. Q. What is your only comfort in life and death? … Continue reading →

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Memories of Church No.4 – Conflict and Conclusions

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

The last part – for the time being. As I grew up, particularly in my teen years, I began to realise that Christians weren’t perfect and conflict was an inevitable part of church life. It became obvious that the words … Continue reading →

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Memories of Church No.3 – Methodists and Mayhem

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

This is part 3 of my early recollections of church. In the mid 1960′s the church to which I now belonged rented a Methodist church that only had a few members left. After a couple of years we purchased the … Continue reading →

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Memories of Church No. 2 or Coffee, Calvinism and Cigars

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Yesterday I started my reflections on growing up in a migrant church in the 1950s.  Today the story continues … By my mid teen years we were worshiping in Geelong. This congregation, which was much larger, did not have its own building yet and … Continue reading →

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Memories of Church No 1.

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Some of my earliest memories centre on Church. In our small migrant community in Ocean Grove during the mid 1950s, our kitchen was the biggest room. So every Sunday the Reformed people would meet at our home. Sometimes a sermon … Continue reading →

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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Posted on February 22, 2013 by

My wife, who is passionate about children’s ministry, introduced me to a study that I had not previously heard about. In 2005 Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton wrote a book entitled: Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of America Teenagers. … Continue reading →

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The Morning Star of the C18th Welsh Revival

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

It is amazing the way that God works. Forces are arrayed against His plans only to be outwitted time and again. This occurred (once again) in the years leading up to the Methodist Revival in Wales in the C18th. An Anglican minister, … Continue reading →

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Theology and the Violin

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

My dad, a violin player, of whom one frustrated professor of theology once said, “One stupid man can ask more questions than 100 theologians can answer,” had lots of questions about the Bible and what it said. He loved God but … Continue reading →

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People I Admire

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

This is the first in an occasional series entitled, “People I Admire”. My friends, a married couple who have seen more than five  decades race past, have not always had it easy. On a number of occasions they have been … Continue reading →

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