“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23, ESV)

Posts from April 2016

100, 500 Years

There is a college in Oxford dating back to 1379 which has the audacity of being called, New College. Travelling in the UK, one has a sense of one’s own immortality being surrounded by buildings 500, 600 or even more years old. In Australia, 100 is quite an achievement and 150 is remarkable since white…

Emergency Assembly

I have just been to an Emergency Meeting of the NSW General Assembly, which met at Roseville Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, 6 April 2016. The issue, to test the appropriateness of the NSW Trustees’ suspension of the Council of Scots College, Sydney and to appoint a Management Committee to govern the College until the 2017…

You won’t be late

I have had punctuality bred into me, even now, if I am meeting my sisters, I know they will be at least 10 minutes early and sometimes I am even earlier. Some people are habitually late, I am habitually early. Oscar Wilde said that he was always late on principle, the principle being that punctuality…

Pray for Sydney University

It is an unfortunate time when we need to be asked to pray for one of the oldest universities in Australia, which formerly carried a strong theological basis. It has progressed through a feminist and homosexual revolution, and now its next movement seems to be eliminating discrimination. This should be a good thing, but it is being taken to the extreme. A recent change in the…