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…

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…

Wee Waa’s boom years were the mid 1960’s to the mid 1980’s, there was plenty of water, and cotton, as an Australian industry, was in its infancy. American farmers led by Paul Kahl and Frank Hadley, two Christian men from California, were instrumental in establishing the industry, centred on Wee Waa. Wee Waa Presbyterian was…

Toplady’s hymn expresses it well: “Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling; Naked turn to you for dress; Helpless look to you for grace; Foul I to the fountain fly; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.” By dying on that cross, Jesus won our salvation. To do so, Jesus had…