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The Pulse – July/August 2016 Issue

July – August 2016 edition of The Pulse, news magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales is available at the PCNSW website for download. Open the PDF here. Features: Gospel Opportunities In Our Schools: Part II Assembly 2016 Education Our Way Paul’s Plans You Can Say No ….

The Pulse – May/June 2016 Issue

May/June 2016 edition of The Pulse, news magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales is available at the PCNSW website for download. Open the PDF here. Features: Gospel opportunities in our PCNSW schools Moderator’s Federal Election Warning Surrogacy All In The (Barnes) Family From The Bible Celebrating A New Church Plant At Green Square ….

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…

Wee Waa NSW 2388

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…

The Cross

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…

The Pulse – March/April 2016 Issue

March – April 2016 edition of The Pulse, news magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales is available at the PCNSW website for download. Open the PDF here. Features: Kids on camp A word from JEOF 30 Years in (the) office Scots on a mission Abuse at home ….

The Pulse – December 2015/January 2016 Issue

December 2015 – January 2016 edition of The Pulse, news magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales is available at the PCNSW website for download. Open the PDF here. Features: Christmas Pitt Wood Opens Christian School Growth Refugees ….