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Courage and faith
I saw a touching portrait of personal courage and faith over the weekend. In their HSC (12) Year, a student is facing a protracted stay in hospital after a similar stay in hospital in the previous year. The first thing that struck me was their personal courage. Thinking back to my own Year 12 experience, the year was a blur of assessment tasks, exams, and memories in the last year of high school. To be
Free to forgive
I read Corrie ten Boom's life story The Hiding Place when I was a boy. I remember being moved by her family's courage in sheltering Jews during the Nazi occupation, until they were betrayed and arrested in 1944. The family was separated and sent to prison camps. Her father died in prison, and her nephew and brother also lost their lives. Corrie's bedroom, where refugees were hidden. In prison, Corrie was still able
KJV: No honour in error
Over the last several weeks I've published three posts celebrating the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version. KJV: Shape of my life KJV: Literary masterpiece KJV: Still translating These posts express my genuine respect for this monumental translation. I have experienced great joy in writing them. I could have written many more and may still do so at some point. But it is with great soberness that I compose this fourth
Pink in Sydney
A.W. Pink is probably best known for writing The Sovereignty of God. Written in 1918, it was a controversial but strong argument for God's supremacy. Virtually unknown in his lifetime, he speaks through his writings today. Biographer Iain Murray claims he was "one of the most influential evangelical authors in the second half of the twentieth century." After some ministry in the US and England, Pink spent three years in Sydney as a preacher and