Hi friends, The big news currently is the formation of our Wednesday Koinonia group – 2nd and 4th Wednesdays each month (except January) commencing February 8th, 10 am to lunch, at East Doncaster Baptist Church in Melbourne. It will be inclusive, focussed on Bible study, sharing our stories, praying for one another, and with a [...]

A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and other Servants (Upper Room, 1983) 1982-3 was the most difficult year of my professional life, recovering from a painful divorce from the church to which we had been called a year earlier. [1] But it was also the richest, spiritually. With no other pastoral interruptions, I prayed/read while [...]

In the 1960s I spent several years wandering around the campuses of Australia (as an InterVarsity Fellowship staffworker). Here’s an evangelistic broadsheet which was reproduced a six-figure number of times, and provided the raw material for a talk I gave in many universities and colleges and church youth-groups. It has an ‘undergraduate’ feel to it [...]

The church around the world is currently wrestling with a complex paradigm-shift: what to do with our LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender) sisters/brothers. In my view these four articles comprise all you need to know about what the Bible teaches on this important subject. (Rowland Croucher, December 2011). ~~~ Professor Lew Smedes (Ethicist): ‘Yes, it does seem to [...]