Author Archives: The Briefing
Profitable business
Interchange
Final depression feedback
Interchange
If it wasn’t so serious
Full swing?
EMU
Packer’s Lifelong Love
Review
A book worth reading
Review
Hopelessly well informed
Interchange
Planting new churches
Interchange
One nation before God
Life
“God’s own country”.
So declared the recent front-page headline of our local newspaper, over a colour picture of a lone figure on a beautiful dusk-coloured beach. While I have often heard people refer to this area by that phrase, as front-page news it somehow feels official now: God lives in Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Can you feel it?
Thought
Jonathan Edwards is something of a celebrity in theological circles these days. He is revered by American writers as one of their greatest sons. In the controversy over charismatic ‘manifestations’ (such as in the Toronto Blessing), he has often been quoted as a reformed evangelical who was in favour of extraordinary emotional outpourings, and who promoted revival, with all its sometimes unruly accompaniments.