Author Archives: The Briefing

Are You Ready, Mr Music?

Everyday Ministry

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As I move from conference to convention, from houseparty to church, and as we try and select music for our own church meetings, I am consistently left with a sense of dissatisfaction about our present music.

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Lead balloon: Motherhood and Apple Pie

Life

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Lead balloons: ideas only slightly too outrageous to be taken seriously.

Recently, Mr Hawke has passed Mr Fraser as the second longest-serving Prime Minister in the history of Australia. It has not been as tumultuous a reign as Mr Whitlam’s, but Mr Hawke has led our nation through a time of rapid social change. Some of it has been for the better and some for the worse—as is the character of social change—but we can rejoice that we continue to be governed in peace and quietness, and are free to meet and to get on with our work of preaching the gospel. It is important that we follow the injunction of the apostle and continue to pray for those in authority.

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The Search for Worship

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Is the current call for a greater sense of worship a return to the faith of the New Testament, a faith which has been eroded by modern pluralism and materialism? Or is it a subtle, and therefore dangerous, distraction from the primary responsibilities of God’s people? (more…)

Where have all the false teachers gone?

Life

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At the Last Supper, Jesus warns his disciples that there will be constant conflict between those who are his and those who are of “the world”. He reminds them through his prayer that “the world has hated them because they are not of the world any more than I am of the world” (John 17:15).

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