Articles
From Sin to Therapy: How the Church Lost the New Birth
In 1843 the Church of Scotland split. Evangelical ministers who insisted a person must be born again stood against the Moderates of the Church of Scotland who preached moralistic sermons. The same is type of Moderate preaching can be heard in any Church where sin is portrayed as brokenness.
11/05/2026
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Sermon Reviews
Baalism in the Pulpit: Covenantal Drift in Contemporary Presbyterian Preaching.
This article demonstrates how preaching with the Presbyterian Church of Victoria has an emphasis that resembles the Baals of the Old Testament. Once the attraction of the Baals to the Israelites is realized, the drift in the five sermons featured in this article become clearly apparent.
11/04/2026
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Devotions
From Robert Leighton's Meditations on Psalm 4.
This devotion is taken from the works of Robert Leighton (1611 - 1684) an ordained Presbyterian minister and later, Archbishop of Glasgow. His thoughts upon the Psalm ring as true today as I am sure they did when he first wrote his meditations.
23/02/2026
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