Some of the smaller and (to some) more obscure books in the Bible are also where we find some of the most beautiful hidden treasures. Paul’s letter to Titus is one of them. Even if you don’t know Titus from Nahum you probably do know the famous verse: Titus 1:12 One of Crete’s own prophets has […]
So I guess I have to write something about what is quite possibly one of the most monumentally enormous political events that many of us have lived through. When I arrived home on Wednesday afternoon I insisted that my older children stopped what they were doing and watched a bit of the TV coverage with […]
Team Ould are back from holiday, raring to go. One of the joys of flying around the world visiting family is the chance to watch a number of movies… The only chance we ever get to watch recent movies! (@ SQ 211 SIN to SYD) https://t.co/DAKagyMOXb pic.twitter.com/AR4NeSYbPq— David Ould ن (@davidould) July 14, 2016 One […]
published in an edited form at The Gospel Coalition, Australia Like me you have more than likely been staggered by the tragedy of the nightclub murders in Orlando, Florida. It seems inconceivable that someone could go to such lengths, sink to such depths of depravity, as to plan and then so callously execute his scheme to […]
One of the great things about running a website like this is that you start to build up a community of like-minded readers and commenters. Many of you are Christians and share the same concerns that I have and, in some way, feel part of what’s going on here. With that in mind I want […]
As Tevye, the central character of Fiddler on the Roof, considers the upheaval going on all around him (not least with his own daughters’ marriages) he turns to his wife and asks a simple, but penetrating question, Do you love me? It seems an absurd question to ask today. How could these two have even […]
ANZAC Day 2015 is a particularly poignant moment for Australia and New Zealand; 100 years since the ill-fated Gallipoli landings. It’s not uncommon to hear people observe that “ANZACism” has become something of a national religion. The increased numbers of young Australians travelling abroad in the 1980s led to more and more turning up on […]
In the last few weeks a bit of a debate has kicked off here in Sydney over the difficult question of domestic violence (“DV”) and our response as evangelicals, and particularly as Sydney Anglicans, to it. It all began with an article by journalist Julia Baird in the smh, “Submission is a fraught mixed message […]
In my regular Bible reading with the Ouldlets we have reached Joshua. It’s a cracker of a book, beginning with the approach to Jericho, its defeat, and the subsequent conquest of the Land. At the start of chapter 7 we came across Achan… Josh. 7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. Achan […]
Words are incredibly powerful things. From the very beginning it is words that have exerted enormous influence in our universe. Gen. 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. The power of words is, in some way, linked to the power of the one speaking. I can’t stand in my darkened office […]
