(Rev) David Burke (Moderator-General, Presbyterian Church of Australia) December 2024 Dear friends in the PCA family, Christmas greetings! As the local economy tightens, our instinct is to grasp. We tighten our grip on what we have and reach for more, more and more. To grasp is not the way of our God. He opens his hand to give. In creation …
Greetings from the Moderator of the General Assembly and his wife
A Christmas reflection – Peter Phillips, Moderator December 2022 In his recent Christmas Message Rev Dr Peter Barnes, Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church confesses that ‘As a pastor, I always found preaching at Christmas more difficult than I perhaps should have.’ One of the reasons for this difficulty, which is not exclusive to Dr Barnes, but common to every …
A Christmas/New Year reflection
Lorraine and I wish you, the members and friends of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, a ‘merry Christmas and a happy New Year’! May the Lord who has been with us be with us still, according to his promise, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ Peter and Lorraine Phillips Christmas, like happiness, is ‘different things to different people’. …