After a thorough search process, Ashfield Baptist Church has voted to issue a call to Mark Coleman, currently Associate Pastor at Gymea Baptist Church, to become our next Pastor.  We are delighted that Mark...

Thank you for sharing this dance. I will resist writing an essay about 2020, the year that shook every nation, every family, every institution and every church. I am so thankful to be part...

Continuing some thoughts on prayer… Perhaps you have heard this account of George Muller. On one of his voyages to America, the ship was enveloped in thick fog. The captain prudently slowed the ship...

Continuing some thoughts on prayer… Discussions at home have raised the reality of prayer being a case of sharing with God the desires of your heart, and at the same time, letting go of...

This tale I needed this week… A saint of Greece called Maxim, went as a young man to church and heard the reading in which it says we should pray unceasingly. He was struck...

We are, together, trying to navigate through times when plans are evaporating. For some, wedding plans, or holiday plans, or long-anticipated overseas trips, or just get-togethers. I am reminded of the words in James...

I read a story about the exiled Bishop who was expelled from Uganda under threat of death. He said, “I was asked how I would react if I were handed a gun and President...

Eddie Askew writes about his passion for collecting old things – antiques, old paintings, antiquarian books and so on. He remarks that booksellers have their own jargon, written in abbreviated form. One of the...

A scientist had studied bees for years. He’d weighed and measured and analysed. Finally, he decided that with the bee’s shape and weight, and the form of its wings, it was impossible for it...

Luke 9:23-25 Good News Translation (GNT) And he said to them all, “If you want to come with me, you must forget yourself, take up your cross every day, and follow me. For if you want...