preaching and ministry training

Atomic fears

CS Lewis, ‘Living in an Atomic Age’, in Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays 1948  [Excerpt]… In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?”…

Annual review

Annual ‘godliness and good ministry review’ For the glory of God Peter Adam It is wise for people in gospel ministry to get feedback, to increase accountability, to gain wisdom from others about our lives…

This site is being built!

This place on the internet will become a space for Peter Adam’s teaching, talks and wit! It will take us a little while to get the site into good order but we thought you’d enjoy…

Create in me a clean heart

Dear friends and fellow-workers, Time for a medical! Let’s test your life, actions, words. Here are the three tests; please administer them to yourself. ‘The mouth speaks what the heart is full of’ Matthew 12:34….

To the praise of God’s glory

Dear friends, Like many older people, I often reflect on the shape of the life I have lived. This January is significant for me. It is 40 years since I returned from England to come…

The extraordinary ordinary

In extraordinarily ordinary lives, we live to the praise of God’s glory!!! Dear friends, we tend to look for God’s glory in extraordinary lives, great achievements, significant success in ministry, wonderful progress in church growth,…

A praying church

Dear friends, Here is a vision of a praying church: This, then, is how you should pray:  ‘Our Father in heaven,  hallowed be your name,  your kingdom come,  your will be done,  on earth as…

Lift up your eyes

Dear friends, Greetings from Melbourne, where we are still coping with Covid 19 restrictions, and many of us are stressed. What should we do when life and ministry are unpredictable, complicated, stressful, demanding, and exhausting?…

Do you love God? Do you love the Lord Jesus?

Dear friends, When I arrived at St Thomas’ Richmond in December 1967 as a humble theological student to preach my first sermon, to four people, a small girl met me as I got out the…