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Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney. Show all posts
Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
We stayed for two nights in a hotel in Sydney while we were in Australia. one ofthe highlights was seeing the Hyde Park Barracks. This is where the convicts lived in the early days. The story is presented very well.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
It was good to see some of the paintings in the NSW art gallery in Sydney. we have mentioned one painting. I missed the John Constable but these caught my eye. All are in the opublic domain and gathered via Wikimedia Commons, except the Augustus John found here - https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/1134/
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| Tissot |
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| Edouard Detaille |
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| Cezanne |
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| Monet |
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| van Gogh |
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| Augustus John |
The Blue Mountains
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| The Three Sisters |
Before heading to Australia we were to make sure we visited the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney. We have dn ethat and it truly is breathtaking.
Maroubra Bay
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| Adam. J.W.C., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0> via Wikimedia Commons |
When I was about 15 I bought an album called Epsilon in Malaysian Pale. It was the second solo album by the German musician, Edgar Froese. I bought it on the basis of my appreciation for his band, Tangerine Dream. It consisted then, on vinyl, of one side with tthe album title and the other side with a track calle Maroubra Bay. I lilke both tracks though it was hard work at first, These are pretty obscure mellotron and synthesiser dominated tracks. I'd never given much thought to the titles but then here in Sydney I saw a bus headed for Maroubra Beach and it suddenly clicked. Apparently Tangerine Dream toured Australia back in the seventies and Maroubra Bay recalls the Sydney location, a sandy beach where people surf. Yesterday we were offered a final opportunity to see somwhere and so I jumped at the offer of a 26 minute car ride to Maroubra Bay. We had lunch in the Bay Hotel and watched the scene, noting the existence of the Matoubra Bay Garage.
You can hear the 1975 track here. Interestingly it was later re-issued backwads by mistake - not so very different. See here. Perhaps the best version, further research reveals is the 2004 remix, whcih introduces ocean sounds and other extras that take the track to an even higher level. Hear it here.
Lord's Day September 13 2026
This last Lord's Day I was again in Kogarah Bay Bible Church and St John's Park Baptist. I preached on the crown of thorns in the morning at KBBC and on Proverbs 24:15, 16 on th evening at SJPBC.
See here for the first sermon
https://kbbc.org.au/the-crown-of-thorns-john-191-3/
And for the second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSn2UAJK6xc
Midweek Meeting September 9 2026
For the third week running I was in the prayer meeting at Kogarah Bible Church. Again we were around twenty but not the same twenty for various reasons. The full time elder, Andrew Harrison, led. A bkessing to be there once again. One of the burdens for prayer was the war affected lands of Sudan, South Sudan and Lebanon.
Truth of the Gospel Conference Addresses Now Available
The addresses on the priesthood of all believers given recently in Sydney are now all available. The first is to be found here.
Lord's Day August 30 2026
So on Sunday I preached in the morning at Kogarah Bay Bible Church on Ezekiel 37:1-14, the valley of dry bones and in the evening at St John's Park Baptist on a text, Genesis 3:15. St John's Park has the larger building bu the congregations were similar in size at around 70. Both are Reformed Baptist, though in the morning we used the arch conservative hymn book, Christian Worship, accompanied by piano, and in the evening a band with drums and bass led the singing. What a privilege to preach the Word here on the other side of the world. I should have said that we had an adult Bibe study at KBBC before I preached, from Basil Yakoubi, introducing studies on the 1689.
Seeing de nephew in Seedeney
One of the delights of being here in Sydney has been seeing my Adelaide based nephew, Will.
Truth of the Gospel Conference Sydney
It was my great privilege last Saturday to be at St John's Park Baptist Church here in Sydney speaking at the annual conference that the church arranges with Kogarah Bay Bible Church. I spoke three times on the Priesthood of all believers with a question session at the end. There must have been about 150 present from different churches. We had lunch together and there was plenty of time for interaction. It was a great day.
38th Wedding Anniversary
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It was our wedding anniversary yesterday (27th) and we spent time being guided around Botany Bay and Crunolla here in Sydney. Beautiful. Just as so much stems from Cook reaching Botany Bay so a great deal stems from the day, aged 18, when I first walked into the manse front room in Buarth Road, Aber.
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