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Gavin Lawrie

Press Service International

Gavin Lawrie is a retired Barrister and Solicitor from Tweed Heads NSW Australia and author of the book: 'THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION: Uncovering The Faulty Science Of Dawkins' Attack On Creationism'. He is married to Jan with two adult children and they are grandparents.

Gavin Lawrie's previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/gavin-lawrie.html

  • Insights and wisdom

    Rev. Tim Keller’s story: In the 1980s he moved with wife and three young sons to Manhattan, New York “to begin a new church for a largely non-churchgoing population…being told it was a fool’s errand.

  • How Deep the Father’s Love for Us…

    Somewhat morbidly perhaps, I sat down to type into a computer folder the songs and Bible verses I had in mind for my…funeral. 

  • The final curtain

    In the WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN (newspaper) Magazine of 24-25 June 2023 at p66 appears the article by social commentator Phillip Adams entitled ‘The Final Curtain’.

  • An eternity of consequence

    A seventeen year old Aussie youth died suddenly of a stroke.  A forty-something year old wife and mother stabbed to death in her own home during a robbery gone wrong.

  • A new creation

    This unexpected strange effect came upon me (which started slowly) forty seven years ago. It has changed me over time, involving the emergence of a vastly different worldview which commenced without request or me consciously doing anything to provoke it into being, starting when I was about twenty eight years of age.

  • Who’s out-of-step here?

    In the WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN newspaper Magazine of 5-6 November 2022 is the article by Nikki Gemmell entitled: Losing their religion (p11).

  • Is anyone in control?

    We were attending a Bible study home group when the question arose whether there was anyone in control of the world/society. Or was it spiralling out of control because it did not have and did not recognise a ‘captain’ who had the right to exercise ultimate control, be deferred to, command respect and obedience?

  • Silent witness of the senses

    If we are fortunate enough to be able-bodied in each of these areas, then general living can be very satisfying and fulfilling.

  • The reputation we leave behind

    His character flaws were legendary: his legacy was extraordinary.

  • From a distance

    It’s been said that a country can be evaluated in various ways: by the way it treats its children, its elderly, its animals and its prisoners. And of course, by the way it treats its people.