Eternity!
16 November 2025 Readings Isaiah 65.17-25 Song of Isaiah Luke 21.5-19 In my humble opinion, the best-known and most widely quoted preacher Australia has ever known is Arthur Malcolm Stace - an illiterate WWI soldier, petty criminal and alcoholic. You might not even know the name. Maybe it will help if I also say that Stace is also Australia’s earliest, greatest and most prolific graffiti artist ever. Because Arthur Stace wrote the word ‘Eternity’ in flowing letters in chalk on the pavements of Sydney over half a million times between 1932 and his retirement in 1960. And on New Year’s Day 2000, Stace’s one-word sermon was immortalised by being reproduced in full – in letters a hundred metres high –in lights on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and surrounded by fireworks – which made Stace also the Australian preacher whose sermons have reached the widest audience ever, and certainly the only Australian preacher whose collected works most of us know off by heart. Stace was prea...