Marriage vows are taken 'until death parts us'

But when a 'marriage breakdown' happens, and one person leaves, and even enters into a marriage-type relationship with another person, what then? Is the original marriage still there?

This book is written by men and women who have been through the deep hurt and confusion of a marriage breakdown. At the time of writing, none of them has been reconciled to husband or wife. But each has come into a transforming experience of God's faithful and forgiving love. As a result, they know themselves to be called by God to be faithful in love to their estranged husband or wife, no matter what, and they tell of God's faithful love sustaining them in that.

One contributor writes: 'My marriage is not over; in fact I am now more actively and consciously involved in my marriage than I ever was before!'

'I know no book like it for the matters of which it treats. ..a volume of loving wisdom and honest sharing. ..a gift in these sad times when divorce is compounding itself at an alarming rate, not only in what we call secular society, but in churches all over the world.'

From the foreword by the Rev. Geoffrey Bingham

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No Life without Dryads by Geoffrey Bingham

The Friends of Mitcham Library recently hosted the launch of a new book from the local author Geoffrey Bingham who has been writing 'since he was in short pants'. No Life without Dryads is a collection of short stories covering about eighty years of his life and so is vintage writing. Rob Linn, local historian and long-time friend and fellow book-writer, launched the book with lively anecdotes of life on his property at Cherry Gardens and a warm appreciation of Geoffrey's stories.

No Life without Dryads by Geoffrey Bingham is published locally by New Creation Publications Inc. and is available from bookshops at $10.00. Mitcham Library has copies of this and many other books by this author.

Author Geoffrey Bingham signing copies of his new book No Life without Dryads at the Mitcham Library, Adelaide, 2002

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Comprehending Justification
by Geoffrey Bingham

The theme we have take up in this book is of immense practical importance to us. It raises the questions, 'How can a person be righteous before God?' 'How can a person have the past obliterated, so to speak, and proceed in life as acquitted from all guilt and forgiven all sin?' 'Even if God pitied us could He rightly commit us as righteous where such an act would seem to be contrary to the law?' We might look enviously at those who claim they stand before God and the Law with out being guilty, that we might shake our heads at such an arrogant claim.

This book does not evade the issues which need to be faced. The human conscience with law, with the possibilities of judgement and punishment and of final failure of a person as a human being.

The answer certainly lies within this written treatment of justification. It is worth the trouble of giving time to see what the author is saying. It is not trite to say that t could be life changing. If understand and acted upon.

Geoffrey Bingham

2002

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The Beautiful City of God
Geoffrey Bingham

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What is the Church of God, and how are we to live in It?

Are we to take what we see of the Church as an organisation of people in present-day society- one group of people among others-and say that this is it? There is a problem with that. We are fallen human beings. What we regard to be normal for humanity is actually abnormal or subnormal, subject to corruption and mortality. The Church Is the people that God is training to be 'partakers of the divine nature' (2 Peter 1:4)-partners in His purposes for both time and eternity. As such, it is markedly distinct from all human attempts to create community.

This Is evident only to those who have come to know Christ in His incarnation and works of love-those who glory only in His Cross, which has brought us from intolerable and disgusting depravity to unspeakable glory.

This book is written to a Church that has lost much of what it can and ought to be, in the confidence that it is the treasured possession of God. It is the expression of one who longs to see human beings accorded their true God-given honour and dignity.