eNews - 31th May 2024

eNews - 31th May 2024

A quick eNews before we head to church camp tomorrow!

Please be praying for a safe and fun time away as we grow in community and in maturity as followers of Jesus together. Please also be praying for Jay Behan (the Bishop of the Church of Confessing Anglicans) who will be speaking for us on the Book of Judges.

eNews - 17th May 2024

eNews - 17th May 2024

This week the team has been across in Australia at the Reach Conference to join with 1,300 ministry workers to challenge and encourage one another to reach the nation with the good news of Jesus for the glory of God. 

One of the consistent themes of the conference was that our mission, our service, our love for one another and the world, and our obedience to the Word must flow out of our love for God. Because God has first loved us in Christ we then live lives as wholehearted followers in Jesus. Any other motivation will be sorely lacking and will not sustain us over the long run or when times get tough. 

eNews - 3rd May 2024

eNews - 3rd May 2024

Psalm 30:5 declares that although weeping may endure for a night, joy comes in the morning. 

Perhaps, unsurprisingly, when this verse is quoted the emphasis often tends to fall on the joy that comes in the morning rather than the weeping in the night. And obviously there is wonderful truth in that hope. The book of Revelation points us to the great hope we have as those who trust in Jesus that there will be a day when God will wipe every tear from our eyes. 

eNews - 26th April 2024

eNews - 26th April 2024

We will remember them…

ANZAC day has just passed, now for some of us it might be just another public holiday that we get each year or it’s the week where we have lots of ANZAC biscuits. But for others, and for over 100 years now, we stop on this day to remember the sacrifice that people made for our freedom. In WWI and WWII and many other conflicts since then, men and women have left the comforts of their home, fought, and died so we can live in a free country today.

eNews - 12th April 2024

eNews - 12th April 2024

I love these words of Augustine!

Man’s maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother’s breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

eNews - 5th April 2024

eNews - 5th April 2024

In the gospels Jesus is asked 187 questions. That's a lot!
And Jesus never rebukes the inquirer for asking their question.*

I grew up in the Mormon Church and difficult questions about theology, interpretation of scripture and of church history were frowned upon. Questions were often labeled as doubts and doubt was seen as the opposite of the sort of faith we were supposed to have.