Sermon Notes (Page 7)
Checking the Connection (1 John 4)
Morning Service – 01 Mar 2009
How do you describe a pecan nut to someone who has never seen one? You can talk about it in terms of its casing’s texture and colour, or of the skin layer, or you talk about the kernel. There are different layers you can peel back, each is part of the nut and can be used to describe the nut and to enable us to distinguish them.
What…
From Mourning to Morning (Habakkuk 3)
Morning Service – 22 Feb 2009
We Aussies love the weekend, and are constantly trying to find ways to make it longer. Two weekends ago began as many usually do apart from the heat, though perhaps with a greater sense of watchfulness. Real people were living real lives doing everyday events we take for granted. Then suddenly this typical weekend was anything but typical.…
To Be Clear (evening service 15 Feb 09)
At the start we said that we don’t really know who wrote this letter (some think Paul, some Barnabas, etc… but only God really knows). But one thing we know from the end of the letter is that the first readers knew him. Here as he finishes he gets personal, he speaks of mutual friends of whom he has information (Timothy – the details of who’s imprisonment are unknown (cf.…
What Makes the Difference? (morning service 15 Feb 09)
This week has been a very dark week in the life of this State and our nation, and in the lives of thousands of people in particular as we face the reality of the greatest loss of life in a single event during our peacetime history. I have been struck with the fact of how greatly people are having…
A Watchful Faith (Judges 16:4-5, 15-21)
What is a ‘sundew’? How do Eskimos kill a wolf? And what do they have to do with Samson let alone with how I live out my faith as a Christian today? In our Australian bush grows a little plant called the “sundew.” (Diasora ). It has a slender stem and tiny round leaves fringed with hairs that glisten with bright drops of liquid as delicate as fine dew. Woe…