The Lord’s Supper is a wonderful way to celebrate our salvation in Jesus together as a church family. It’s a meal given to the church by Jesus himself as a special way to remember his death on the cross – that he broke his body and shed his blood to…
A great way to ‘Love My Church’ is to join and commit to a Growth Group. Here are 5 reasons why- 1. To grow your servant heart. Are you looking to build your understanding of God? Are you ready to be challenged in how you see and feel the world?…
Is Suffering God’s Punishment? Facing suffering and death is always awful. When you face it as a Christian there can be an added element of confusion; why would a good God allow or even cause something like this to one of his children? To add salt in the wound, there…
Evangelism. E-van-gel-ism. Let that word roll around in your mouth for a while. Does it bring into your mind an image that is warm, or cold? To me, the word “church” brings to mind warm images – community, sharing, diversity… but when I sat down to start writing this blog,…
One of my favourite childhood holidays was travelling through the Northern Territory when I was ten. Dad and Mum had planned this amazing trip: flying to Alice Springs, and then driving to Darwin, visiting stunning places along the way, including Uluru, Kakadu, Katherine Gorge, and Mataranka Springs – before flying…
After talking about change as not coming through morality or rule keeping, it might seem a bit contradictory to talk about discipline as an important part of the Christian life. Spiritual disciplines are practices that the church has historically seen as useful in personal transformation. They’ve been treated suspiciously by…
Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish preacher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries, wrote about ‘the expulsive power of a new affection’. He said, ‘Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ’. A…
Earlier this week a number of our team were reflecting on the lust talk from Sunday. It’s been a big term so far in our series, Life Beyond The Seven Deadly Sins. Every week highlights for me just how insidious sin is – and that’s definitely the case when it…
The gospel is the good news of salvation in Jesus. We’re saved from our sins by the death of Jesus in our place. It’s wonderful news! Central to the gospel is the idea of GRACE – that we’re saved by God’s free gift to us in Jesus, not on our…
There’s a lengthy article on the ABC website today unpacking some ways that bits of the Bible have been used by some men to control and abuse their wives. It comes ahead of a 7:30 Report story screening this evening on the same issue. It’s horrific reading, and hard to…
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