Posts from March 2019

Pastors Ponderings

We are almost at the end of our week of prayer and fasting.  How did you find the whole experience?  Setting aside time for God is always an experience as you never quite know what He will decide is the priority for the time. It’s definitely been worth it and over the coming weeks we will start sharing back what the Lord has shared with us as a church.  This week we want to share a word of encouragement that…

Pastors Ponderings

On Sunday Daniel spoke about our corporate responsibility to maintain a ‘clean heart’ (Psalm 51).  Events like the recent outrage surrounding George Pell do so much damage to the world’s perception of the church.  It makes no difference that Pell was working in a different setting under a different denomination.  All the world sees is yet another ‘christian’ leader committing the most awful crime to the very people he was called to serve. However nothing changes the fact that this…

No, Lord, You’ve got the Wrong Person!

We all settled back to listen as the young woman stood up to share. She’d been working overseas for several years and was now home for her first break. Tentatively she looked around at us and, without warning, burst into tears. I don’t want to go back, she sobbed. I can’t do it anymore.  In faltering words she continued to explain… she wasn’t qualified to do this… she felt totally inadequate. I don’t think there was a dry eye in…

Pastors Ponderings

This week’s pastor’s ponderings come from Steve, who as most of you know is a member of the Oversight team here at CBBC. As you know we at CBBC are praying Psalm 51: “Create in me a pure heart, oh Lord, and renew a right spirit within me.”  I’ve been pondering on some of the words we use today in our language— Righteousness and Holiness. We would be forgiven in attaching the same meaning.  After all, don’t we often use…