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Courage
Schantelle’s baptism, a few weeks ago, raised a very interesting perspective that we’d love to share with you to think about. A beautiful young woman, a wife, a mother chose to be baptised the other Sunday. It was a God-honouring service and a joyful celebration of her new life in Christ as we walked to the beach and watched her publicly declare her commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ through baptism. A delightful summer day, sand and ocean a perfect…
Pastors Ponderings
This year in CBBC, it is like we are going on a journey where the Holy Spirit is the map reader and guide. This journey started at the beginning of the year with the scripture from Psalm 51 which says, Create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a right Spirit within me. This scripture we have prayed and preached on and sent us out with the words ringing in our ears after every Sunday service. There has…
Pastors Ponderings
At Young Adults, we had a number of prophetic images and as we prayed after the meeting, I started to see several of them converging together. There is a believer standing in a hallway looking at an open door with light shining out. Inside is the banquet that God has for us, but the believer is standing outside. When the believer eventually comes in, the Father says, “welcome, I’ve been waiting for you.” There is a woman in a hijab…
Pastors Ponderings
Over the next few weeks, we will be feeding back some of the words and prayers received from our week of prayer and fasting. This word came from Tanya, and it is a wonderfully encouraging word to pray and meditate on. It reminds us that we are all called to the purposes that God has for Christies Beach Baptist Church and that we all have our parts to play in God’s grand scheme. I saw, very clearly, a tower of…
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…
There’s Someone at the Door
Placing my knitting in the basket, I headed for bed. I looked at the clock. Good, I could read for an hour and still get to sleep at a respectable hour. The book I was reading had got to a place where it was difficult to leave. Maybe I could even finish it this evening, I thought. But, even as I was thinking these thoughts, another quiet voice was quietly speaking. The words of Jesus when talking to his disciples…
Pastors Ponderings
On Sunday, Joan shared a word and many of you have been asking for a copy of it. One person summed up what was felt: this is important and we want to understand it and not lose what God is saying. Joan called this ‘My Journey with my God. God’s holiness, Psalm 18. 10th Feb 2019.’ Do I really ‘get’ God’s holiness? We sing, ‘Your glory, Lord, is what our hearts long for; to be overcome by your presence Lord’…
I’m Missing the Very Thing
I woke this morning and felt as if a flicker of a light had come on. Yes, the same old question keeps lurking in the background… why doesn’t God answer my prayer? He does, I know because he says he will. Then, what’s wrong? The verse that had come into my mind this morning was, “Call on me and I will answer…” Oh, I knew this verse so well! I knew its reference; I could say it ‘off pat’ but,…
Pastors Ponderings
Last Sunday, Daniel spoke on repentance asking, what is it and how do you do it and why would you do this? What’s interesting is that Phil was praying and received a word along a similar line from God. I think the Lord is wanting us to hear Him on this subject and He is using every means He has to share His message. This is what the Lord said to Phil. What I seek is a broken and contrite…