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Hold faith until he come!
Until He Come! Why celebrate Easter once a year? The truth of the cross is almost lost, I fear Every day, yes every day until He Come! ‘Till He Come!’ What precious words! Words we’ve long forgotten. ‘Till He Come,’ what does it mean? To our younger generation? What’s happening to our world? I hear the people cry. Is it true its coming to an end? We surely all will die! Our planet’s rapidly declining Are words heard most everywhere.…
Radical Thinking
To love or to condemn? How do I respond to those living a lifestyle that makes me uncomfortable? How do they see me? What attitudes am I conveying to them? Praise God for leaders with the courage to speak up and put these challenges out there for us to face. Praise God for those who continually make us think, read, pray, search your Word and ponder the questions from which we’d like to run! I’m scared, I’m uncomfortable and yet…
Pastors Ponderings
As promised, here’s my understanding on How to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying through Scripture. I need to interject here and say that I’ve checked with Barry that I can use his word as a teaching tool, just in case you are worried I’m going to publicly dissect everything that people say. But I need to lay some ground rules for how we work out what God is saying as a church together and Barry can cope with…
A Darkened Room
Some time ago I stopped to ask myself…how do I picture a true Church of the New Testament to look like today? What would they see if someone were to stumble into it? The picture that came to me was a church in prayer…but it wasn’t a church as we know it today… it was a darkened room…no furniture…no sound other than folk quietly praying. I realised this was a picture of the persecuted Church…a group of believers who met…
Pastors Ponderings
This week Tani spoke to us about ‘sitting with our sin’- that is, allowing space in our lives for the Spirit of God to deeply convict, forgive and heal us. It is only when we learn to welcome God into our darkest parts that we experience a revelation of what it really means to welcome others lost in darkness. This is significant because as a church we are exploring what it looks like to welcome others to our table and…
A Bad Day?
It began wrong. It was one of those days some women and very few men may understand…what will I wear? No, not that, it might rain…oh, bother! That won’t work either, didn’t they say it could reach 40 degrees today? And so it went on for half hour. I’d already wasted time trying to change an appointment but that hadn’t worked either. Despite the early hour, the heat of the day wearied me, as I hurried to the bus…
Pastors Ponderings
Phil, a member of CBBC, shared this word with the oversight team which he received from the Lord. We would love to share this with you and take some time to pray about this Sunday. A Time of Renewal and Restoration. “I am the Lord in the Highest. A call to My people, to those whom I have called out of darkness into the light: fill your lamps, a time of raising up, a time of growing, like young…
Pastors Ponderings
On Sunday during communion, Jill reminded us that Jesus “became like us so we could become like him.” Such an insightful statement, it demands that we take time to reflect on it. However, it is more than a teaching to us. “Jesus became like us so we could become like him” is a cry through the Holy Spirit from the very heart of God. It is a prophetic word, a command for this coming season. It’s a statement…
Pastors Ponderings
I don’t know if you have experienced crippling debt? I am not talking about things being tight where you are just getting by each month – I am talking about serious debt where you are getting phone calls daily demanding money, where you are afraid to answer the door or open the mail because you simply can’t face another person asking for money that you know you owe but you simply can’t pay. This happened to me around 10…
Pastors Ponderings
After the death of a one of our longest standing members, we as a people are naturally hurting. This week’s think spot (from aMrs Jesus follower*) gives a timely and unique encouragement to see God’s promises in every area of our lives. 13th September: It seemed strange that so soon after Marge’s death the scripture that kept going through my mind was, ‘Behold I make everything new.’ Wasn’t that inappropriate? But, regardless, it kept coming back.…
Pastors Ponderings
Vision is something the bible talks about frequently. In the Old testament Solomon encouraged God’s people to set their ‘heart and soul to seek the Lord your God’. Proverbs tells us that for the lack of vision people perish. We are told to ‘Seek first the Kingdom of God’. These are all quite broad statements; however I believe that God also calls us to seek Him for his vision both individually and as a local church here at Christies Beach.…
Pastors Ponderings
Acts in a Nutshell. We’ve reached the end of our study the book of Acts. It’s taken a while and so I thought you might appreciate a recap on the main points from Acts. (I took this from the ESV commentary.) Acts begins in Jerusalem, preaching to the Jews and focuses on the ministry of the apostle Peter. It ends with the gospel being preached in Rome to Gentiles and focuses on the apostle Paul. The direction of Acts is…