Posts from February 2009
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.…
Who is Jesus?
“He was the God-man. Not God indwelling a man. Of such there have been many. Not a man deified. Of such there have been non save in the myths of pagan systems of thought; but God and man, combining in one personality the two natures, a perpetual enigma and mystery, baffling the possibility of explanation.” G. Campbell Morgan
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…
Why God Doesn’t Fully Explain Pain
One of the reasons God rarely gives micro reasons for his painful providences, but regularly gives magnificent macro reasons, is that there are too many micro reaons for us to manage,namely, millions and millions and millions and millions and millions. God says things like: The bad things happened to you because I intend to work it together for your good ( Romans 8 )…