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Sing praises to God, sing praises to God, sing praises to our King, sing praises. Psalm 47:6

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:19-20

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Colossians 3:16

“Ours is a singing faith. At every turn, on every occasion, and in every age the Christian church has been marked by a prolific love of music. Wherever the Gospel has been preached, it has simultaneously been sung. Wherever the praises of our God have been expressed in words, they have simultaneously been expressed in melodies. According to Martin Luther, ‘Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in this world.’“ George Grant…

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Title: Outdoor Carols
Location: Hills Park
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 12/12/2009

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When you don’t feel like, take heart

Did you wake up not feeling like reading your Bible and praying? How many times today have you had to battle not feeling like doing things you know would be good for you?

While it’s true that this is our indwelling sin that we must repent of and fight against, there’s more going on.

Think about this strange pattern that occurs over and over in just about every area of life:

- Good food requires discipline to prepare and eat while junk food tends to be the most
  tasty, addictive, and convenient.

- Keeping the body healthy and strong requires frequent deliberate discomfort while it only
  takes constant comfort to go to pot.

- You have to make yourself pick up that nourishing theological book while watching a
  movie can feel so inviting.

- You frequently have to force yourself to get to devotions and prayer while sleeping,
  reading the sports, and checking Facebook seems effortless.

- To play beautiful music requires thousands of hours of tedious practice.

- To excel in sports requires monotonous drills ad nauseum.

- It takes years and years of schooling just to make certain opportunities possible.

- This goes on and on.

The pattern is this: the greater joys are obtained through struggle and pain, while brief, unsatisfying, and often destructive joys are right at our fingertips. Why is this?

Because, in great mercy, God is showing us everywhere, in things that are just shadows of heavenly things, that there is a great reward for those who struggle through…

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The Body Life series

Last Sunday we began a series on the life of church called the Body Life series. We looked at what is church. Here’s the definition I shared. We are going to spend some time in the rest of series looking a some aspects of this definition.

What is ‘church’ and what does it do?

The local church is a community of believers in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. They are devoted to Scripture are organised under appointed qualified leadership and gather regularly for preaching, worship, the Lord’s Supper and baptism, and go out into the world to live and speak about Jesus in the world.

Here’s a summary of what we looked at last Sunday.

-         Church is a local expression of that universal eternal reality. The church gathered is a visible expression of the invisible eternal reality.

-         The Bible assumes people ‘in Jesus’ gather together. It’s what people did straight away after they became Christians as we see from Acts 2. They met together daily. Hebrews 10:25 says:- Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing. Also to keep the ‘one another’ commands that are given in the New Testament you must be together.

-         Bonhoeffer says:- “Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate”

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Title: AGM
Location: @ Lakeshore Church
Description: Annual General Meeting.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-10-25

Title: Church Meeting
Location: 1 Lakeshore Ave, Nth Buderim
Description: We meet for about an hour and fifteen minutes. This includes singing, prayer, Bible reading and a talk from the Bible. The children stay in church for the first half and then go to different aged groups for Sunday School. After the meeting we stay around for morning tea.
Start Time: 9:00
Date: 2008-10-26

Title: Sunday School Training
Location: @ The Church
Description: Please let L-T know after church if you are coming
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2008-10-26

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Title: Carols in the Park
Location: Hills Park (accross from the Church)
Description: Fun, games and BBQ from 5pm Carols starting at 6:45pm.
Date: 2008-12-13