Today we continue our new series on the book of Acts called Unstoppable . There is a written summary of this weeks talk at the back of the church in the kitchen window.
We also welcome Jim Gordon from the Gideons to share about their work.
Today Annette Clarke will be baptised at 11.30 at Cotton Tree.
Today we begin our new series on the book of Acts called Unstoppable . If you missed out on the Introduction to Acts by Bruce Winter please listen to on the website. If you haven’t picked up a study booklet please pick one up today. There is a written summary of last week’s Vision talk and this weeks talk at the back of the church in the kitchen window.
We are having Matt Walsh’s Baptism this Sunday after church. We’ll meet down at Cotton Tree at 11.30. Please stay around afterwards to have lunch together. Hope to see you there.
Excerpt fromBulletin…
In John 17 we have the real ‘Lords prayer’, what did Jesus pray? Firstly it is worthy of note that Jesus Prays. He prays often in the gospels. Sometimes as an example or a teaching thing and other times its not recorded what he prays. Here in John we have a record of face to face communion between the Father and the Son. An enlargement of the prayers recorded in Matt 26 and Mark 14 where Jesus takes the 3; Peter James & John and travails in Prayer not my will but yours be done father.
This is a transitional chapter marking the end of Jesus earthly ministry and the beginning of his intercessory ministry for believers.
Andrew Carruthers
Excerpt from bulletin…
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…
Title: Outdoor Carols
Location: Hills Park
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 12/12/2009
Excerpt from bulletin…
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…
Excerpt from bulletin…
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”
Title: AGM
Location: @ Lakeshore Church
Description: Annual General Meeting.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-10-25
