As I mentioned on Sunday, we are glad to announce that we will be starting a new Life Group in Oatlands, led by Henry and Alana Burnett! They are an incredible couple who are devoted to following Jesus and living their life for the glory of God. They are caring, kind, and gifted! Please pray for them as they take on this responsibility, and please remember to reply to my email indicating your preferences for group going forward!

However, this news is bitter sweet, with growth comes change, and with change comes disruption and loss. It will be sad to break up our current life groups but this is one of they challenges and joys of church planting, multiplication for the glory of God and the good of our city!

On Sunday we began reaching the summit of the book of Ephesians and saw that Paul wants to summarize the whole of his letter in terms of a spiritual war between the church and evil spiritual forces. My main point was: “We are in the midst of a dangerous spiritual war, Satan is our enemy, God is our strength, and he has given us all that we need to stand and fight”. Listen to the sermon here so that you can: 1. Know Your Enemy, 2. Know His Schemes, 3. Know Your Divine Battle Plan.

Ladies, please mark your diary for the 5th of June, for a Titus 2 web discussion about, ‘Thriving Not Surviving - Redeeming the Time in a Pandemic’ .  8:00pm - 9:30pm. Please plan on joining us, we love gathering around God’s Word together and with our sisters in Christ from Wahroonga.

The link for the Zoom will be sent out by your growth group leader.

Ladies, please mark your diary for the 5th of June, for a Titus 2 web discussion about, ‘Thriving Not Surviving - Redeeming the Time in a Pandemic’ . 

More details to follow, but the time will be from 8:00pm - 9:30pm. Please plan on joining us, we love gathering around God’s Word together. 

Recently as SG AUS we were able to give over $33k to Sovereign Grace Churches around the world. A chunk of that went to our beautiful friends in the Fils! Check out this awesome thank you video!

(Remember when you could be with real humans, and less than 1.5 meters apart?!)

One of our strengths as a church is the way you love each other and welcome one another as family. Isolation has forced us inward, now as restrictions ease, let’s wisely and safely re-orient our hearts outward. Perhaps you can ask yourself: “Who can I serve this week?”, “Who can I invite over for a coffee or meal?”, “Who can we Zoom with this Sunday?”. Obviously, there is no pressure to meet up, we all have different circumstances and scenarios, but where you can, let’s do it!

On Sunday we studied Ephesians 6:5-9, Paul’s final instructions to the Christian Household. In this passage we saw that: the gospel redeems and transforms not only every part of our lives but every strata of society. We examined the cultural context of slavery. We saw that the gospel redeems slaves and slavery by redeeming: human dignity, our work, and our relationships. We were challenged how the gospel speaks to masters and transforms their authority and status. Listen to the message here.

Unfortunately, we've had to make the sad decision to cancel this years Retreat. As a team across Parramatta and Wahroonga, we felt it 'highly unlikely' that the government were going to be ok with us gathering in a group of 300-400 come early August, and so we've made the decision, in the current climate, to cancel retreat this year. This is saddening! Retreat is definitely a major highlight in our year and it was going to be our first combined one as SG Australia.

The good news?? We’ve rebooked for next year - July 16th-18th, 2021!! So get out your diary now!

Ladies, please mark your diary for the 5th of June, for a Titus 2 web discussion about, ‘Thriving Not Surviving - Redeeming the Time in a Pandemic’ . 

More details to follow, but the time will be from 8:00pm - 9:30pm. Please plan on joining us, we love gathering around God’s Word together. 

Join us for Friday prayer to commit our church and the world the Lord. Join for as long as you can, pop in and out.

Please share any prayer requests even if you can’t come, we’d love to pray for you.

As it is often said, “the church advances on its knees”.