We are back with Life Groups this week! Your LG leaders will send you all the information you need!
Ladies Coffee morning will be on this Friday from 10-12pm at Fred Robertson Park! Contact Rebs Song for more details.
Your LG leaders will let you know all the details!
Ladies Coffee morning will be on this Friday from 10-12pm! Contact Rebs Song for more details.
Mission Prayer is on this Friday, 21 May.
36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:36-38
Here is the outline for the evening so that you can get an idea of what it will look like.
730 - Dinner (Pizza!) ($5 - bring on the night)
800 - worship
815 - SG connect update and Richie to teach on how to run Christianity Explored
845 - prayer
930 - finish
Introducing the new Sovereign Grace Journal. A publication of original theological, practical, and devotional articles written by and for the pastors and members of Sovereign Grace Churches to strengthen your soul. The Sovereign Grace Journal will also include book reviews, resources, and more.
I am very please to write to you and commend this new resource produced by our family of churches, Sovereign Grace. They have resurrected their theological journal to help serve our churches to be theologically informed for loving Christ more in our world today. Click here to read it online.
Below a post from Mark Prater, our Executive Director, introducing it:
“On behalf of the Sovereign Grace Leadership Team, I want to invite you to read the first edition of the “Sovereign Grace Churches Journal.” The journal is not a new idea, for our Founder, C.J. Mahaney led in the publishing of a journal that served our family of churches years ago. We thought this was a good time to resurrect his idea with the aim of fulfilling the same purpose he had, which is to serve the pastors and members of our churches in Sovereign Grace. With that purpose in view, the articles in the journal are written in a way to equip our pastors, strengthen the members of our churches, and to help us celebrate the gospel values that we share. Our hope is that the journal will help us to know Christ more, love Christ more, and fortify the gospel partnership that Christ has given us.
The theme of this first edition is, “Christ Our Treasure.” We chose this theme because we, who were once alienated from God because of our many sins, have now been reconciled to God through the death of Christ on our behalf on the cross. In response to this great salvation, we want to be a people who obey Christ, serve Christ, love Christ and treasure Christ. Our desire is that Christ would be preeminent in all that we do. The articles in this journal, written by Sovereign Grace pastors throughout the world, are intended to help you to do just that, make much of Jesus Christ.
I want to thank each of the pastors who are contributing articles to this first edition of our journal. I also want to thank our Executive Editor, Jeff Purswell, and our General Editor, Jared Mellinger. Jared has done the bulk of the work in assembling this journal, and I thank God for him and his labors on your behalf.
As you read through this journal, my prayer is that every article would help you treasure Jesus Christ with all of your heart, mind and soul.
Treasuring Christ with you.”
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
This year we had big plans to go away with our sister church, Sovereign Grace Church Wahroonga. Our hopes was to have an awesome combined weekend away in Collaroy, with worship, sermons, fellowship, and meals all together. But unfortunately due to coronavirus we have had to postpone our original plans.
We’re still hopeful to see if we can run with something together later in the year, and so maybe October, November time, but please note that nothing is planned in at this point. With the COVID-19 situation, things are still quite difficult to book and plan for just at this time. Please be praying!
We’ll let you know if and when this changes.
Dear Church!
Thank you so much for those of you who have committed to giving to our 2021 Go Forward Fund! Your generosity has far exceeded our expectations and I am glad to announce, now that it is all finalised and settled, that as a church we have given just over $60,000 to the fund! This is an outstanding expression of your love for the Saviour and your generous hearts! I cannot wait to start sending this money out! As we said in the lead up, we will be distributing these funds into four key areas:
Future Leaders (e.g. training up men like Richard Song)
Sovereign Grace Churches Global (planting and partnering in new and existing church plants)
Sovereign Grace Australia - Regional Pastor’s College (our hope is to implement this for Emerging Nations leaders in the future)
International Care Ministries - Transform Project in the Philippines.
There is a big smile on my face as I send this out, THANK YOU!
Your LG leaders will let you know all the details!
What an awesome Sunday we had celebrating the role and calling of Motherhood! A massive 'Thank you’ to the events team for putting on such a lovely morning! The flowers, food, video, and gifts were just awesome! I am so glad that we have such a generous, creative, and hospitable church!
If you’d like to re-watch the video, here it is: https://youtu.be/G2k2dYvNsmc
The sermon will be up soon! If you’d like to read the article from Caroyln Mahaney, here it is: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/my-biggest-mistake-as-a-mother
The message was targeted to mums to TRUST GOD and DO GOOD! But really, this is true for us all isn’t it! How prone we all are to put the doing before the trusting and as a result end up guilt dogged and fear stalked! Here is a section from the article!
“What’s a weary, guilt-dogged, fear-stalked mom to do? We must do what Isaac Watts did: fly to God. We must trust God in our doing good. Trusting God doesn’t nullify doing good; rather, it empowers every good work. Trusting God douses our fears and turns our self-effort on its head. Trusting God infuses our doing good with peace, joy, and energizing hope. ” Carolyn Mahaney.
Isn’t that wonderful, but how easy it is to forget. As mum’s, the answer to your fears and guilt is NOT to stop trying and to stop doing the good things God has called you to, instead, it is do the good with trust and faith in God, so that you’re doing is carried by the power of faith and trust in God.
The one main hope of the message is for you mum’s to see that:
Trusting God infuses our mothering with peace, joy, and energizing hope for the task.
Point 1: Trusting God with your Motherly Love
Point 2: Trusting God with your Motherly Example
Point 3: Trusting God with your Motherly Discipline.
Mum’s, trust him and do good!