This Sunday we will be introducing a new song, ‘Lord Have Mercy (For What We Have Done)’.

This song takes the theme from an ancient confession of sin, kyrie eleison (which means, Lord have mercy).

It’s designed to walk us through our own personal and corporate sins and confess them to the Lord, crying out for his mercy and grace upon us!

If you are wondering why we take time each Sunday to corporately confess sin (and sometimes steal prayers and ideas from the Anglican Prayerbook), it’s because:

a) the bible says to! James 5:16 ”Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.”

b) it is good for our souls to be reminded that we don’t just need forgiveness once when we are converted but we need his mercy every day for all our sins

c) it is good for our souls to release the burden of our sin and not hold onto it, but instead confess it regularly

d) it is good for our church community to be a place where we all are admitting with humility that we are sinners. There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ Christians, we are all bad!

Take some time to listen to it in our playlists (add our playlists and listen to our church songs during the week so you can be more familiar with our songs!) or here

Check out the lyrics:

Verse 1

For what we have done and left undone

We fall on Your countless mercies

For sins that are known and those unknown

We call on Your name so holy

For envy and pride for closing our eyes

For scorning our very neighbor

In thought word and deed we’ve failed You our King

How deeply we need a Savior

Chorus

Lord have mercy Christ have mercy

Lord have mercy on us

Lord have mercy Christ have mercy

Lord have mercy on us

Verse 2

For what You have done Your life of love

You perfectly lived we praise You

Though tempted and tried You fixed Your eyes

You finished the work God gave You

And there on the tree A King among thieves

You bled for a world’s betrayal

You loved to the end Our merciful friend

How pure and forever faithful

Bridge

For hearts that are cold for seizing control

For scorning our very Maker

In thought word and deed we’ve failed You our King

How deeply we need a Savior

Your LG leaders will let you know all the details!

We are back with Life Groups this week, the final one for the term! Your LG leaders will send you all the information you need!

Ladies Coffee morning will be on this Friday from 10-12pm Olie Webb Reserve, 16 Glebe St Parramatta.

Contact Rebs Song or the church office (admin@sgparra.org.au) for more details.

Firstly, I want to take the opportunity to thank you and encourage you all for your generous and faithful giving to the Lord! It truly astounds me how the Lord is it at work amongst us in this way. It is a great sign of our health as a local church that we would be able to not only more than meet our needs but give so much away to future church plants, world mission, and global care! As the teacher says, “Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.” (Prov. 11:28). It’s such a joy to pastor a flourishing church who invests eternally!

 Secondly, this is just a quick note to let you know that as a part of the process of becoming independent of our sending church we have opened a new separate bank account. Previously, we had bank accounts within Sovereign Grace Wahroonga’s overarching account, now we have a completely separate account.

Our New Bank Details:

 Bank: Westpac

BSB: 032170

Account Number: 436436

What this means for you:

1. Please direct all your future giving/payments to this new account and delete the old account.

2. If you have a recurring payment set up (direct debit), please change this also.

3. If you give via credit card, you don’t need to do anything.

4. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to me or to Jordan (jp@sgparra.org.au)

5. Head to www.sgparra.org.au/give for more details!

In love, 

Pastor Riley

Sovereign Grace Churches Second Quarter 2021 Prayer Requests

• §  Pray that God would give the members and pastors of Sovereign Grace churches opportunities to share the gospel with unbelievers in our communities and workplaces.

• §  Pray for Philip Estrada and his team as they plant Mission City Fellowship in San Antonio, TX asking God to provide for them, and give them opportunities to share the gospel in the San Antonio area.

• §  Pray for Carlos Contreras as he leads the Fieles A Su Llamado Conference in Juarez, Mexico July 7-9, 2021. Pray for the pastors and wives who will attend this conference from Mexico and throughout Latin America asking God to strengthen and encourage them.

• §  Pray for our fellow pastors and friends in India and Nepal as they care for people and lead their churches that have been impacted by the COVID pandemic.

• §  Pray for Bart Lipscomb and his family as they transition from Austin, TX to Conroe, TX where Bart will be the Sr. Pastor of Christ Church, a church that was adopted into our family of churches in May 2021.

• §  Pray for the Sovereign Grace Churches Leadership Team as they lead a retreat in June with the Regional Leaders asking God to use the retreat to strengthen, equip and encourage our U.S. Regional Leaders.

• §  Pray that God would continue to provide financially for Sovereign Grace Churches so that we can fund the gospel opportunities He is giving us throughout the world.

If you are interested or know someone who is interested in joining Starting Point for Term 3, please let Riley know and email rs@sgparra.org.au so we can prepare enough materials for everyone.

On July 18th we will be having a ‘Baby Dedication Sunday’.

These Sundays are very special to us as a church as we set aside time to thank God for the lives of our children and dedicate ourselves and our child(ren) to the things of the Lord.

So please mark your calendars and plan to join us. If you have a child you’d like to dedicate and Riley hasn’t contacted you, please send him an email at rs@sgparra.org.au

Psalm 127:3 - ‘Behold children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.’

This week we are heading back to Philip Ruddock Water Park for lunch after church!

There is a café and store down the road or bring your own food, + bring swimmers for the kids if you’re game, see you there!

Your LG leaders will let you know all the details!