Hi all. Just a simple thought I wanted to share as I sit at the computer on a wet Friday morning, getting my thoughts together for the weekend, after two of the most pastorally intense weeks I can recall. There is so much that happens in this broken world that is beyond our ability to [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5 by Steve Cree, we build on what we learnt last week about the “message of the cross”. We shouldn’t be surprised that God delights in using such a weak and dumb looking thing like a cross as his instrument of salvation. After all, it’s not just the [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 by Steve Cree, we see the real tragedy of a divided church that has forgotten the cross of Jesus. The same cross, that unites the church because it is our common salvation, is the cross that divides the world into saved and unsaved, as people accept or [...]

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Did you see the PM say sorry yesterday? I thought it was a pretty well-made speech, even better because he seemed to mean what he was saying. It was an important day - an important attempt to heal a complex divide.
I suspect, though, that our church, just like our community, is somewhat divided on the question [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 by Steve Cree, we hear Paul’s call for unity that inspired our series title for 1 Corinthians 1-4: ‘perfectly united’. Paul’s appeal to the deeply divided Corinthian church is that they be be “perfectly united in mind and thought”, as he points them to the cross of [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 by Steve Cree, we not only kick off our ‘perfectly united’ series in 1 Corinthians chapters 1-4 for term 1, but our journey through 1 Corinthians which will dominate our teaching program throughout 2008. In this opening talk, we see the ‘high calling’ of the church [...]

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