I’ve had a few requests for the pictures I used on Sunday in relation to 1 Corinthians 15:34 “Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning…”. The tendency of bible verse posters to be cute and comfy rather than challenging is perhaps the picture that tells a thousand words about our comfortable [...]

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Steve Cree spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 15:12-34.  If Christ didn’t rise from the dead then we’re wasting our time being Christians: no forgiveness, no hope, no future.  But Christ did rise - and so we will also - and that future changes everything about how we live now.
Key Verse
“If only for this life [...]

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One look at ‘Schoolies Week’ is enough to get you praying more for youth ministry. And children’s ministry. And University ministry. And Christian parents. And for the work of the gospel in every way.
Rossie and I travelled up to Brisbane on Tuesday for some appointments and stayed the night on the Gold Coast on the [...]

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It was hard not to be a little misty-eyed listening to Barack Obama’s victory speech last night. It is truly an amazing ‘moment’ in history we are witnessing as the U.S.A. has elected its first African-American president.
We need to be prayerful for him, and for other world leaders including our own here in Australia. They [...]

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So were you taken by surprise on Saturday that apart from voting for Councillors and for a Mayor you also had to vote on a possible change to the Constitution? And if you hadn’t given it much thought (if any), what was your instinct? My guess, for most of us, the instinct was to vote [...]

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Wade Iedema spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1 about how Paul replaced the Corinthian question “what action is OK for me to do?” with the gospel question “what action is best for others?”. The absolute best for others that we need to be consumed with, is their salvation.
Key Verse
“…even as I try to please [...]

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Kelvin Jarrett spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 - while idol feasts seem innocent to the Corinthians Paul uses the Lord’s Supper to show how a meal can be more than a meal.  We must flee from anything that draws our worship away from Jesus and him alone.
Key Verse
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from [...]

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A recording of “Opposite Way” has been added to the Featured Items Page:
The Father sent his Son down
The Light of men
The cross he bore was crippling
Rejected in his own town
They couldn’t see the Sun shining
He knelt in the garden and prayed
Father let this cup pass from me
It’s not Your will for me to stay
Your will [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 7:23-40 by Steve Cree the primary focus of Paul’s discussion now shifts from marriage to singleness. In reality his teaching about marriage and singleness is interwoven through the whole chapter, without the clear distinction the talk titles imply (we started the Bible reading at verse 23 to show [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 7:1-24 we continue to see Paul correcting wrong ideas of spirituality in the Corinthian church, especially because this wrong thinking spirituality was leading to disastrous actions sexually. At one extreme there was the ‘anything goes’ view (6:12-20). Now we see the other ‘no go’ extreme, where all sex [...]

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