Have you ever wondered what to do when you finish school?
Well the Year 13 Youthworks Gap Year is a great program to consider and the best thing about it is you don’t miss out by living here in Lismore.  You can choose to do the course via the intensive mode offered which is a great [...]

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Matt Simpson spoke to us from 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 where we heard how Paul used examples from Israel’s history to show how people who trust in outwards things fall under God’s judgment. His call is to respond to God’s faithfulness from the heart and so to truly turn from idols and sin.
Key Verse
So, if you [...]

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On Sunday we heard from Rachel Iedema about her life growing up in a Catholic family of 10 children and how through trusting in God’s Word rather than the Catholic Church with its traditions and rituals she found that salvation is through Christ alone.
There are some wonderful resources available for those wanting to learn about [...]

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Every now and again, we change the words to a song before singing it as a church family. “Holding Nothing Back”, by Tim Hughes, is one of them.
Sometimes it’s downright heresy that needs to be cut out of a song. Sometimes it’s changing tenses - changing “I” to “we”, or “me” to “us” - to [...]

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10 talks from mark’s gospel. Encounter him for yourself in the oldest surviving record.
So read ‘The Bible Talks’ posters around the uni campus this semester, as Wade took us through the gospel and showed us the real Jesus. And what an encounter! It was great to learn about the amazing difference Jesus came to bring [...]

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There are lots of things you can invite friends to…birthdays, weddings, afternoon teas, tupperware parties, BBQs, and the list goes on. Inviting people to church is something that, perhaps, seems rude and daunting to a lot of people. Why is that? What’s so scary about inviting someone to church? They could come and meet new [...]

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Some of you out there might know that at southern cross we run a preaching group, a group of guys learning to prepare and deliver bible talks, who speak at other presbyterian churches around our region. I thought it’d be good to let everyone know about what’s been happening with these guys so far. This [...]

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In this bible talk from 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 by Steve Cree, we both press on in our 1 Corinthians series but also reflect on the resurrection of Christ, it being Easter Sunday! Thankfully, while the passage may not have an obvious Easter/resurrection link, the whole idea of the ‘presence of the future’ by God’s Spirit [...]

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As we celebrate Easter together, this Good Friday bible talk on Matthew 27:45-56 by Steve Cree describes the day Jesus died on the cross as the most significant day in world history, changing its course forever. The challenge is to put your trust in Jesus’ death to change your world and destiny forever. Maybe today [...]

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A few people have been asking me about the details of the documentary that I mentioned during church on Sunday morning, so here’s a brief blurb and the screening details:
Historian Dr John Dickson sets out to discover what we can know for certain about the life of one of history’s best known and most influential [...]

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