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Release Date: 02/09/2017
Live in Hope & Confidence
10 Minute Message
Sermon Live in Hope & Confidence [Title Slide] [1. A Vision of Hope] Christianity is a very uncommercial faith. We seem to do things a bit upside down. For Christians, Christmas does not begin until Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day. For the shops Christmas seems to begin in October. The church has begun the season of Advent. In our Bible readings we will be looking at the coming of Christ. Partly this is about Christmas Day, but mostly it's about when Jesus returns. It's about the future when God will make all things right. When the broken will be healed and the injustices...
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Prayer What is it good for
10 Minute Message
Sermon - Prayer - What is it good for? If God is God, then what is the use of prayer? God must know what we need before we even need it. Telling God about things is surely useless. I can imagine God looking down on me and saying. “There he is, “personsplaining” to me again. I already know all this, better than he does. In fact I know everything!” Surely God does not need our prayer, to be made aware of things or in order to do something. It is not as though our prayer will make God more powerful. I believe that in the story of Job and our Gospel reading and also the Hebrews reading we...
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Trinity: What's it all about? Trinity Year B 2024
10 Minute Message
Focus Readings Sermon text: In the whole of the Bible God is revealed as redeemer or saviour. Salvation from slavery, exile, enemies, sin. But there is a contrast In the Old Testament although God is spoken of as merciful and being characterised by steadfast love, essentially the picture of God in the Old Testament is as Law Giver and promise maker. God is One, indivisible, Holy, and unapproachable. There are images of God for instance in Hosea & Ezekiel as a loving parent but these are the exception rather than the rule. To see God is to die. For God is so holy & so powerful...
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The Trust Fall Lent 2 B 2024
10 Minute Message
Focus Readings Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Trust Fall Have you ever done a trust fall. I can remember right back to my days at youth group and Year 12 when I lived on the South Side of Brisbane. We were introduced to “new games”. They included things like parachutes and earth balls, but they also included trust activities involving blindfolds and placing yourself in the hands of of others. The iconic activity of this sort was the trust fall. A person would stand on a table with their eyes closed and then fall backwards onto a group of colleagues standing in a line....
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By the Mercies of God - A message on Romans 12:1-8
10 Minute Message
Key text: In many of Paul’s letters he begins after a general greetingby dealing with the issues that are causing problems in a church. He then goes on to deal with how we live out our faith in our daily life or ethics. Paul is talking about how we lives which witness or reflect God’s love and how we can serve others. This is exactly what he does in Romans. After his greeting he introduces himself to the church in Rome. Often Paul writes to one of the churches he founded to tell them how to deal with some of the problems or division in them. He didn’t start the church at...
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Go God’s “Love going” Way
10 Minute Message
1. Readings a. First Reading Amos 7: 7 - 8 b. Second Reading Matt. 23:23 c. Third Reading Deut.16: 18 -20 d. Gospel Luke 13:...
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What is the church? Acts 2:42
10 Minute Message
Today I want to speak as briefly as I can on a huge topic. What is the church? These six verses Acts 2:42-27 describe the church, as it was when it first began 2000 years ago and as it shall be through all eternity and as it is now. In one sentence the church is about teaching the Gospel, gathering in genuine community, breaking bread together and worship. From this, flows care and provision for those in need, signs and wonders, and growth. In short the church at its best is the embodiment of the Good Life, and this side of the new creation it is the closest thing to life in all its fullness....
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An Easter art Experience - Stations of the Cross 2023
10 Minute Message
Local Rockhampton artists are combining to tell the story of the first Easter through 15 artworks to be displayed at the South Rockhampton Uniting church in Campbell Street from the 4th to the 8th of April. The artworks including paintings, collages and even a story book will be arranged in order, to tell the story of the first Easter from Thursday night through to Easter Sunday. There will be a booklet with artists reflections on each piece, a reading, and a prayer. Admission is free and visitors can use the booklet to follow the story, reflect and pray or just wander through and...
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Carols on the Lawn - South Rockhampton Unitng Church
10 Minute Message
Christmas is all about restored comminity, making personal, family, social and Spiritual connections. 6pm-8 pm 17th December 2022 at South Rockhampton Uniting Church. 312 Campbell Street (Band starts at 6, Carols at 6.30) Join us, celebrating community and the first Christmas with contemporary Christmas songs and carols. Bring Christmas hats and t-shirst, glowsticks, battery candles, picnic rugs and folding chairs. Some free glow sticks provided. Featuring soloists, U3A Choir and more. Supper to follow. Wet weather venue in the church hall. Message us on Facebook or...
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Jesus carries us accross the line
10 Minute Message
Heb 11:29-12:2 Sermon Jesus Carries us across the line The Story of Derek Redman See Derek Redman was a contender to win a medal in the 400m sprint at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. He had easily made the semi-finals winning both his heats, but in that semi-final 150 metres from the end, his hamstring tore. The Olympic creed is a quotation from the founder of the modern Olympics. It says “The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part, just as in life, what counts is not the victory but the struggle.” In an act which embodies the Olympic creed,...
info_outlineFocus Reading:1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Click HERE for a direct audio download.
Paul gets really angry in a number of his letters and in 1 Corinthians the main thing which makes him angry is disunity. The church at Corinth has forgotten that what unites Christians is God in Jesus Christ and not their leaders or ideas. As many in the congregation renew their marriage vows today, it is important to keep this in mind. The main difference between a Christian marriage and a secular marriage is that a secular marriage really has only two parties, the husband and the wife. Christian marriage on the other hand has three. God is included. We ask God to bless, protect and strengthen the couple for their life ahead. They are not in it alone they have a greater source of strength. As Paul suggests in our Christian life together, whether it be the church, Christian marriage, or Christian friendship, we may plant the seed or water the ground but it is only God who gives the growth.
Questions for thought or discussion.
What do you think are the differences between a Christian marriage and a secular marriage? What gives strength to relationships? (All relationships not just marriage.) What part does God play in all your different relationships?
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