Human beings are made in the image of God, but we bear that image in a limited way. Yet we continue to seek beyond the limits of our power, our knowledge, and our confinement to one place at any given point in time.
As he considers the situation of himself and his contemporaries in the age in which he lives, Habakkuk gives voice to these concerns as he cries out to God. Time and again in different eras and circumstances we too will find ourselves expressing this great three-part question.
The Trees Of The LORD (Psalm 104) and Oh, The Splendour Of His Greatness are our songs of preparation, with Come Now, Almighty King beginning worship.
The prayer of adoration and confession will praise God for His perfection, express the understanding of our limitation and confess our constant attempts to take his place. Nothing But The Blood will be our song of testimony, and on Pentecost Sunday our affirmation will be Heidelberg Q&A 53 about The Holy Spirit, along with Now To The King Of Heaven.
In God’s Word, Jeremiah 24:1-10 unfolds the vision of the baskets of figs which was shown to Elijah; after which we’ll sing Spirit Of God, Unseen As The Wind.
Habakkuk 1:2-4 contains the first complaint of Habakkuk and we’ll continue to think about what the question is that he asks and what it tells us about his (and our) relationship with God.
After we’re led in prayers of thanksgiving and for others (remembering the initial service of the new Presbyterian Church in Alice Springs) we’ll give our tithes and offerings, then conclude worship singing Meekness And Majesty.
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A Burden Shared (mgpc 12/5/2013)
The God of creation is not distant from His people as they endure an age in which faith is marginalised and civil authorities inept.
Welcome to the age of Habakkuk; hear how the Word he received from God speaks to his age and to ours.
Preparation for worship in song will come from O God Show Mercy To Us (Psalm 67), which is set to the stirring tune Thaxted, an adaption of a melody composed by Gustav Holst. Worship begins as we sing Crown Him With Many Crowns.
Our prayer of adoration and confession will express praise for God’s all-surpassing nature and seek His forgiveness for the times we lose focus on Him and act as if our lives were really all about us.
The song of testimony is the very basic Stop! Go! Watch!, which sums up in very memorable terms how God has saved us, describes our mission as disciples, and expresses what our future hope is. We’ll then recite the Apostle’s Creed and sing Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.
Jeremiah 23:23-40 continues God’s denunciation of false prophets, those who presume to speak on God’s behalf without revelation. Our response of praise will be There Is A Redeemer, as we thank the faithfulness of God in His promised work of redemption.
After the reading of Habakkuk 1:1-11, we’ll consider verse 1 as an introduction to Habakkuk, his times, and the nature of God’s revelation to him and how that revelation applies to us today.
Responding to the grace of God; we’ll sing Amazing Grace, share the Lord’s Supper, offer our prayers of thanksgiving (particularly for Mothers) and for the needs of others, give our tithes and offerings, then conclude our worship with the song Behold Our God (at which I’ll striving to get the right number of ‘He will reign forever’ in this time).
Blue Chair Installation At MGPC
Sounds like an avant-garde band from the seventies, but our new chairs are going in.
Big shout out to the Moorak growth group for their work.
Blue Chair Arrival At MGPC
So, the chairs mgpc bought three years ago to replace our pews had a problem.
The dye process in the fabric had a fault which resulted in some (not all) of our chairs fading and the fabric degrading.
Our friends at Civic Seating (and their agents) have been working with us over the last eighteen months or so, and, with the supplier unable to rectify the problem with their red dye, the colour was removed from their range.
The solution to our problem has been for Civic to organise for all 200 of our chairs to be replaced with new chairs of a different colour.
We chose this blue.
And our red chairs?
Well it seems like we get to keep them, as well.
Thanks to our friends from Studform for bringing their forklift to unload the chairs.
There’ll be another photo when they’re all set up. Which will take a while.
