The second in a three-part series on vital issues in systematic theology by David Cook, current moderator-general of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Do I contribute to my own salvation? Do I repent and believe and thus God regenerates me or is it the other way around? Is faith my contribution to the whole process …

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Last Sunday’s sermon focussed on Acts 1:9-26. Again, the emphasis is on the resurrected Lord Jesus, and the fact that our mission is his mission, not simply our sentimental continuation of his memory. It is His work, not simply our notion of how He’d like us to remember Him. Added to that is the reality …

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Songs of preparation: O Praise The LORD, Jerusalem (Psalm 147), Jesus Is The Name We Honour. Prayer of adoration and confession: recognising God as having gathered the poor and unworthy, taking pleasure in those who hope in his steadfast love; giving thanks that we know continuing freedom from sin and abundance of life in the …

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