So… After a few days in Queensland on a denominational related activity, I was due to commence leave on June 26. As is usual everyone was pretty glad that I was doing that, as I usually leave it too long to take holidays. That morning I received the first contact in what has turned out …
Tomorrow we gather as church to remember death. Our death. We have died with Christ. Tomorrow we gather as church to celebrate life. Christ’s life. We have been raised with Him. Remembrance and celebration, week after week. How much we need it.
Songs of preparation: He Is Exalted, Let All Things Now Living, and My Heart Is Filled With Thankfulness Prayer of Approach and Confession: Confessing our need for true cleansing that can only come from God alone; may the knowledge of the blood that has cleansed us also purge our consciences from dead or hypocritical works …
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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