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23.01.2022 There’s no performing Christmas, producing Christmas, or perfecting Christmas. There is only Christmas finding us; grace finding us. Hope finding even us. God ...with us. "Christmas is coming right now for the sadness you can’t speak out loud, for the unspoken broken that you fear might break you. The Hope-Holder is coming. "Because Christmas is about how Jesus came like a star through the dark, shut out the darkness by moving into our space, moving right in front of all our darkness...and eclipsing all heartbreak with His Light." ~~Ann Voskamp~~

23.01.2022 "Be a lamp...a lifeboat...a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." ~~J. M. Rumi~~ Art by Daniel Ridgway Knight

23.01.2022 We will be wise. We will be hospitable. We will be faithful.

22.01.2022 Find out about the ways Anglican Overseas Aid is taking on the challenge of COVID-19 in the countries where they work. https://anglicancg.org.au/solidarity-with-the-poor-in-covi/

21.01.2022 The Reverend Rick Lewis was recently commissioned as the new Priest-in-Charge for Braidwood. https://anglicancg.org.au/commissioning-of-reverend-rick-l/

18.01.2022 "Before Jesus, almost no pagan author had used ‘humble’ as a compliment. Yet the events of Christmas point inescapably to what seems like an oxymoron: a humble ...God. The God who came to earth came not in a raging whirlwind nor in a devouring fire. Unimaginably, the Maker of all things shrank down, down, down, so small as to become an ovum, a single fertilized egg barely visible to the naked eye, an egg that would divide and re-divide until a fetus took shape, enlarging cell by cell inside a nervous teenager." ~The Jesus I Never Knew https://bit.ly/PYJesus

15.01.2022 I recall the apostle Paul’s phrase from Romans 12: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will ...be able to test and approve what God’s will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will (v.2). That passage introduces the first full mention in the New Testament of the body analogy, followed by a list of abrupt commands detailing God’s will: Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Honor one another above yourselves. Share with God’s people who are in need. Don’t be proud. Live at peace with everyone. Paul does not dwell on the family dysfunctions and sociological factors that might make such responses difficult. He simply states God’s will and admonishes us to renew our mindsa process that helps us realign with the hierarchy God has provided. The individual Christian would do better to focus on daily obedience to what God has already made clear rather than seeking some private revelation. "Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image" bit.ly/FEARFULLYandWONDERFULLY

15.01.2022 Death & Funeral notice: Muriel Wendy NIXON (known as Wendy) 2pm Friday 2nd October 2020 Crookwell Lawn Cemetery, Memory Ave, Crookwell.

13.01.2022 We will be streaming our Bush Christmas service from Grant Springs at 4pm via Zoom for those who can't make it. Use zoom link: Topic: Church in the Binda Parish Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join Zoom Meeting... https://adcg.zoom.us/j/76530999981 Meeting ID: 765 3099 9981 One tap mobile +61871501149,,76530999981# Australia +61280156011,,76530999981# Australia Dial by your location +61 8 7150 1149 Australia +61 2 8015 6011 Australia +61 3 7018 2005 Australia +61 7 3185 3730 Australia +61 8 6119 3900 Australia +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 647 374 4685 Canada +1 647 558 0588 Canada +1 778 907 2071 Canada +1 204 272 7920 Canada +1 438 809 7799 Canada +1 587 328 1099 Canada +64 3 659 0603 New Zealand +64 4 886 0026 New Zealand +64 9 884 6780 New Zealand Meeting ID: 765 3099 9981 Find your local number: https://adcg.zoom.us/u/acXcfeZRdW

12.01.2022 Not that we’re nursing a grudge, mind you

11.01.2022 "Somehow Christians have gotten the reputation as being morally superior when in fact we turn to God only when we have recognized our moral inferiority. As the... recovery movement teaches, naked honesty and helplessness are what drive us to God. The truth, about ourselves and about our need for outside help, sets us free. We don’t need to pretend that things are fine or that goodness comes easily. We admit we are needy and look to God for both vision and strength to subvert the world." ~ Vanishing Grace: Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World http://bit.ly/PYcbdVGs

09.01.2022 The boys are currently masked and social distancing. This little ante-pandemic throwback was just too popular not to reprise.

09.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS: Our latest research, out today, shows that a JobSeeker cut would be a disaster for hundreds of thousands of Australians. 0% of rentals will be af...fordable if the payment is halved. That's 13 rentals out of 77,000 across the entire country. That's not good enough. It's time to raise the rate for good.

08.01.2022 September Anglican News out now

05.01.2022 :: I’ve been writing about pain and suffering for four decades. In view of the current crises in our society, I’m posting a few relevant excerpts from my books:... George Everett Ross writes: I have served in the ministry thirty years, almost thirty-one. I have come to understand that there are two kinds of faith. One says if and the other says though. One says: ‘If everything goes well, if my life is prosperous, if I’m happy, if no one I love dies, if I’m successful, then I will believe in God and say my prayers and go to the church and give what I can afford.’ The other says though: though the cause of evil prosper, though I sweat in Gethsemane, though I must drink my cup at Calvarynevertheless, precisely then, I will trust the Lord who made me. So Job cries: ‘Though he slay me, yet will I trust Him.’ The Bible models both simple faith and hang-on-against-all-odds fidelity. Job, Abraham, Habakkuk and his fellow-prophets, as well as many of the heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11, endured long droughts when miracles did not happen, when urgent prayers dropped back to earth unanswered, when God seemed not just invisible but wholly absent. We who follow in their path today may sometimes experience times of unusual closeness when God seems responsive to our every need. We may also experience times when God stays silent and all the Bible’s promises seem glaringly false. I have friends who see a demon behind every bush and an angel behind every vacant parking place, and I sometimes marvel at what their simple faith accomplishes. When there is no miracle, however, when they need something closer to long-term fidelity than short-term wonder, I note that they turn to people with a more cautious and longsuffering faith. ~Adapted from "Reaching for the Invisible God" https://bit.ly/PYReaching

04.01.2022 WE NEED YOUR HELP THIS CHRISTMAS We know it's a little early to be talking about Christmas but with everything 2020 has thrown at us, we're expecting to sup...port more families than ever before! Can you help us? Our 'Christmas Wishlist' includes festive food items which will be used to pack Christmas hampers for families facing hardship and unwrapped presents so no child goes without on Christmas Day! Get your school, church or workplace involved by sending us a private message or sending an email to [email protected]

02.01.2022 Death & Funeral notice: Wilma Grace Elizabeth CROKER 11am Wednesday 30th September 2020 Bolong Cemetery, 802 Fullerton Road, Fullerton.

01.01.2022 Whoever thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up the twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ~Saint Augustine, On Christian Doctrine