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Nambour Presbyterian Church

Locality: Nambour, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5450 5983

Address: 21 Solandra St 4560 Nambour, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.nepc.org.au

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25.01.2022 REFORMATION SUNDAY 2020 . [AUDIO] http://johnduffy.net.au/sermons/Sermon_01112020.mp3 .... [VIDEO] Paul's Baptism and Admission to Membership https://youtu.be/yFnMI0Z1KH0 . [VIDEO] 1st half of Service https://youtu.be/l06y-9ppPIc . [VIDEO] Message, hymn, Benediction, 3-fold Amen. https://youtu.be/dqDMBCOkbrg . Today is a Memorial Day for the Protestant Church. Today is the beginning of a Memorial Day for one who sits among us, baptized just this very day. Today is Reformation Sunday. But how many in the Protestant Church will even remember? And how many in the Protestant Church today remember or even know of the significance of the Reformation that the Reformation gave birth to the Protestant Church. . Is the Church today so taken up, so enamoured with itself, with the ideas and machinations of man, with all the brouhaha of visions and ideas and methods of how man can build God’s church better, that it has lost sight of who and what the church really is? . Let us not forget that we stand on the shoulders of those who went before us. That what we base our Christians beliefs and faith on was rediscovered in the Scripture by men such as Luther and Calvin. And also, as it was in Old Testament times when Hilkiah, the high priest, found the Book of the Law of the Lord given by Moses during the restoration of the Temple in the reign of King Josiah (2 Kings 22:3-20). . Let us not forget that we, in a sense, stand on the shoulders of the King of Kings the Lord Jesus the Christ as do all Christians who are in Christ alone by Faith alone! . And so, on this Reformation Sunday as we look at the second chapter in the book of Ezra, one of perhaps half a dozen of the most difficult chapters in the Bible to read let us remember that we also stand on the shoulders of those pilgrims who, after 70 years captivity went back the Jerusalem to re-build the Temple. Those pilgrims were not No Name No Bodies just used by others to bring about the realization of a whim or dream! . No! Those pilgrims were important and instrumental in bringing about God’s Will and purpose that their names are recorded for all times in the Holy Scripture. And so, we will remember them, no matter how hard it is the pronounce their names or how insignificant we may think they were. . God sees every one of His children as equally significant. Just as those pilgrims were released and set free from bondage and set forth on a journey to the then city of God, we too have been set free from the bondage of the evil one and are travelling through this earth on our way home to the Celestial City of God. . Rev. David Cranney See more

22.01.2022 You may not always agree with Francis Chan, but I believe he is right on point in this article. There is almost an obsession in some parts of today's evangelical church with being relevant to the prevailing cultural of the day and pithy three words slogans trying to capture the attention of a lost and fallen world. Solus Christus David Cranney .

22.01.2022 Paul's Baptism :D https://youtu.be/yFnMI0Z1KH0 (10 min)

21.01.2022 A Quick Peek at the History of Israel leading up to the Book of Ezra: . It’s a thousand-year historyfrom the time of Jacob and his troubled family in Egypt, all the way down to this point here in the first verse of chapter 1 of Ezra a thousand years of Israel's history is over. It has ended in catastrophe. Israel is no more. . That great city, the city of God, the city which David made into the capital of what would become the Southern Kingdom of Judah, Jerusalem with all ...of its importance religiously, with its temple and Levitical structures, as a social centre, as a political centre for Judah, had been more or less destroyed. The temple in all of its grandeur and beauty and significance had been razed to the ground burnt. Whatever was combustible in the temple had been burnt by the Babylonians. . The Babylonians had come seventy years in the past 68, to be precise in 605 B.C. They had first made some predatory incursions upon Judah and upon Jerusalem. Ten thousand of its elite young men of talents and abilities had been taken into captivity into Babylon. . And then in 587, after a siege of Jerusalem, the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, had escaped the night before Jerusalem collapsed and had been captured somewhere outside of Jericho, he and his two sons. He watched his two sons murdered in front of him, and then his eyes were put out and he was marched, blind and bleeding, a thousand miles away, in chains, to Babylon. We never hear of him again. . All the hopes, all the dreams, all the aspirations gone. Israel, the Northern Kingdom with its capital in Samaria, had long since fallen to another empire, the Assyrians, 150 years in the past in 722 BC. . Judah had continued for 150 years. It was a history mainly of failure and increasing compromise and increasing idolatry. And despite all of the warnings and threats of the prophets (the great prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah), Judah had fallen. And Jerusalem had fallen. All the dreams, all the hopes, all the aspirations had all crumbled. . And as Judah collapsed in 587 and began its exile, perhaps hundreds of thousands we're not sure of the exact number that were taken into captivity suddenly all of the men of significance and importance in Jerusalem would have been taken away, marched summarily off into Babylon under the rule of one of the great tyrants of history, Nebuchadnezzar. As a nation, Israel was no more. The book of Ezra begins at the end of the exile 538 B.C. We can be as accurate as that. . ~ Rev. David Cranney See more

20.01.2022 This is a mini conference on reaching a lost and perishing world will be on Saturday morning 28th November at Mudjimba Beach on the Sunshine Coast. See attached information sheet and contact details.

18.01.2022 . [AUDIO] http://johnduffy.net.au/sermons/Sermon_08112020.mp3 . [VIDEO] 1st half of Service...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Audrey with her beautiful teddies hand made with love for the Childrens Wards at the local hospitals

12.01.2022 . [AUDIO] http://johnduffy.net.au/sermons/Sermon_27102020.mp3 . [VIDEO] 1st half of Service... https://youtu.be/l9JLXMER834 . [VIDEO] Message, hymn, Benediction, 3-fold Amen. https://youtu.be/abJZGoIpgeM . Today is the start of a new series of sermons on the book of Ezra. We’re going to go back to the sixth century B.C., over two and a half thousand years ago, and to perhaps the lowest point in all of Israel's history. This was their darkest hour. . We go back to 538 BC, the dawn of the end of the seventy years of exile that God had punished Judah with. During our sojourn through this book we will come to know more of Ezra the reformer, the social reformer and preacher. . The book begins with a story of those who returned. It will be eighty years before Ezra appears on the stage of history, so we're going to have to cover the first eighty years, two generations and more, of what they did when they came back to Jerusalem. It's not a pretty story. It's a story of hope and dream and aspiration again, but it's also a story of failure and compromise. Three words summarize the first chapter: Providence; Promise; and, Pilgrimage. . We’ll follow these folk as they come back to this fallen city of Jerusalem, but for now let's ask ourselves that question: Are we on that journey to the new Jerusalem, the certainty of which can only be answered by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone? . Rev. David Cranney See more

08.01.2022 A great reminder of what we all should hold so dear and defend it to the end. Solus Christus David Cranney CORAM DEO: Before the Face of God Burk Parsons... TRUE THEOLOGY In a sermon on Hebrews 8:10 published on October 31, 1912, the English Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon declared: The doctrine of the divine covenant lies at the root of all true theology. It has been said that he who well understands the distinction between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace is a master of divinity. I am persuaded that most of the mistakes which men make concerning the doctrines of Scripture are based upon fundamental errors with regard to the covenants of law and of grace. Spurgeon was exactly right, and just as the church at the beginning of the twentieth century needed to hear his words, the church in the twenty-first century desperately needs to hear them as well. The church in our day has largely forgotten, ignored, or denied many of the tenets of covenant theology. But to understand the unity of God’s Word rightly, we must understand covenant theology accurately. The doctrine of covenant is foundational not only to our understanding of God’s promises throughout history, but also to our understanding of everythingin Scripture and in life. Covenant is not only a topic of theology; it is at the core of all theology. When we talk about covenant theology, we are talking not only about one aspect of what we believe as Christians, but we are also talking about that which constitutes part of the bedrock of everything we believe. If we fail to grasp the all-encompassing covenant theology of Scripture, we will fail to accurately grasp the Word of God, the character of God, the plan of God, the prophecies of God, the mission of God, and the redemption of God. While Christians may differ on our understanding of the nature of covenant theology, all Christians must possess at least some basic understanding of covenant theology if we are to understand what it means to be a Christian. For if we do not grasp that we are sinners who broke the covenant of works in our first father, Adam, and died in our sin, we cannot grasp how Christ, the last Adam, fulfilled the covenant of works so that we might have life. What’s more, if we fail to grasp that after our fall into sin, we deserved the eternal condemnation and wrath of God, we will be unable to understand the eternal significance of God’s covenant of grace that He established after the fall. Covenant theology rightly understood is foundational to our faith, and those who meddle with either the covenant of works or the covenant of grace will soon meddle with the gospel of God, the assurance we have in God, and the full and final redemption that is ours in Jesus Christ. DR. BURK PARSONS is editor of Tabletalk magazine and serves as senior pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Fla. He is author of Why Do We Have Creeds?

06.01.2022 A great article on worship - Bravo!. This reflection on worship is very similar to N.P.C's exercise in early April 2020 when we sat down and identified what was essential and non- negotiable in worship and what was not as we prepared to continue corporate worship online via Zoom. David Cranney

04.01.2022 Exciting developments around our church building

04.01.2022 . [AUDIO] - due to technical issues, the quality is not great and there is no video available. . http://johnduffy.net.au/sermons/Sermon_15112020.mp3 .... Now the people of God have returned home to Jerusalem. They have been in exile, most of them, for fifty years; some of them for seventy years. Some of them have never lived in Jerusalem. They had been born in exile. They had never seen Jerusalem, never seen the temple, never seen the altar of burnt offering that we're going to look at this morning. . They've come homemothers, fathers, grandparentsDaniel, Ezekiel. Ezekiel would have been in his eighties when he returned. It would take four months to make the journey back to Jerusalem. Men, women, children the aged and perhaps infirmed, on carts pulled by oxenmaking the slow trek back to Jerusalem. . But now they’re back, and with barely enough time to find somewhere to live, let alone find employment and work, and to make plans and preparations for the future all of which would be perfectly understandable and they gather on the Temple Mount. So why are they gathering on the holy mount in Jerusalem? To worship God! They got it right; WORSHIP GOD FIRST! . I. The Priority of Worship. II. The Regulation of Worship. III. The Focus of Worship. ~ Rev David Cranney

03.01.2022 You are all invited for a Congregational Get-together on 16th June.

02.01.2022 [AUDIO] Sermon. http://nepc.org.au/sermons/Sermon_23052021_pb.mp3 . [VIDEO] Service first part Apologies as the first part of service is unavailable!... . [VIDEO] Sermon, Benediction & 3-fold Amen. https://youtu.be/LxTWwsS6nLw . This Lord's day, Rev Peter Bloomfield led us in worship as we examined the serious message to the church of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (the Gospel of Matthew 25:1-13). . These virgins are the one's EXPECTING the bridegroom, Jesus the Christ, imminent return (ie. those who attend worship and consider themselves Christian disciples). Are we prepared? . We'll be looking at the critical hour, the critical failure, and the critical question. See more