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25.01.2022 Happy New Church Year! This Sunday is the First Sunday of Advent so as we prepare to celebrate Christ's first coming as a baby at Christmas we also look forward to Christ's second coming at the end of time. We rejoice that continued easing of Covid-19 restrictions means that we can now resume public worship but bookings are necessary as numbers are limited. If you would like to attend worship at Lilydale, please contact the office via email for further details. If you cannot attend in person, you can still access our Worship @ home material here: https://mailchi.mp/32b6c4490d2b/worship-home-29-november

25.01.2022 The sermon this week is based on the gospel reading from MATTHEW 22:1-14: God never forces people into his kingdom. He graciously invites. When people like the Jewish nation as such, characterised as those first invited to the wedding banquet, refuse and reject God's call to come into his spiritual kingdom, he turns to others. However, because salvation, like the wedding banquet, is an accomplished fact, absolutely free, available simply for the taking, God expects all who ha...ve come always to be 'clothed' with the wedding garment of faith. Not thus to be prepared means rejection of God's loving offer, and therefore in turn invites ultimate rejection by him. We therefore need always to live in and by his word of life. (from the LCA Worship Resources). Everything you need for worship @ home can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/afb1e6be1249/worship-home-11-october See more

23.01.2022 #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #itsok #hope #messagesofhope

21.01.2022 From our Epistle reading this week - Philippians 4:8. Think on these things

20.01.2022 My favourite is the 'happened to blink at the moment cartoon was drawn'

20.01.2022 We are blessed to have Pastor Tim Stringer leading our worship this Sunday (9.30am at Lilydale) and we welcome Hannah and Olivia into God's family through baptism! If you can't make it to worship this week, everything you need to worship@home can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/10bf9fc104c2/worship-home-17-january

19.01.2022 Happy New Year! A little Epiphany humour...you need to read it with a southern USA accent to get it And don't forget, if you are superstitious you have until Wednesday (6 Jan) to take down those Christmas decorations, otherwise you need to leave them up until 2 Feb!

19.01.2022 As I pray for my son and daughter, one little change makes a difference in my outlook. I switch from speaking to God about "my son" and "my daughter" and call t...hem "our son" and "our daughter," for God is their Father, too. Indeed, God is their primary Father. He created them (not me); he redeemed them (not me); he watches over them 24/7 (not me). My fatherhood is the gift of stewardship. I am called, as their father, to care for them as the Father's son and daughter. When I take my concerns, fears, and anxieties about my children to the Lord, that slight change from "my" to "our" makes a difference. It reminds me that, no matter how much I love them, they have a Father who loves them even more.

19.01.2022 Our old testament reading today brought this cartoon to mind!

18.01.2022 Some wise words from Pastor Jon Owen.

18.01.2022 Today's Psalm is Psalm 29. May the Lord bless you with peace today and always.

17.01.2022 One way to cope with Covid-19 restrictions

15.01.2022 #anxiety #godcares #hope #messagesofhope

14.01.2022 You really know you're getting old when a phrase triggers a memory of a song that you haven't heard or thought about since you were a child...so you look it up on YouTube...and behold, it's 50 years old this year! A great song which would be so much fun to sing in a gospel choir - enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yA_pfStfWo

12.01.2022 From our Epistle reading this Sunday. May you feel encouraged today

11.01.2022 Enjoy your Friday!

08.01.2022 Turn on your outside light!

08.01.2022 Our sermon for the Last Sunday of the Church Year is based on our gospel reading from MATTHEW 25: 31-46: In this description of the final judgment, our Lord as the great shepherd divides all humanity as sheep and goats were separated at the end of the day. To those on his right hand he accords entry into the everlasting kingdom. Note that this is from the sheer grace of God, as they are called 'blessed of the Father' and they 'inherit' the kingdom. Again in this reading the c...lose and vital interlocking of faith and love is pointed up by the allusion to the works of love from those on his right hand. Those on the left are dismissed into eternal punishment, as their assumed works of goodness were either actually absent or never done in relationship with Jesus (from the LCA Worship Resources). Everything you need for worship @ home can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/7444387d47a4/worship-home-22-november See more

07.01.2022 Our sermon this Sunday is based on the gospel reading from MARK 1: 4-11: The first part of this selection deals with John (the Baptist) calling people to prepare for the long-expected Messiah. Hearts and lives are to be turned around completely in repentance. Baptism with water brought the cleansing of forgiveness. The second part of the selection describes the baptism of Jesus. He had no sin but took his place alongside sinners in this act. Immediately Jesus sees heavenly th...ings; the witness of the Holy Spirit's presence for his earthly ministry becomes visible (the dove). The voice of the Father attests and approves Jesus' divine sonship. Here is a clear revelation of the Trinity; yet the Triune God is always encountered through the Christ (from the LCA Worship Resources). Everything you need for worship@home can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/85c2c348f00c/worship-home-10-january See more

04.01.2022 Brutally Honest Prayer We can be brutally honest with our Father. We not only can; he wants us to be. No sugarcoating. No tiptoeing around something that’s both...ering us. Just lay it all out before him. That’s what Asaph does in Psalm 77. He can’t sleep. His life is in turmoil. He is worn down. And he launches into an interrogation of heaven with six stinging questions: Will the Lord spurn forever? Will he never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion? (vv. 7-9) This is how lament looks. It’s ugly but honest. We pour out the broken shards of our hearts before the Lord and say, Look! This is me. This is how much I hurt. You’re God, my Father, so do something about it! In Psalm 77, we learn a fascinating and helpful way to pray when we are lamenting. After Asaph asks, Has God forgotten to be gracious? he says to himself, I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will remember your wonders of old (v. 11). Asaph answers his own question: when it feels like God has forgotten, Asaph will remember. He will remember what God graciously did for his people in Egypt, at the Red Sea, in the wilderness (vv. 14-20). When the present seems barren of God’s grace, he remembers the past, when it was pregnant with the Lord’s acts of mercy. So with us. When we are walking through a dark period, struggling with loss, anxious and stressed, wondering where God is and why he seems so absent, let us remember the deeds of the Lord, especially the deeds of our Savior. He who willingly bore the cross for us will never cease to bear us up. When we raise our handsor fiststo heaven, beneath us, holding us up, are always the nail-scarred hands of our Brother and Friend, who will never forget to be gracious.

02.01.2022 The text for our sermon this week is the gospel reading from MATTHEW 22:15-22: This attempt to entrap Jesus with a barbed question was aimed at either discrediting him in the general community or creating a reason to report him to the Roman authorities. The poll tax coin bore Caesar's inscription and was a hated reminder to people of their subservience. Jesus' brilliant answer recognised the reality of the governmental right to impose outward control over the population. However, the whole person belongs to God and therefore believers owe their first obedience to him in everything in which he calls for it. Only in that framework could obedience be given to government. (from the LCA Worship Resources) Everything you need for worship @ home can be found here: https://mailchi.mp/1a34f8a8ade1/worship-home-18-october

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