Port Broughton Uniting Church in Port Broughton, South Australia | Non-profit organisation

Port Broughton Uniting Church

Locality: Port Broughton, South Australia

Address: Cnr Edmund and Harvey Street 5522 Port Broughton, SA, Australia

Website: https://pbuchurch.com

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25.01.2022 HARD TO CHANGE - CHANGED BY THE SPIRIT - by Grahame Daniel. You can listen to this on our website. Just click the 'Learn More' button at the top of the page, then click blog, and scroll down to G. D. Sermon Series. Opinions are easy to form and hard to change just because people themselves are hard to change. Just before Easter in 2011 a journalist by the name of Mungo MacCallum wrote a very opinionated article: There are some weeks when the stars just align, and this is ...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Call a Mom and thank her for all she does.

22.01.2022 REASON FOR THE HOPE WE HAVE - by Grahame Daniel. You can listen to this on our website. Just click the Learn More button at the top of the page, then click blog, and scroll down to G D Sermon Series. In his first letter the apostle Peter writes these words: But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that we have. (1 Peter 3:15). Over the years I’ve pondered that verse and its im...plications, and I’ve come to realise what Peter meant about the hope that we have. At the same time, I have wondered about the best way to remember the reason for the hope that we have, and how I can help other Christians understand and remember it also. When I was in Primary School we had to learn the twelve times table because we were told that when you know this maths will become easy. So we started out with learning and memorising the 2 times table. Two ones are two, two twos are four, two threes are six, two fours are eight etc. etc. Then came the three times table, followed by four, and five, and six, and seven all the way up to the twelve times table. And the reason that I can recite the twelve times table today, almost sixty years after I learned it was because it was committed to memory. There are other things in life that we memorise too. Things like telephone numbers I’d suspect that each of us here today would know our phone number or those of family and friends. What about the reason for the hope that we have? How do we remember the reason for the hope, and be ready to give an account of that hope that we have? I suggest that we should memorise it, just as we memorised the times tables. A good place to start is with those marvellous gospel facts that we find in the sermon that this very same Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, which is what I call ‘a sermon to remember’. It’s found in Acts 2:22-41. As we look at this sermon we see that Peter begins by asking the people, men of Israel he calls them, to listen. We need first of all to listen because that’s how God relays his message to us. Someone has suggested that preaching is really a supernatural act, in that it is the transmission of a person (Jesus Christ) through a person (the preacher) to a group of persons (the hearers) by means of a person (the Holy Spirit). Read or Listen to the rest of this sermon on our website - click the Learn More button at the top of this page and it will take you to the website. Then go to the blog, scroll down to G D Sermon Series.

21.01.2022 IT TAKES COURAGE - PSALM 91:1-16, 1 KINGS 18:1-16 Want to listen to the recording of this sermon? Visit our church website and find all of Graeme's Audio recordings. Life’s not always easy, sometimes it takes courage. According to the dictionary, courage is ‘the ability to control fear when facing danger or pain’. The subject of courage is perhaps not one that we hear much about in the Christian church. That bothers me, and so here is a message is about Christian courage. Wh...Continue reading

21.01.2022 ON THE ROAD: ARE WE THERE YET? by Lois Patterson SUN 24-04-2020 Are we there yet? Seems not, given the grief we experience the trauma and anxiety resulting from the present storms of life, but I think we should be encouraged: we are on the road. Are We There Yet? is a children’s book written by Alison Lester in which a family’s adventure around Australia takes 3 months. The same question came to my mind this week as I pondered the world situation of Covid-19 with its man...Continue reading

20.01.2022 ACTIVATING GOD'S POWER - by Grahame Daniel. You can listen to this on our website. Just click the 'Learn More' button at the top of the page, then click blog, and scroll down to G. D. Sermon Series. No power: A couple of years back I was doing my turn in the Churches Bookshop in Strathalbyn and I accidentally switched the power off. The switchboard is behind the curtains in the backroom and I wanted to look behind the curtains and as I pulled them back I touched the main swi...tch. I knew what happened straight away because I heard the till making a closing down sound; I heard the computer make a closing down sound, and I also realised that it had become hard to see. Well, I did the right thing I immediately turned the main switch back to on and the till made a thank you noise. The computer made the Microsoft logon sound. And the lights came back on. All was well I thought the power is now back on and everything is OK again. However, two things happened to make me aware that all was not right. First, a man came in to print some pictures and the photo booth wouldn’t work. That was because it had shut down when the power went off and I hadn’t reset it. The power was there but it had been deactivated. Second, my mobile phone rang and the caller asked me if they could speak to Andrew the manager. They said that they had rung the landline but the call was diverted. Again it was because the phone had shut down when the power went off and I had not reset it. The power was at the PowerPoint but the switch on the phone was not turned on so the power had not been activated. We can treat God’s power like that phone Sadly, the typical local church is a bit like the phone in the bookshop God’s power has been connected but it has not been activated. Instead, the church is just coasting along, perhaps with a great program and lots of activities but it is not being what God wants it to be. It reminds me of a story about a lifesaving station where a few members kept a constant watch over the turbulent sea. With little thought for themselves, they would go out day and night tirelessly searching for those in danger as well as the lost. Many lives were saved and gradually this little station became famous. Some of those who were saved as well as others along the coast wanted to become associated with this little station. They were willing to give their time and money to support its objectives. New boats were purchased. New crews were trained and the station began to grow. Read and listen to the rest on our church website.

17.01.2022 HIS CARETAKERS OF CREATION by Trevor Taylor We have been made caretakers of creation. privileged to worship God, the supreme Creator of our universe, as our Heavenly Father, our Lord and Saviour and the Holy Spirit. God created this earth we live on, all of the life on it and ourselves, with everything on it to sustain us, His nominated caretakers of this marvellous creation....Continue reading

16.01.2022 Happy Mothers Day

15.01.2022 HAVE THE BEST - IT'S ALL IN THE BOOK - by Grahame Daniel. You can listen to this on our website. Just click the Learn More button at the top of the page, then click blog, and scroll down to G. D. Sermon Series. To have the best, we need to look in the book. Which book you may ask. Will first, let's look at what we all want. We all want to have the best, don’t we? But what is best for us as humans is not always clear. Some make what others think to be strange choices, dependin...g on what each believes to be the best. Acts chapter 3 verses 1-26 A few years back there was an advertisement for the Nissan GTR. In it, the grown-up children of a rich man hear the last will and testament of the now-deceased father. It tells them that the entire estate will be given to the son or daughter who wins a motor race around the lake. The youngest daughter, Emily, has a clapped out car which would never have a chance, but the butler lets her drive the GTR. She wins the race, and the butler, carrying out his master’s instructions, hands her the keys to the estate and says, ‘The keys to the kingdom Miss Emily.’ And Miss Emily, after looking around at the grand house and all the grounds replies ‘Keep it Kensington. I’ll take the car.’ And with that, she climbs back into the Nissan GTR and drives away. She gets to have the best; in her mind, at least. Walking away from the best our personal agenda Unfortunately, that’s what many people actually do every single day. They look at the kingdom which God is opening to them and the great inheritance that he offers them, and then they choose the car. They choose the thing of far lesser worth, but that seems more immediately attractive, and they drive away to pursue their own agenda - whatever that may be! Why do they do that? Why would you want to walk away, and not have the best, to follow something less? What it all comes down to is our freedom to choose. Some choose . . .

15.01.2022 WIVES and HUSBANDS - IT's MOTHERS DAY by Grahame Daniel You can listen to Grahame Daniel's sermon on our church website. Click the learn more button above to get there. Then go to the BLOG. Today is Mothers Day - when wives and mothers are celebrated. Yet for many wives and mothers, their experience is one of domestic violence. It is not just about physical violence, it is also about spiritual violence. Every time that a woman is denied the opportunity to be the person God cr...Continue reading

12.01.2022 HOW THE CHURCH BEGAN! - IMAGINE ANZAC DAY Another Grahame Daniel Sermon On our church site there is a recording of the sermon where you can listen to the sermon. The day the church began strange goings-on! Imagine an Anzac Day gathering any year: It was early on the morning of Anzac day. A great crowd of people were gathered at the memorial on North Terrace when suddenly a group of 120 diggers started talking all at once. But as people listened they discovered that the ...Continue reading