Pittsworth Uniting Church in Pittsworth, Queensland | Church

Pittsworth Uniting Church

Locality: Pittsworth, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4693 1084

Address: 15 Briggs St 4356 Pittsworth, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.815857876402193893.com

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18.01.2022 Here are some images of our recent participation in the Garden of the Downs week-end. Our church was open for the four days of the exposition of the Pittsworth township

18.01.2022 We have a permanent 10.30a.m. start every Sunday. (Christmas & Easter times may vary.)

12.01.2022 Summer Rains. Storms coming at us from the east are usually destructive. Fortunately, this one wasn't.

03.01.2022 The Pastor's Pen for Sunday, 17th July 2016 More Than Demonstrated Ritual and Respect. Read Colossians 1: 21-28 A couple of years ago one Sunday, the Islamic Society of Queensland threw an open day for the Lutwyche Mosque, Brisbane. I went there after church, arriving early afternoon. As I entered the grounds, I saw how the height of activity had past. Only a few people remained. ... A Middle East gentleman, standing on the pathway, eating some kind of burger told me in broken English to help myself to the food still available on a table under an awning alongside the building. Several Muslim women were there. As I approached, the women silently slipped inside a doorway, and I was left alone with a dish of barbequed lamb before me, its spicy aroma, and the words of my greeter still in my head. Then I was approached by an Imam who introduced himself. He knew me as a Minister of the Christian faith, as we were already telephone acquaintances. He welcomed me warmly and introduced me to a member of his mosque; a young, sinewy man, accustomed to physical work by the look of him. He was to show me around. My escort took me and some others to a downstairs area. There was a long, trough-like sink with a series of taps to accommodate several users at once. He carefully demonstrated how the men would prepare for worship by ritual washing the externals of the body. Every movement was calculated and deliberate, including cleaning the nose and ears. This was so the worshipper was then fit to appear before God; that same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that we know. This practice being explained, appealed to me. It made a lot of sense, just as Christians would once come to worship, dressed in their Sunday Best, as a demonstrated respect for Christ. Many of us no longer observe this practice. In a way, this is disappointing. ................................................ # # # # #................................................... Yet when we read this morning’s extract of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, we see something happening which is much deeper and more potent than ritual body washing, or being suitably dressed. As we approach our Heavenly Father in faith and in worship, and we do so through the Son, Jesus Christ, then we can know and understand how we are reconciled with God in Christ. By Christ’s death, we know ourselves to be made, holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation before God. This is a God-granted transcendence bestowed upon us, given by his grace. None of it is our doing. So we have this understanding which doesn’t always make sense; that God will accept us just as we are. Only we need to know who Christ is in our lives. Grace and Peace, to each one of you Rev Bruce

01.01.2022 Pastors Pen for this week ending Sunday, 15th November, 2015 Movements Between Certainty and Uncertainty. Read Mark 13: 1-8... Several years ago, our daughter returned home for a visit from New Zealand, where she resides. Whilst in Australia, she heard about the completion of the magnificent St Johns Cathedral in Brisbane. She went to have a look. Her response, Awesome! Historically, the life of any cathedral is extensive. Unless razed to the ground by wanton human destruction, a well-constructed cathedral will last for many centuries. So how long will St Johns last? I’m told that the impact of this impressive structure on the visitor can cause one to think it is likely to last forever. No doubt its features of size, strength, and style can trigger a feeling of permanence, or certainty, in the minds of some people. .......................................................* * * *................................................... In today’s reading from Mark’s Gospel, we see this was the experience for one of the disciples, in company with Jesus, at the temple in Jerusalem. There was this sense of indestructability about the place; something of a sense of certainty. But Jesus explains how we will experience those opposite feelings, moving from certainty to uncertainty, during the end times. All will be destroyed. Yet Jesus reassures us not to be alarmed. In the final verse, he casts us a lifeline. For those awesome events of destruction to be experienced, will be the birth pains of a new world and a new creation. For a world currently struggling with the threats of global warming, and now the latest uncertainties about the true causes of those things, let us give thanks to God for his unchanging promises. Grace & Peace, to each one of you. Bruce.