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St Cecilias Anglican Church Chinchilla Qld

Locality: Chinchilla, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4668 9001

Address: Cnr Middle and Colamba Sts 4413 Chinchilla, QLD, Australia

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24.01.2022 This week Reverend Terry Frewin will be at St Cecilias at Chinchilla Saturday 4th August 6.30pm Sunday 5th August 9.30am ... We will be reading from: 2 Samuel 11:26 - 12:13a King David is an enigma, he is looked to as a a great King who led his people to military victories, he wrote great songs of praise to God and inspired loyalty. But he took Bathsheba another man's wife and had him killed. Today the prophet Nathan brings God's word of judgment. He confessed his guilt and escaped death. He fretted over a son who died, but life goes on and God is gracious, Bathsheba conceived again and Solomon is born. Psalm 51:1-12 The psalmist begins with a basic plea: for God to have mercy. The opening lines set the agenda for the rest of the psalm. The mercy the psalmist seeks is forgiveness. The basis of the psalmist’s confidence is the steadfast love, or abundant mercy, of God. It is on God’s mercy that the psalmist depends for forgiveness. Ephesians 4:1-16 Reading this passage is like climbing a mountain which peaks and then takes us down and out into a vision which encompasses the whole world. It begins at a low point. The lowliness of the writer, "prisoner in the Lord". Then it reminds the hearers that living the life, responding to the call starts with abandoning arrogance and ego-struggles with others. If love generated the call in the first place, which Ephesians keeps emphasising and has just prayed about in, then love determines the way we live, our attitudes towards each other. John 6:24-35 The reading from John’s Gospel is rich in its deeper meanings. The crowds were fascinated by Jesus but according to Jesus himself for the wrong reasons, because they had seen (and others probably heard) of the feeding of the five thousand (and probably other miracles). The same would be true today I am sure. But this is to miss the point. The people had experienced a miracle, but had failed to see the sign. This is another way of saying that they had focused on the literal and failed to move on to the allegorical and the spiritual. As Barclay writes, paraphrasing the sentiment of Jesus: Your thoughts ought to have been turned to God who did these things; but instead all that you are thinking about is bread It is as if Jesus said ‘You cannot think about your souls for thinking of your stomachs.’

24.01.2022 St Cecilia’s Church Times: Saturday Night 6:30 pm. Wednesday Morning 9:30am Sunday morning 10 :00amSt Cecilia’s Church Times: Saturday Night 6:30 pm. Wednesday Morning 9:30am Sunday morning 10 :00am

21.01.2022 We have a brand new Facebook site ! Leichhardt Chinchilla Anglican Mission Area Please follow us on our new site as we prepare to close this one down We have lots of new and exciting events, bible studies and ministry in the next coming months Blessings K&T

17.01.2022 This week Reverend Terry Frewin will be at St Cecilias Chinchilla Saturday 4th August 6.30pm Sunday 5th August 9.30am... We will be reading from: 2 Samuel 11:26 - 12:13a King David is an enigma, he is looked to as a a great King who led his people to military victories, he wrote great songs of praise to God and inspired loyalty. But he took Bathsheba another man's wife and had him killed. Today the prophet Nathan brings God's word of judgment. He confessed his guilt and escaped death. He fretted over a son who died, but life goes on and God is gracious, Bathsheba conceived again and Solomon is born. Psalm 51:1-12 The psalmist begins with a basic plea: for God to have mercy. The opening lines set the agenda for the rest of the psalm. The mercy the psalmist seeks is forgiveness. The basis of the psalmist’s confidence is the steadfast love, or abundant mercy, of God. It is on God’s mercy that the psalmist depends for forgiveness. Ephesians 4:1-16 Reading this passage is like climbing a mountain which peaks and then takes us down and out into a vision which encompasses the whole world. It begins at a low point. The lowliness of the writer, "prisoner in the Lord". Then it reminds the hearers that living the life, responding to the call starts with abandoning arrogance and ego-struggles with others. If love generated the call in the first place, which Ephesians keeps emphasising and has just prayed about in, then love determines the way we live, our attitudes towards each other. John 6:24-35 The reading from John’s Gospel is rich in its deeper meanings. The crowds were fascinated by Jesus but according to Jesus himself for the wrong reasons, because they had seen (and others probably heard) of the feeding of the five thousand (and probably other miracles). The same would be true today I am sure. But this is to miss the point. The people had experienced a miracle, but had failed to see the sign. This is another way of saying that they had focused on the literal and failed to move on to the allegorical and the spiritual. As Barclay writes, paraphrasing the sentiment of Jesus: Your thoughts ought to have been turned to God who did these things; but instead all that you are thinking about is bread It is as if Jesus said ‘You cannot think about your souls for thinking of your stomachs.’

16.01.2022 Job 38:1-7, 34-41 We’ve been following the story of Job, a man who once had it all, and now he grieves the loss not only of his wealth and status, but also his children. Job has been pushed to the ultimate breaking point. He is at a complete loss as to how he is supposed to keep his faith in the God he loves when he has lost absolutely everything else. There are two main causes of suffering. Suffering caused through the inexplicable operation of nature. Disease, earthquake , ...flood, famine, fire. They are a consequence of the world in which we live. Then there is suffering caused as a consequence of decisions and actions of either ourselves or others. They are the consequence of moral failures and sometimes the outcome of decisions and actions cannot be anticipated. This passage has fascinated readers for centuries, probably because this is the moment that God finally shows up for Job, and God shows up in a way that is completely unexpected from a benevolent, loving God. God has a knack for doing the unexpected. What is unfathomable to Job is also unfathomable to us. If God is good, then why do bad things happen? God’s answer to Job shows of God’s goodness. Look at all of these wonderful things I have created. I have created a world full of good things that all interact with one another. Sometimes in those interactions, creatures are hurt. Job finds himself the victim of hurtful interactions with creation See more

13.01.2022 James 3:134:3, 78a This is a beautiful passage and like Psalm 1 it speaks of the value of submitting to God. The author identifies conflicting wisdoms that might govern the actions of those he is writing to. There is earthly, unspiritual, devilish wisdom that leads to envy and selfish ambition in the individual and disorder and wickedness of every kind in the church and the world. Then there is wisdom from above that is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing t...o yield, full of mercy and good fruits Trouble arrives, he tells us, when we act based on earthly wisdom and not out of faithfulness to God. The Letter of James was controversial for much of Christian history, mainly because of its emphasis on doing good works seemed to clash with parts of Paul’s writings that emphasised salvation by faith alone and not by works. But there are parts of the Pauline writings that sound like they could have come straight from the Letter of James. (e.g., Romans 2:13). This passage can help us understand that faith in God and charity towards our neighbour are inseparable. It is our faithful adherence to the wisdom from above that spurs us to act gently, justly, and in ways that will yield good fruits. See more

09.01.2022 The New Time for Sunday Services will be 10 am from Sunday 2 nd September.The New Time for Sunday Services will be 10 am from Sunday 2 nd September.

06.01.2022 You are invited!!! Come along to our parish dinner this Saturday 1st September at St Cecilia’s Church Hall. Bring and share a meal and fellowship. All are welcome We will be having a mystery guest speaker who will be speaking to us about their ministry in Thailand. An inspiring story of their faith Please RSVP by text 0425257939

05.01.2022 This week Reverend Terry Frewin will be at St Cecilias Chinchilla Saturday 11th August 6.30pm Sunday 12th August 9.30am - Readings for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost... The story of David’s reign is one of tragedy. The story is marked by intrigue, murder, theft, abuse, and lust for power on the part of many, including, David’s pwn family, as a consequence of David’s own abuse of power. The wonder, of it all is that the people of this story are portrayed as the people of God, who continues to work with, and through them. The depth of tragedy on the human level is surpassed only by God’s overwhelming grace. Psalm 130 The psalmist asks if the Lord should mark iniquities, who could stand? Then goes on to say that there is forgiveness to be found in the Lord. Forgiveness and the experience of the Lord’s grace, do not come in any simple, easy way. The psalmist speaks of waiting for the Lord. David’s story points to the pain that can be part of that waiting. It is as if the waiting is not only for the Lord to arrive, but for the consequences of our actions and the things necessary for forgiveness to work themselves out. Ephesians 4:25-5:2 Paul discusses the importance of minimising harshness and maximising forgiveness in Christian community. God is the one who forgives sins, our own acts of forgiveness are a participation in and a reflection of God’s forgiveness: Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. That’s how we become imitators of God. John 6:35, 41-51 John expands the theme of Jesus as the bread of life. Occurring as a refrain in our passage are the words: "and I will raise him up at the last day.". The emphasis throughout John is on eternal life, which may sound like living forever, as if its endurance is the main factor. The emphasis in John is much more on quality than on quantity. Eternal life is John's way of describing salvation and it means sharing in God's life, for its benefits both for oneself and for others.

05.01.2022 Reflection 30 September - Mark 9:38-50 In today’s gospel, we hear the intriguing story of Jesus’ disciples trying to stop a man who had been casting out demons in Jesus’ name. They seem to have become especially upset because the offender was not one of them. In the eyes of the disciples, he was not part of the inner circle, and he was acting differently from what they considered to be the norm. As soon as Jesus heard about it, he turned the tables on his closest followers an...d rebuked their blind, unbending exclusiveness. He told them not to stop the man, because whatever good is done in Jesus’ name would put him in a situation of not speaking evil of the Lord. And tellingly, Jesus concluded, Whoever is not against us is for us. Jesus made it clear that he and his disciples were not a little clique, working in a corner of life, fenced off from others. His world view, his God’s-eye view, made him well aware that God’s actions are not limited to the forms with which his disciples were familiar. What is the lesson in this for us? Don’t Jesus’ words ring true as a rebuke of our often blind and unbending exclusiveness, our arrogant assumptions that God’s action among us is limited to forms with which we are most comfortable and most familiar? See more

04.01.2022 Terry :0429699995. Office :46689001. E:[email protected]