Over the next months we will have quite a few highlights at our worship services (9am):
* September 5th ... Father's Day special with College invited (Stephan House).
* September 19th ... Disability Services Week with guest speaker Edmund McMahon from the Trinity Lutheran Disability Services, and our own Jennifer Johnston, speaking about the work carried out to help those in need.
* October 10th ... Back to Baptism, celebrating with all our past baptisms
* October 17th ... Affirming our Volunteers (& training for greeters, ushers, etc)
* October 31st ... Reformation Sunday (& congregational meal)
* November 7th ... Service with Primary School at Living Word
* November 14th ... Confirmation Sunday
25 August, 2010
College @ Church
Great to have the College community at church! We have been linking with the College via their 'House' groups. At Trinity Lutheran College these house groups are in honour of past foundation members from the church. They are MacKenzie, Strohmeyer, and Stephan. Along with these links, we invite the primary school to come and join us at Living Word. Last Sunday we had the Prep E class with us as well as the dancers from the Primary School.
Thanks to Ps.Michael for sharing a challenging message based on the question: 'does church make a difference?' Which was then redirected to: 'does Christ make a difference?' There was a moving personal account from his school days, someone he just recently caught up with on Facebook. The difference, that a faith in Christ can make over the years we live, begins early and lasts all the days of our life ... just as rejection early in life, persists over the years. And boy, does it make a difference how our life pans out!
Rev.'D
Thanks to Ps.Michael for sharing a challenging message based on the question: 'does church make a difference?' Which was then redirected to: 'does Christ make a difference?' There was a moving personal account from his school days, someone he just recently caught up with on Facebook. The difference, that a faith in Christ can make over the years we live, begins early and lasts all the days of our life ... just as rejection early in life, persists over the years. And boy, does it make a difference how our life pans out!
Rev.'D
18 August, 2010
Worship w TLC
The Trinity Lutheran College (Ashmore) worships with Living Word on a number of occasions throughout the year. This term we have already seen the MacKenzie House Chapel service which will soon be followed up with the Stephan House Chapel service (Sept 5th). But this weekend we have a special inclusion from the primary school prep class. These services at Living Word have become appreciated for the strong links that are built between the college and the congregation. We thank our Chaplain, Michael Alfson, the Heads of House and school captains, as well as our Principal, Ann Mitchell, along with the Heads of SS, MS, and JS.
Check out details about our college through our newsletter at: http://tlc.qld.edu.au/newsletter.html
Worship service every Sunday at 9am - Ashmore Road Campus at the Trinity Centre building
Rev.'D
Check out details about our college through our newsletter at: http://tlc.qld.edu.au/newsletter.html
Worship service every Sunday at 9am - Ashmore Road Campus at the Trinity Centre building
Rev.'D
Life choices that matter
There are parts in the Bible that are difficult. Difficult because they challenge our comfortable and cosy church belief that God's grace and love will eventually get everyone to heaven. Well, then we come across a passage from Jesus' words, where he says: 'Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people and cause them to choose!'
What's the choice? In the context of our passage (Luke 12:51), Jesus just spoke about his coming again, then demands that we exercise our free will and choose, and then calls us to repentance (that is: to turn around from where we are going and follow him). Now here is my struggle. A small portion of our membership are demonstrating their relationship with Christ through their weekly worship, but a large number of our membership might pop in now and then, or leave it just to Christmas. What choice are they making about the importance of the gift of salvation for them and their future? In my own family there are those who have walked away from the Christian faith. What have they chosen? Would you blame God for the excercise of your own free will? Here is an aspect of the Gospel that is rarely talked about: God lets you decide your future! And it starts right now ...
Rev.'D
What's the choice? In the context of our passage (Luke 12:51), Jesus just spoke about his coming again, then demands that we exercise our free will and choose, and then calls us to repentance (that is: to turn around from where we are going and follow him). Now here is my struggle. A small portion of our membership are demonstrating their relationship with Christ through their weekly worship, but a large number of our membership might pop in now and then, or leave it just to Christmas. What choice are they making about the importance of the gift of salvation for them and their future? In my own family there are those who have walked away from the Christian faith. What have they chosen? Would you blame God for the excercise of your own free will? Here is an aspect of the Gospel that is rarely talked about: God lets you decide your future! And it starts right now ...
Rev.'D
advice: overcoming adversity
Solid as a foundation may seem when it is poured, any foundation is still built on the ground. The Bible gives us the advice to check out the ground before we build anything on it. It was one of Jesus' parables - the one about the man who built his house on sand, the other on rock. The weather factor was then brought into the story as to who survived the storm. Have you ever noticed that when life is generally good to all, it apparently makes little difference what kind of ground you build your life on; not until the storms of life come battering against you? Suddenly it makes all the difference in the world.
The advice we have from scripture to build our life on faith in God is what has helped numerous people weather the storms of life. So what is it that gives people of faith such confidence? Here it is: It is the belief that God can make the difference in our life when we allow Him to. Such confidence built on faith leads many to do great things; actions that serve and bless our wider community. As an example here at Living Word, our support for others in need, like the orphans in India or the displaced people in Pakistan, becomes our way of extending God's rescus when life's storms quite litetally destoys everything we have and hold on to. So, what is left when disaster strikes? Again, here it is: faith the God will use people like you and me to extend a helping hand - to lead people back to solid ground on which they can build their future.
To help financially, please contact ALWS at www.alws.org.au or phone 1300 763 407
Rev.'D
The advice we have from scripture to build our life on faith in God is what has helped numerous people weather the storms of life. So what is it that gives people of faith such confidence? Here it is: It is the belief that God can make the difference in our life when we allow Him to. Such confidence built on faith leads many to do great things; actions that serve and bless our wider community. As an example here at Living Word, our support for others in need, like the orphans in India or the displaced people in Pakistan, becomes our way of extending God's rescus when life's storms quite litetally destoys everything we have and hold on to. So, what is left when disaster strikes? Again, here it is: faith the God will use people like you and me to extend a helping hand - to lead people back to solid ground on which they can build their future.
To help financially, please contact ALWS at www.alws.org.au or phone 1300 763 407
Rev.'D
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