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WELCOME
What does it mean to belong? How will people know they belong? These are the questions we ask at Chatswood Seventh-day Adventist Church: “the church you belong to” and we’d love to hear your answers.
Be ye prepared for the best pancakes north of The Rocks! You can also look forward to native seedling give-aways; nutrition information; face-painting, balloons, singing and stories for kids; information about a parenting course for 0-4 yos; and general crazy fun! This is a community event and free to all. Find us in the carpark on the corner of Johnson and Devonshire Sts, Chatswood!
Please note that our usual Saturday morning Kids’ Club and Adult Bible Study will not be happening this Saturday however our 11.00am Worship Service will proceed as normal.
Want to know more about Jesus or the Good News He spoke about? Join us for our 11.00am Worship Service this Saturday, October 3 so you too can live the abundant life Jesus came to give!
Future sermons in this series include:
Jesus the Healer – Oct 17
Jesus the Deliverer – Oct 24
Jesus the Comforter – Oct 31
Jesus the Planter – Nov 7
Stories. Fun. Music. Craft. Food. Care. Play. All this plus an awesome opportunity for parents to connect with other parents! Starts next Wednesday, October 7 and ends Saturday, October 10. Another community event that is free to all. Love to meet you and your kiddy/ies there!
Next Saturday it’s Dr John Hartnett and Creation Ministries International on the corner of Johnson and Devonshire Sts, Chatswood. Dr Hartnett will present during our 11.00am Worship Service and then screen the movie, The Voyage that Shocked the World at 2.30pm. This movie traces Darwin’s journey, exploring the places and discoveries crucial to developing his Theory of Evolution. Both the presentation and screening are community events and free to all. A scrummy vegetarian lunch will be provided!
Ever wished you could put on God’s glasses and see things from His perspective for a day? Brad preached about the problem we have of spiritual blindness, what tends to make us that way and how we can turn spiritual blindness into spiritual insight.
The sun has set here in Sydney, Australia and being a Friday evening, this is often the time I sit down to write my weekly – or not so weekly! – blog. Having been away one weekend and very busy the next, I see it’s almost three weeks since I last posted, but my thoughts are still on the topic of faith.
The last time I wrote I spoke about Joshua, a Bible character renowned for his faith, and how this man deeply inspires me as a leader. Someone who inspires me on another level however is Abraham, and tonight I simply want to share something I found while reading about Abraham’s calling in Patriarchs and Prophets (Ellen G White, p 125-131 ) that may encourage you.
“God leads His children by a way that they know not, but He does not forget or cast off those who put their trust in Him. He permitted affliction to come upon Job, but He did not forsake him. He allowed the beloved John to be exiled to lonely Patmos, but the Son of God met him there, and his vision was filled with scenes of immortal glory. God permits trials to assail His people, that by their constancy and obedience they themselves may be spiritually enriched, and that their example may be a source of strength to others. ‘I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.’ Jeremiah 29:11. The very trials that task our faith most severly and make it seem that God has forsaken us, are to lead us closer to Christ, that we may lay all our burdens at His feet and experience the peace which He will give us in exchange.”
If there’s any Bible character who seriously inspires me it would have to be Joshua. I love the guy’s humility. His courage. The way he interacted with God. The way he led. All in all I guess I feel a deep sense of affinity with this man of faith so when I was convicted I needed to preach from the book that contains his stories last week, I couldn’t wait to start writing.
What follows is a copy of this sermon which is all about the keys to spiritual Israel’s success, not in fighting against the nations in order to inherit the Promised Land, but fighting for them! Be of courage, I say, and see below for what makes this possible!
Sue Redman – September 5, 2009
This morning we’re going to start with a story from the book of Joshua in the Old Testament but before we go there, let’s set the scene:
About a month ago I mentioned that Chatswood Adventist Church will be participating in the Bible Society’s Jesus. All about life campaign and we are seriously excited about this. What follows is the heads up on some of the things we will be doing during this campaign so others can learn of and experience the abundant life that Jesus promised.
JAAL Sermon Series – Sat, 11.00am-12.15pm
Want to know what Jesus was all about? Check out Luke 4:18-19,” The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has annointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sigh for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”To help break this down we have created a six part sermon series:
This last Saturday I preached a sermon at Campbelltown Adventist Church that I wrote for a Christian television series called “Most Important Sermon”. This sermon uses the story of nine year old Jenny to illustrate the state of humanity since the Fall – desperately needing to be found but more afraid of being exposed.
I don’t know if you are like Adam and Eve and me and you sometimes find yourself covering up the parts of yourself that you wish weren’t there; parts that make you feel unacceptable or like you don’t belong somewhere. Unfortunately the Bible tells us this is not a long-term solution. When we cut ourselves or just a part of ourselves off from God and others, these parts can never heal; we can never become whole.
The other night I was laying awake, seriously wondering who I am that I am of any significance to GOD. I was trying to get my head around, not only the fact that God loves me but that He has called me to share His love with others, and I was completely overwhelmed.
Maybe that’s why Casting Crowns’ song, Who am I? has just hit the spot for me. Mark Hall says that when he started writing this song, he was initially thinking he would write about being a conqueror or a new creation, but he says God started whispering that he was a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow, and he realised that before we can understand who we are in Jesus, we need to understand who we’re not. When we start getting a picture of who we’re not, it’s then that God’s love explodes and we get a bigger picture of who He is.
