Posts by Simon Marshman (Page 8)

Posts by Simon Marshman (Page 8)

Sermon Outline – June 23

False gods EXODUS 24:12-18, 32:1-24| Simon marshman  Promise and betrayal What’s the big deal? Chasing other gods who are not God What thing – if it were taken from me – would leave my life in ruin and despair? Imagining God as just another god Am I zealous for the One True God? The Warning and Wonder of Our Jealous God Recommended reading: JI Packer Knowing God John…

Pastor’s Letter – June 23

G’day Church, I’m not sure how the end of financial year impacts your thinking. For some of us it rolls on by without much significance, for others it is a peak season of thinking through finances, budgets, savings plans and tax. Regardless of how it impacts you personally, we’re all seeing EOFY sales advertised, and many of us are likely to receive emails from various…

Pastor’s Letter – June 16

G’day Church, The Hole In Our Holiness is a great little book by Kevin DeYoung on the rather uncommon but very important topic of holiness. After spending chapter 1 explaining why he thinks this is an important topic (which is a good place to start) he properly kicks things of with an excellent question to open chapter 2: “Why did God save you?” Of course, there are…

Sermon Outline – June 16

God’s Covenant Law EXODUS 21:1-27 | Simon marshman  A case of culture shock and what we can expect: 1. God’s covenant law shows us his heart 2. God’s covenant law uncovers our sin 3. God’s covenant law points us to Jesus   Recommended reading: Glenn Scrivener The Air We Breathe: how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and…

Prayer Points – June 16

Each week we pray for our church, our network and our world. If you would like to let us know about prayer points for the Pastoral Care Team to be praying about please fill out our contact card here. Our Church | Pray that God would grow us in gospel generosity – generous with our time and our talents and our treasure as an overflow to God’s generosity to us…

Pastor’s Letter – June 2

G’day church, Here are 5 reasons we’re passionate about our partnership with the Bible College of SA: In Exodus 20:3, God says “You shall have no other gods before me” so we need a college that will equip church leaders to make the one true God known. We live in a mixed-up world with beautiful diversity and terrible conflict, so we need a college that will train…

Pastor’s Letter – May 26

G’day Church, Friends, we have a great celebration ahead of us this Sunday! We have the great joy of baptising three of the children of our church family. Baptism, whether of an infant or a believing adult, is a wonderful representation of the gospel. In baptism, we are reminded that we all need Jesus’ death in our place to wash away the stain of our sin. We are…