November 25, 2009
TOWARDS THE PERFECT TEN
Don’t miss this coming Sunday, November 29th when we gather as a united body together (including our Bayside and Cityside congregations!) at 9.30am to hear from Pastor Michael and the vision for Shirelive into our next exciting DECADE!
Habakkuk 2 tells us this:
“Write what you see
Write it out in big block letters
so that it can be read on the run.
This vision-message is a witness
pointing to what’s coming.”
TOWARDS THE PERFECT TEN ...have you thought about what YOUR next DECADE holds?
Come this Sunday morning and join us as we celebrate the exciting, energising vision that God
has us writing down and running with!
We look forward to seeing you there…
Love
Valery and Michael
Posted by Valery on 11/25 at 01:12 PM
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October 31, 2009
DESPERATE HOUSEHOLDS!
DESPERATE HOUSEHOLDS!
We begin our new series this week regarding the health and happiness of our families and households…wow! what a topic!
Joshua 24: 15:
“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
Famous words and such a bold statement, from one of the most famous of our Godly forebears, a father of the generations.
And worth listening to! In this day and age we certainly need words of wisdom from those who have led successful lives and families…and this Joshua seems to have known what he was talking about!
As we continue to be bombarded by the current statistics in our nation that highlight the escalating divorce rate and we experience the fallout from these facts as they affect families and their relationships, let’s remember that the advice held by this ancient wise man can be followed even today:
- plan to succeed in your family by being intentional about good choices .
- look to the future with a positive reliance on God’s promises and His protection.
- Understand that relationships and families are organic, never perfect!
Strong families take the following words, and carve them into their future: “I am committed to you, no matter what”....
And when things go wrong, all is not perfect in the home, we can remember that God is always there for us, helping us to pick up seemingly shattered lives and know that we have a future and a hope, someone who loves us and is committed to us.
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”.
God bless your home today.
Michael and Valery
Posted by Valery on 10/31 at 05:07 PM
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September 25, 2009
WHAT IS THE JESUS DIFFERENCE?
Just what is this “difference” that knowing Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour of your life, actually makes?
If you live in Sydney, no doubt many of us shared the amazement of waking up just a few days ago to a bright orange glow and an eerie atmosphere that in some peoples’ minds was possibly the herald of an apocalyptic change on the Earth! No…it wasn’t the beginning of the “end” or indeed anything like it. But it was unusual, and so we Sydneysiders can perhaps be forgiven for thinking that our world had changed in some way, or turned upside down…
As I opened the blinds in my room around 6am, I was shocked to see that visibility was around 50 - 100 metres in our valley. I could almost feel that creepy “un-sound” of silence, where none of the usual kookaburras sat on their local tree branch laughing at the morning, and even the sulphur crested cockatoos that usually swarm in our area at dawn were uncomfortably quiet, adding to the atmosphere that told you something had changed! A red dust swirled in the air, changing everything, even your ability to breathe. The dust permeated even that early morning cuppa…taste that “grit”...yuk!
As it turned out, this was a massive dust storm which, accompanied by the winds that so often whip up these things in the Australian outback, was responsible for dumping tonnes and tonnes of red, iron ore laden dust onto our entire city.. No wonder we awoke surprised by this natural but rare phenomenon (well, in the city, that is!) and we are still talking about it! Children were kept home from school, people took a day off work, the economy slowed as over 27,000 people in our city changed their plans for the day from their normal routine.
The topic of conversation at the office water cooler for the last few days involves, no doubt, how to remove the thin red coat of dust from your car without hurting the duco. Neighbours are still discussing the length of time it took them to get homes back to normal, from brushing off the verandah furniture to digging out the red deposits from the back of the kids’ wardrobes…it’s a massive job requiring our attention and “elbow grease” like none other! What a conversation starter…
As we begin our new message series at our services this coming Sunday on “The Jesus Difference”, let’s ponder on just what is required to make us think through CHANGE in our lives. Let’s start to talk about the change that relationship with Jesus Christ can bring. And let’s begin to talk about the change and transformation to a life that IS relationship with Jesus…that’s the “difference” that a relationship with Him can make.
And if we dont understand that change, that relationship or indeed have never experienced a spiritual transformation, such as our city natually experienced this last week to everyone’s shock, then feel free to come, to experience, to chat and to find out about this DIFFERENCE that knowing Jesus Christ fully and in your everyday can make to you.
God bless you, have the best day ever!
Valery and Michael
Posted by Valery on 09/25 at 08:21 AM
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