Welcome

Good morning everyone!

Hi church family.

Hopefully you’ll be aware that we are back meeting together 9:30am each Sunday with a real, in person service! Like every other church, this new service under the new COVID restrictions has had it’s share of challenges. Upgrading the tech side of things to allow for video recording to be shared online, and also duplicating our chapel area to the space in our “outback” to cater for social distancing , is still a work in progress.

Thank you for your patience and support during this new season. Feel free to come along each Sunday as we can so far cater for everyone without the need for pre-regisration. However if you are happy to watch the sermon online in the comfort of your home, that will also be quite ok.

Continue to pray with us for our leaders and community so that we will not see the return of a lockdown period in QLD.

I look forward to connecting with you in person and would like to make a special welcome to those who have just joined us since all the enforced changes have come into place. God Bless and have a great week serving God wherever He has placed you.

Pastor Brendan.

From the Pastor...

This Week’s Sermon

Joshua 24:15-28 (NIV)

¹⁵But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

¹⁶Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods! ¹⁷It was the Lord our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled. ¹⁸And the Lord drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God.”

¹⁹Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. ²⁰If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.”

²¹But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the Lord.”

²²Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the Lord.”

“Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

²³“Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

²⁴And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”

²⁵On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws. ²⁶And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the Lord.

²⁷“See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the Lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.”

²⁸Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.