News, Notices & Prayer points - 1st August 2023
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
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This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
I have many favourite passages in the Bible. The whole of Mark’s gospel is one of them. Matthew’s gospel (aside from the gnashing of teeth) is another. I also cherish the ancient hymn fragments embedded in the New Testament, such as the Colossians hymn 1.15-20.
In all the bewildering maze of religions and faiths in the contemporary world competing for the allegiance of human persons, Jesus Christ stands solitary and supreme. He was genuine through and through. He was what he claimed to be.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
The Uniting College for Leadership and Theology is now part of a national university, the University of Divinity (UD). Together with Pilgrim College, the UCAs College in Melbourne, we are experiencing the benefits of a broader ecumenical setting and a Higher Education Provider in close touch with national university sector trends and opportunities.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
It’s been reported that two out of three Australians think that religion does more harm than good in the world.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
We can understand why people who are victims of oppression, violence, war, abuse, or terror of any kind, want the evil that caused their pain, eradicated. This is as true today as it was in the first century.
Despite ubiquitous usage, particularly in the titles of books and conferences over the past twenty years, we need constant reminding about mission.
The kingdom of God, Jesus said, is moved by a disrupting power. But not the kind of power that needs an empire or an army. The kingdom of God disrupts the way a mustard seed disrupts.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
As I have lived most of my church life primarily in Anglican and ecumenical settings, I have to admit to some bemusement about the annual marking of the Uniting Church’s founding.
A summary of the discussions, deliberations and decisions arising from the meeting of the Uniting Church in SA Synod Meeting 21st - 24th June 2023.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Jesus came and stood among his disciples and said peace be with you, then he didn’t try and hide the mark from the spear on his side. He didn’t wear gloves to conceal his scars. Jesus came and stood among his disciples and said peace be with you then he showed them his hands and his side.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Trinitarian theology says that true power is circular or spiral, not so much hierarchical. It’s here; it’s within us. It’s shared and shareable; it’s already entirely for us.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
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