Reflection of the Week - 8th October 2024
The movement from power through strength to power through powerlessness is our call.
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The movement from power through strength to power through powerlessness is our call.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Our death may be the end of our success, our productivity, our fame, or our importance among people, but it is not the end of our fruitfulness.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Forgiveness is grounded in love that demands justice. Forgiveness is a God-given grace that frees the sinned against to pray for the salvation of sinners to free the world from further hatred, violence, and desecration. Forgiveness is …
Over One hundred and fifty diverse places of worship and Cathedrals across Australia unveiled banners today with a united message for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition: supporting a rapid transition from coal and gas to clean energy.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
It seems quite clear that we grow spiritually by passing beyond some perfect Order, through an often painful and seemingly unnecessary Disorder to an enlightened Reorder or ‘resurrection.’
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Aged between 73 and 96, members of Resthaven Mitcham’s ‘Knit & Natter’ and ‘Hobbies & Craft’ groups have been working together to support others in need.
None of us are going to save this planet alone. But we can shift patterns of destruction in our own ecosystem. If we learn the place and fall madly in love, how could we not interfere in the destruction and make change?
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
Resilience is really a secular word for what religion was trying to say with the word faith. Even Jesus emphasised faith more than love. Without a certain ability to let go, to trust, to allow, we won’t get to any new place.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
We may have only a few talents, but we have many gifts. Our gifts are the many ways in which we express our humanity.
Jesus said that there is no greater love than for a person to lay down their life for their friends, and then Jesus showed us that love by giving up his life on the cross for us, his friends. It’s Jesus’ love that teaches us what real love looks like.
This week's news, notices & prayer points from congregations, the SA Synod, and the wider Uniting Church.
A wise mentor leads someone to their own centre and to the Centre, but by circuitous paths, using their two steps backward to lead them three steps forward. It may look unproductive, but it is really the wisdom path of God.
A special Thanksgiving Service was held on Sunday 4th August to celebrate 150 years since the Moonta Wesleyan Methodist (now Uniting) Church was officially opened on 2nd and 3rd August 1874.
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