Darren recorded two reflections for this week’s bible readings for Project Reconnect, a worship resource that is published weekly to help congregations with their worship service.

All Age Reflection

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Darren recorded two reflections for this week’s bible readings for Project Reconnect, a worship resource that is published weekly to help congregations with their worship service.

All Age Message – Baking with Darren

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Liz Morris – July 18, 2021

Good morning. My name is Liz and I am delighted to be speaking this morning and grappling with the lessons of God’s word with you. Before we begin, let us pray. Almighty God, we come before you to ask that your presence fall on us, heal us and grow our knowledge of You. I ask that my words be from your mouth and be planted in the hearts of your people as we walk into a new week by your side. Amen.

As I stand here this morning, I am faced with the beginning of a new term. I am high school English teacher and have the pleasure of working alongside teenagers every day. I often have conversations with students that are more about their pastoral needs than their academic needs and a common phrase I say is “high school is hard”. There will be a number of you who are current teachers, retired teachers or the loved ones of teachers, and you know the realities of what the profession entails. Those feelings of apprehension and the knowledge that with the beginning of the term comes bone-aching tiredness and that sustained adrenaline rushing through me to get me through another ten weeks are all too prominent. How do I give more than the minimum to God?

This morning, I see people walking different seasons of life. For some of you, the exhaustion of parenthood is overwhelming the joy of it. Some of you are finding your hands are not as swift as they once were. There are children who have returned to school or are about to start again this week; and with that come mixed emotions and reactions. There are those of you who are in a position you did not think they would find yourself and it’s hurting. In all of this, where is God and how do we give more than a little?

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Message from Rev Bruce Stevens,  Gungahlin Uniting Church,  24th January 2021 

Prayer: O God, we acknowledge that You in your Trinity of relationships, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are perfect, but our relationships remain imperfect. Guide us to a better understanding of what to expect and how to love those closest to us. Amen

A Difficult Passage 
1 Corinthians 7: 25-31 “Now concerning virgins, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is well for you to remain as you are. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you marry, you do not sin and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry will experience distress in this life and I would spare you that. I mean, brothers and sisters, the appointed time has grown short; from now on, even those who have wives be as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as if they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no possessions, and those who deal with the world as if they had no dealings with it. For the present form of the world is passing away.”

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