Ballina Presbyterian Church

Summer Series

Hamish — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:42:41 +0000

Over Christmas we issued the challenge for 2012 to Investigate Jesus. In our Summer Series we are getting three helpings from Luke – three passages from Luke helping us to Investigate Jesus and hopefully, deciding that we will follow Him.

Andrew Bardsley has returned from Sydney Missionary and Bible College for the holidays to issue us this challenge from Luke.

Remember you can join us on Saturday Nights for 5pm or on Sunday Mornings kicking off at 9:03am precisely.

It would be great to see you there.

Christmas Service Info

Hamish — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:35:38 +0000

If you click on the image above you can get a closer look. If you come along to church over Christmas we’ll take a closer look at Jesus.

Taking a look at Mark’s Gospel

Hamish — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:29:22 +0000

You can barely go online these days without a thousand invitations to “follow” someone on Twitter or on FaceBook or on some other social networking site.
Long before this current craze Jesus offered the very same invitation, “Follow me.” Unlike the invitations today this was not to extend His popularity but to offer us eternal life. Come along to church, either Saturday Nights (5pm for 5:30pm start) or Sunday Mornings (9:03am) and check out this life changing invitation.

The Marriage Petition

Hamish — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:12:32 +0000

Sign the Marriage Petition to the ALP National Conference from Australian Christian Lobby on Vimeo.

Above is a video about how and why to have your say in the up coming marriage debate by the ALP at its conference on December 2. Please take the time to have a look and to respond as you see fit.

The address for the Australian Marriage Forum is www.australianmarriage.org where you can sign the petition.

November Talks – Let’s have a sanga with Mark

Hamish — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:04:24 +0000

On the first weekend of November each year BPC hosts The November Talks.

This year our speaker is David Cook, former principal of Sydney Missionary and Bible College. David will be speaking on four ‘sandwiches’ from the book of Mark.

The November Talks will kick off at 1:30pm on Saturday November 5. There will be two sessions on Saturday afternoon separated by afternoon tea and followed by a BBQ dinner. On Sunday we will start at 9am with a BBQ bacon and egg breakfast followed by two sessions with morning tea in the middle and finishing off our teaching weekend with sandwiches (of course) for lunch.

Thanks to a gracious Gospel Community from Southern Cross Pres. there will be an infants/primary program running during the sessions. There is also a creche area for preschoolers.

The talks will be held off BPC campus at Richmond Christian College, Gallans Road off the highway to the North of Ballina heading toward Tweed Heads.

We’d love to see you there.

How Big is Your Jesus?

Hamish — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:56:16 +0000

We are currently working our way through the New Testament book of Hebrews. As you read through this ancient sermon it becomes evident that the unknown author is writing his “word of exhortation” for two reasons: (i) His readers are living in a world becoming increasingly more hostile to Jesus and His followers, (ii) apathy has seeped into the church community. In chapter 12 the author says that the church has not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood with the inference that there is opposition but it has not yet escalated to physical violence – that will come. In chapter 6 the author expresses disappointment that his readers have not grown in their faith, they are still on milk when he expected that they would be into the meat. Opposition and half heartedness at work in the early church and causing them to lose confidence in or take their eyes off Jesus. Nothing much has changed in the past 2000 years, the two persistent enemies of the church continue to be wrong response to opposition and a tendancy to half heartedness while the persistent goal is to persevere in our faith in Jesus. The only way forward says the author of Hebrews is to get the authentic picture of Jesus. If you are finding to hard to persevere then maybe your (understanding of) Jesus is too small.Maybe the Jesus you have in mind s closer to our bobble headed friend below rather than the reigning Lord and King above.

How Big is Your Jesus?

Kids Activity Event

Hamish — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:44:58 +0000

Church Family Picnic

Hamish — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:54:05 +0000

On Sunday June 26 we will be having our church family picnic.

We have the date, we have the time we just need an organisor. Contact Hamish if you would like to help out in this regard.

A helping hand in Japan

Hamish — Sun, 22 May 2011 23:47:27 +0000

Here is a note from Ben and Amee Morris, a young couple from our church family.
Please pray for them and their short mission in Japan.

Helping out in Japan

Ben, Amee and Hayden (Amee’s brother) are heading over to Japan on the 21st of May for a week to partner with Christian Surfers Japan with the ongoing tsunami relief work. Here is a short video of what we are expecting to be involved with.

Practically the main purpose of the trip is to provide physical relief work to the affected communities of north-east Japan, but spiritually this is an awesome opportunity to be shining lamps of God’s love in a very open and needy environment. Please pray for this trip that God’s protection will be upon all, especially with nuclear complications, safety in travels and that God’s love will be abundantly overflowing to the Japanese people. Please also pray for our marriage as we will be apart during our time over there.

Thanks for your promised prayers, we really value being part of such a loving and faithful family of Christ.
Ben

Hamish — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:30:14 +0000