Spirit

Hi All!
It's Pentecost Sunday, the day we celebrate the birth of the Church. As the Tower of Babel incident confounded mankind with differing languages, so now the Church speaks the one message in many tongues to proclaim the Gospel of the risen Christ!

Click here to download and listen to: Spirit.

Illawarra Lutheran Parish
27th May 2007
Pentecost

Prayer of the Day

Almighty and merciful God, you sent your Holy Spirit at Pentecost, making the disciples bold to preach the Good News. Send us out with the power of the same Spirit to spread the fire of your love. We ask this through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Photo credit: 'Glass Dove' by Jeff Miller, Aubrey, TX, United States.

Alpha and Omega

Hi!
Been absent due to illness lately, but now I'm back on deck and today, Pastor John's message from the 20th May is available.

Are you worried about the end of the world? Do you think you'll be OK because you'll get what you deserve when Christ returns?
What do we deserve? We deserve eternal death-separation from God-forever, for we are sinners, there's no getting away from that fact.

But Christ paid those wages of sin, dying for us, allowing us to 'wash our cloaks in the blood of the lamb'. Only for Christs sake can we be welcomed in to Heaven.
But what of now for us-what do we do while we are waiting? Bring the message of God's love in Jesus Christ to everyone, both by telling and by showing what that love is.

Click to download and listen: Alpha and Omega.

Illawarra Lutheran Parish
23th May 2007
Easter 7

Prayer of the Day

Holy Father, your Son prayed for his disciples that they would be one, as you and he are one. Keep your whole church harmoniously together in faith and love by the one Spirit. We ask this through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Photo credit: 'The Living Word' by Bill Davenport, Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. (Stained Glass from Wolfville Baptist Church (founded 1765) Wolfville, Nova Scotia.)

Living Love.

Hi All,
This week, Pastor Joe Strelan takes us through what it means to be 'living love'. Taken from 1 John 4: 10-12, we read of the true meaning of the love of God toward mankind.

Are you feeling down? Had bad news? Burdened with all the cares and worries of life? God knows-and God cares!

Click to download and listen to: Living Love.

(BTW, the sounds in the background are the fiesty seagulls on our roof! Seems they like to comment on the sermon too!)

Illawarra Lutheran Parish
6th May 2007
Easter 5

Prayer of the Day

Merciful Father, you haved reached out to all people through your son, Jesus, who died for us all. Encourage us to live as your chosen people and give of ourselves to others. We ask this through Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Todays Readings
Acts 11: 1-18
Revelation 21: 1-6
John 13: 31-35

Major & Minor Festivals This Week
None this week.

Thought for the Week

The very first virtue of true religion is intellectual obedience, in imitation of Christ's obedience to the Father, by which He saved us all. In stark contrast, it has often been said that those who wish to feel religious without surrendering their minds and wills to God inevitably become Anglicans or Episcopalians. - Dr. Jeff Mirus

Photo credit: 'Love' by Ryan Gageler, Perth, WA, Australia.