Online service, 15th November

13/11/2020

Online Service

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Welcome to our CP10 service online

Good morning and welcome to Croydon Park Online, we’re so glad that you can join us for church. At these unusual times we must not forget to meet together, encourage each other, and remember that the true peace in our hearts comes from Jesus Christ as ruler of our hearts and minds.

We are resuming face-to-face Sunday service in 3 weeks time. In the meantime, if you’d like to join us online in real-time (on Sundays at 10am), please subscribe to get yourself onto our mailing list, where you’ll receive the weekly Zoom meeting details.

Opening Songs

Let’s remind each other that whilst we can’t really go across the oceans at the moment, we can all go across our own streets to share the news of Salvation to those around us, and God wants people of All Nations to be saved.

Everything that we see, hear, say and do, as well as all of Creation itself, proclaims God’s Glory and we continue to declare it until Jesus returns again.

Announcements

Returning to face-to-face services

CP10 is returning to face-to-face service on Sunday, 6 December 2020, 2pm – God willing. Please see the FAQ for more information.

We need helpers for the smooth, Covid-safe running of the service, specifically in hospitality, AV desk and digital ministries. Training will be provided – please see Chadd (chaddhafercp10@gmail.com) if you can help.

Carols & Gingerbread House Party

Today is the last day to order your gingerbread house kits – details are in the bulletin or see Jen. Get your orders in before 9pm!

Other Matters

We encourage you to download the bulletin from the online service email for other announcements and to continuously pray for various ministries of the church.

CDP Update

Congregational prayer

As followers of Jesus, we have the amazing privilege to be able to talk directly to our Heavenly Father anytime, all the time. And as a church, we pray together as one body united in Christ to praise God for His unchanging character, thank Him for His gifts & provision, ask His forgiveness for our failings in loving Him & our neighbours and support one another as we run the race home. Let us continue praying together!

This week, we are asking God to:

Grant wisdom to our CP10 leaders as we prepare to return to face-to-face services at Strathfield on 6th December
Raise helpers to fill various roles to ensure smooth running of the face-to-face services
Move us to remember & help our neighbours who are hungry & in need

We pray with Kian our local missionary who’s sharing Jesus with post-graduate overseas students at Macquarie University:

For students who accepted Christ in Sydney that they may continue to grow after they finish their studies and return to their home countries or settle elsewhere
For wisdom in preparing for 2021 ministry as the number of overseas students is greatly reduced with the international travel restrictions
For Kian’s family as his dad’s health continues to deteriorate, may the Lord comfort them with the hope of seeing each other again in the new heaven and the new earth that God will establish

Parents, start KM online to view the latest from Georgie and QuizWorx.

Offertory

While we’re not physically meeting together, please remember that our gifts and service are acts of worship that also support the missions and ministries of Christ’s church. This year’s weekly budget targets are:

General Fund weekly target: $21,492
Mission Fund weekly target: $3,243
Building Fund weekly target: $6,923

Financial giving towards gospel work is a way we Christians worship God in response to His generosity to us. This act of worship reminds us of our dependence on Him to supply all our needs, including paying for the church development project. God is faithful to His Promises, and He has promised that we are saved and belong to him. Let’s sing Amazing Grace.

Give online

using bank transfer, Card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Regular members can give online as an act of worship. visit: wsccc.org.au/giving/

General fund

BSB: 082080
Account number 482436244
Name: WSCCC

Mission fund

BSB: 082080
Account: 528560495
Name: WSCCC

Building fund

BSB: 082451
Account: 739320475
Name: WSCCC

Bible Reading

In our Bible text today, we find a very old Joshua, and there are still very large areas of land to take over. Yet God tells Joshua to allocate the land to the tribes of Israel as an inheritance. He Himself will drive out the nations who occupy the land, and keep the promises He made to their ancestors.

Joshua 13: 1-7

When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, “You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.

²“This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, ³from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites ⁴on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; ⁵the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

⁶“As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, ⁷and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.”

Joshua 21:43-45

⁴³So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. ⁴⁴The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands. ⁴⁵Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.

Sermon

Today we continue our series in Joshua about God’s fulfilled promises to his people. Joshua 13 begins the second section of this book in which God instructs Joshua how to distribute that land that he’s helped Israel to conquer.

Song of Response

Let us always be thankful for God’s faithfulness, despite our own shortcomings.