Bulletin Announcements – 10 January 2016
- Today – Sunday school is on holiday until 24 January 2016. Term 1 will start 31 January 2016. See you then!
- INVITE INVITE INVITE February Friends – please invite your friends and family early to join us in February as Sam Chan speaks on some of the big questions in life.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
Why are religious people jerks?
Why doesn’t God make himself more obvious?
Why is there only one way to God?
Pray that your friends and family who do not know Jesus will respond to your invitation to come.
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
“For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing”. (Romans 7:18-19 NIV)
Our sinful nature is a foul beast, it causes us to do evil things and brings anguish to our hearts. No good it is and no good comes from it. It contains nothing of value. It is a worthless, ill, and nasty thing. An abhorrence to God and a horror to our Lord Jesus. Yet, it lives within us; guiding and shaping, manipulating and suffocating us. It stifles our good intentions, it frustrates our godly souls, it smothers the Spirit of God within us. At times I can just feel it crushing my soul, distressing my mind. Like Paul my good intentions can quickly turn bad. Which one of us can say we are immune from our sinful nature? If we did it would be a lie. In v25 Paul eventually concludes that he desperately needs Jesus to save him but before any of us can conclude the same we must first admit that we’re so desperately lost without him!
from pastor Ariel