Bulletin Announcements – 27 March 2016
- To celebrate Senior’s Week, this year, Salt and Pepper Fellowship invites all who are “growing young” (the NSW theme for 2016) to an Afternoon Tea with Rev David Tsai on Saturday, 9 April, at 3.30pm in the upper hall. Rev Tsai, the minister of Chinese Presbyterian Church, Surry Hills, will speak about: Keeping Faith with God and man. Discussion and questions will be on independence and integrity.
- Advance notice:
- Farewell to the Nicholson 17th April at CP10. Further information to follow.
- WSCCC Combined church service 29th May at Trinity Grammar School.
- Daylight saving time ends next Sunday, so set your clocks backward one hour!
Ariel writes – a weekly Scriptural devotion:
“But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” (1 Corinthians 15:20 NIV)
Death is not the end because Jesus rose again. He died on the cross for our sins. He was buried for three days. Then early on Sunday morning before the break of day he rose victorious. Death is not the end. On Easter Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection and rightly so but on Easter Sunday we can also celebrate ours because Jesus was just the firstfruits. Death is not the end because we too will rise again. Jesus being the firstfruits means he’s the first of the crop, the first of the resurrection season. Death is not the end because our loved ones have only fallen asleep rather than “died”. The Apostle Paul writes this way to emphasise that death is only temporary. Death is not victorious. Death has lost its sting. Death is not the end. Easter Sunday whispers in every morgue, speaks at every funeral, shouts at every gravesite – death is not the end. Remember this Easter Sunday; Christ is risen, we will rise again, death is not the end.
from pastor Ariel