The fabulous Northside band and vocalists will be on hand to facilitate some of the most exciting celebration and worship in Sydney.
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Substitutes - Week 1: God Amongst gods |
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Sunday 05th September - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 1: God Amongst gods
n Athens, the Apostle Paul encounters a supermarket
of gods and religions. That was years ago, yet has much changed in the world
today? Regardless of shape or form, perhaps Bob Dylan was right in saying
"Your Gonna Serve Somebody". The question is what or whom?
Reading: Acts 17.16-34
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The Greatest Gift A Dad Can Give |
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Sunday 05th September - 9:30AM The Greatest Gift A Dad Can Give
Jairus is a man of great faith who went to extraodrinary lengths to have his daughter receive ministry from Jesus. In the process he suffered disappointment, & despair but nothing would deter him from his objective. The greatest gift a Dad can give to his children is to introduce them to Jesus Christ.
Reading: Mark 8:21-24, 35-43
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Substitutes - Week 2: SQUARE PEGS: Finding Your Idols |
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Sunday 12th September - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 2: SQUARE PEGS: Finding Your Idols
In a round hole. No matter which idol we choose, it never quite fills us,
yet how do we even know what is blocking our deeper intimacy with God?
Reading: Ezekiel 14.1-5
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Substitutes - SQUARE PEGS: Finding Your Idols |
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Sunday 12th September - 9:30AM: The Hole in Your Heart
One songwriter penned "There's a God shaped hole in all of us, and a restless heart is searching".
This
week, Sam Haddon explores the structures of the human heart that block
a deeper intimacy with God and what we can do to remove them.
Reading: Ezekiel 14.1-5
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Substitutes - Week 3: MAKING A NAME: Identity Idols |
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Sunday 19th September - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 3:
MAKING A NAME: Identity Idols
We find ourselves in the world not sure of who we
are, but desperate to know. And
so we create an identity for ourselves, and begin to idolise those things on
which our identity is built. But
we don't even understand ourselves, and no identity that we make for
ourselves can ever do us justice.
Only God knows us well enough to give us a true name
Reading: Colossians 3:1-5
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Substitutes - Week 4: ANTS & GRASSHOPPERS: Comfort Idols |
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Sunday 26th September - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 4: ANTS & GRASSHOPPERS: Comfort Idols
Aesop's
fable paints two types of people.
Some people are grasshoppers, idolising comfort at the cost of
responsibility. And some are
ants, working hard now in order to secure comfort later on. But both idolise comfort. The rich young ruler is the ultimate
ant! God calls us to be neither
ants nor grasshoppers, but birds of the air -- Matthew 6.
Reading: Matthew 19:16-30
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Substitutes - Week 5: TRUTH IS BEAUTY: Cause Idols |
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Sunday 3rd October - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 5: TRUTH IS BEAUTY:Cause Idols
It's a longing of our hearts -- to find something
big enough and True enough to give our lives in service of it. And sometimes we think we've found
it. But God is the ultimate
Truth and the ultimate Beauty, and only he is big enough for a whole life.
Reading: Romans 10:1-5
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Substitutes - Week 6: THE FOUNTAIN: The Ultimate Substitute |
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Sunday 10th October - 6:00PM: Substitutes - Week 6: THE FOUNTAIN: The Ultimate Substitute
We try to plug the hole in our hearts because it's
the only thing we can think of to do.
But God has other ideas.
When he comes, not only does he fill the hole, but he turns it into a
fountain overflowing with himself:
Living water…
Reading: John 7:37-38
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