by Brendan McLaughlin | Mar 5, 2023 | Weekly News
Last week’s sermon looked at the entry of Sin into this world; the event theologians call ‘The Fall of Man’. One of the helpful aspects of this tragic passage is that Genesis 3 gives us an excellent summary of exactly what Sin is. To begin with, Sin is questioning...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 26, 2023 | Weekly News
For the opening weeks of our sermon series on Gen 1-11 we’ve been focussing on what it means to be made in the image of God. In week 1 we saw how it means to reflect something of God’s glory. In week 2 we saw that humans can shine with the glory of God in how we...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 19, 2023 | Weekly News
Last week’s sermon looked at how being made in the image of God means humans share some of God’s glory. If an image is designed to reflect or represent something/someone, then humans are designed to reflect God’s glory. This does not mean humans can create our own...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 12, 2023 | Weekly News
Last week we kicked off our Term 1 sermon series on what scholars calls ‘Primaeval History’; Gen 1-11. While this is a source of much debate between Christianity and science, Christians should not be afraid of this. To begin with, science is ‘not an exact science’. ...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 5, 2023 | Weekly News
As we kicked off 2023, I decided to discuss in our Newssheet the reasons why I’m a Christian. For a belief system to be convincing, it must be (i) logically consistent, (ii) empirically verifiable, and (iii) existentially (experientially) relevant. So far I’ve...
