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Mon, 14 May 2012 14:19:36 -0500

- Don't forget to put Sunday, 20th May in your diary as this is the date of our annual Open Air Service. Members of St. Machar's will be joining us and we hope you will invite along your friends and neighbours. A Fellowship Lunch will be provided in the hall after the service and the Community Council are planning a Family Fun Time during the afternoon in the Moss Road Park.

+ Don't forget to put Sunday, 20th May in your diary as this is the date of our annual Open Air Service. Members of St. Machar's will be joining us and we hope you will invite along your friends and neighbours. A Fellowship Lunch will be provided in the hall after the service and the Community Council are planning a Family Fun Time during the afternoon in the Moss Road Park.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 14:17:34 -0500

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20TH_MAY">OPEN AIR SERVICE 20TH MAY

Services

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:31:25 -0500

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Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

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+ Kenneth began by mentioning a recent publication for ministers to exchange views and concerns in which a debate about whether ministers should give up delivering children’s talks attracted a lot of discussion. It seemed that so many ministers found this difficult that their proposed solution was to give up trying to get the message across to young people!

+ In this passage we find that God is so determined to get his message across to a rebellious people that he lays out his plan, in graphic detail, for Ezekiel’s ministry for the next year and a half.

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+ As regular churchgoers we probably think we ‘get the message’ quite quickly but how much of it do we actually retain from one week to the next and how much does it actually change the way we behave towards God and one another?

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+ At this point in the story Ezekiel is living among and prophesying to the exiled community leaders. They are no doubt praying for an end to their captivity and hoping for the restoration of Jerusalem to the Jews, strong and inviolate. Jerusalem is their great delight and the focus of their hopes and aspirations.

+ In order to get their attention and to remind them of on whom they should be placing their reliance, God instructs Ezekiel to carry out a series of symbolic prophetic acts. In a series of powerfully symbolic instructions Ezekiel is to deliver a most unwelcome prophesy that describes the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the remainder of God’s people. In five years time Jerusalem will be besieged and laid waste not because of the Babylonians – they are the instrument that will be used – but because God’s hand will come upon his people in judgment.

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+ Having just broken bread together in our service of communion, it is hard for us to read about God’s way of dealing with the sinfulness of his people. A communion service is a special occasion when we can perhaps get distracted ensuring that the table linens are snowy white, that the silverware containing the elements is shiny, that the elders are smartly turned out. But what communion allows us to do is remember that the glory of the resurrection could only happen after the barbarity of the crucifixion.

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+ We call to mind Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and his weeping for that city. He was then to die there, nailed to a cross – the just sacrificed for the unjust; the righteous for the unrighteous. However uncomfortable it might be to read about what lies in store for the Jews and Jerusalem it is as nothing compared to the day that the Holy One himself was crucified and left to die.

+

+ The reason for the prophetic ministry of Ezekiel and the reason for the crucifixion are the same. God hates sin. He cannot bear sin. Sin is like a particularly nasty germ that can multiply and divide and destroy. God had warned and warned the people to repent but they had not altered their sinful ways. Through Ezekiel God tells the people what to expect: the destruction of Jerusalem. He is exercising his judgment on the Jews because as God’s people they should know better.

+

+ This lesson warns us that this same judgment will come down on our church if we do not follow God’s ways and recognise that he knows what is best for us. We must repent of sin and resist it.

+

+ In this communion service we have broken bread and pondered God’s amazing grace. We have been challenged once again to respond to that grace and to change our ways. Have we got the message? Time will tell.

+

Service Times

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:30:18 -0500

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Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

+

+ Kenneth began by mentioning a recent publication for ministers to exchange views and concerns in which a debate about whether ministers should give up delivering children’s talks attracted a lot of discussion. It seemed that so many ministers found this difficult that their proposed solution was to give up trying to get the message across to young people!

+ In this passage we find that God is so determined to get his message across to a rebellious people that he lays out his plan, in graphic detail, for Ezekiel’s ministry for the next year and a half.

+

+ As regular churchgoers we probably think we ‘get the message’ quite quickly but how much of it do we actually retain from one week to the next and how much does it actually change the way we behave towards God and one another?

+

+ At this point in the story Ezekiel is living among and prophesying to the exiled community leaders. They are no doubt praying for an end to their captivity and hoping for the restoration of Jerusalem to the Jews, strong and inviolate. Jerusalem is their great delight and the focus of their hopes and aspirations.

+ In order to get their attention and to remind them of on whom they should be placing their reliance, God instructs Ezekiel to carry out a series of symbolic prophetic acts. In a series of powerfully symbolic instructions Ezekiel is to deliver a most unwelcome prophesy that describes the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the remainder of God’s people. In five years time Jerusalem will be besieged and laid waste not because of the Babylonians – they are the instrument that will be used – but because God’s hand will come upon his people in judgment.

+

+ Having just broken bread together in our service of communion, it is hard for us to read about God’s way of dealing with the sinfulness of his people. A communion service is a special occasion when we can perhaps get distracted ensuring that the table linens are snowy white, that the silverware containing the elements is shiny, that the elders are smartly turned out. But what communion allows us to do is remember that the glory of the resurrection could only happen after the barbarity of the crucifixion.

+

+ We call to mind Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and his weeping for that city. He was then to die there, nailed to a cross – the just sacrificed for the unjust; the righteous for the unrighteous. However uncomfortable it might be to read about what lies in store for the Jews and Jerusalem it is as nothing compared to the day that the Holy One himself was crucified and left to die.

+

+ The reason for the prophetic ministry of Ezekiel and the reason for the crucifixion are the same. God hates sin. He cannot bear sin. Sin is like a particularly nasty germ that can multiply and divide and destroy. God had warned and warned the people to repent but they had not altered their sinful ways. Through Ezekiel God tells the people what to expect: the destruction of Jerusalem. He is exercising his judgment on the Jews because as God’s people they should know better.

+

+ This lesson warns us that this same judgment will come down on our church if we do not follow God’s ways and recognise that he knows what is best for us. We must repent of sin and resist it.

+

+ In this communion service we have broken bread and pondered God’s amazing grace. We have been challenged once again to respond to that grace and to change our ways. Have we got the message? Time will tell.

+

Reflections

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:28:13 -0500

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Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

+

+ Kenneth began by mentioning a recent publication for ministers to exchange views and concerns in which a debate about whether ministers should give up delivering children’s talks attracted a lot of discussion. It seemed that so many ministers found this difficult that their proposed solution was to give up trying to get the message across to young people!

+ In this passage we find that God is so determined to get his message across to a rebellious people that he lays out his plan, in graphic detail, for Ezekiel’s ministry for the next year and a half.

+

+ As regular churchgoers we probably think we ‘get the message’ quite quickly but how much of it do we actually retain from one week to the next and how much does it actually change the way we behave towards God and one another?

+

+ At this point in the story Ezekiel is living among and prophesying to the exiled community leaders. They are no doubt praying for an end to their captivity and hoping for the restoration of Jerusalem to the Jews, strong and inviolate. Jerusalem is their great delight and the focus of their hopes and aspirations.

+ In order to get their attention and to remind them of on whom they should be placing their reliance, God instructs Ezekiel to carry out a series of symbolic prophetic acts. In a series of powerfully symbolic instructions Ezekiel is to deliver a most unwelcome prophesy that describes the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the remainder of God’s people. In five years time Jerusalem will be besieged and laid waste not because of the Babylonians – they are the instrument that will be used – but because God’s hand will come upon his people in judgment.

+

+ Having just broken bread together in our service of communion, it is hard for us to read about God’s way of dealing with the sinfulness of his people. A communion service is a special occasion when we can perhaps get distracted ensuring that the table linens are snowy white, that the silverware containing the elements is shiny, that the elders are smartly turned out. But what communion allows us to do is remember that the glory of the resurrection could only happen after the barbarity of the crucifixion.

+

+ We call to mind Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and his weeping for that city. He was then to die there, nailed to a cross – the just sacrificed for the unjust; the righteous for the unrighteous. However uncomfortable it might be to read about what lies in store for the Jews and Jerusalem it is as nothing compared to the day that the Holy One himself was crucified and left to die.

+

+ The reason for the prophetic ministry of Ezekiel and the reason for the crucifixion are the same. God hates sin. He cannot bear sin. Sin is like a particularly nasty germ that can multiply and divide and destroy. God had warned and warned the people to repent but they had not altered their sinful ways. Through Ezekiel God tells the people what to expect: the destruction of Jerusalem. He is exercising his judgment on the Jews because as God’s people they should know better.

+

+ This lesson warns us that this same judgment will come down on our church if we do not follow God’s ways and recognise that he knows what is best for us. We must repent of sin and resist it.

+

+ In this communion service we have broken bread and pondered God’s amazing grace. We have been challenged once again to respond to that grace and to change our ways. Have we got the message? Time will tell.

+

Audio

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:51:55 -0500

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Sermon 6th Mayl 2012 Kenneth Gray:Colossians 1:1-13 'Being rescued from the dominion of darkness' :
Sermon 29th April 2012 Kenneth Gray:Habakkuk 3 -'I will be joyful in God my Saviour' : |

Sermon 6th Mayl 2012 Kenneth Gray:Colossians 1:1-13 'Being rescued from the dominion of darkness' :

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Sermon 22nd April 2012 Derek Peat -'Do You Love Me More Than These?' :
Minister's welcome to Associate Minister, Derek Peat 15 April 2012: |

Sermon 22nd April 2012 Derek Peat -'Do You Love Me More Than These?' :

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Sermon 11th March 2012 - Pr~~ayi~~ng & ~~Pra~~i~~sing~~: |78" />

Sermon 4th March 2012-~~Rev~~ Derek Peat, ~~I'd Rathe~~r Ha~~ve Jesu~~s: 68" />
Sermon 26h ~~Febru~~ary 2012-~~Humili~~ty : |5" />

Sermon ~~19t~~h February 2012-Wi~~sdom,~~ t~~rue and false~~ : 13" />
Sermon 12th February 2012-~~The~~ t~~ongue (se~~r~~vice incl~~u~~des th~~e ad~~mission~~ of ~~new communic~~a~~nt, Jim F~~le~~ming)~~ : |2" />

Sermon 5th February 2012-Living faith: 00" />
Sermon 29 ~~Jan~~uary 2012-~~The~~ t~~riump~~h ~~of mercy~~: |493" />

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Sermon 1st April 2012, Fiona Castle O.B.E.rong> - Invite Jesus into your life now : 605" />
Sermon 18th March 2012, Jim Brown -Jesus the Builder : |7" />

Sermon 11th March 2012 - Praying & Praising: 78" />
Sermon 4th March 2012-Rev Derek Peat, I'd Rather Have Jesus: |8" />

Sermon 26h February 2012-Humility : 65" />
Sermon 19th February 2012-Wisdom, true and false : |3" />

Sermon 12th February 2012-The tongue (service includes the admission of new communicant, Jim Fleming) : 12" />
Sermon 5th February 2012-Living faith: |500" />

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Audio Pages

Sun, 13 May 2012 08:51:16 -0500

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Sermon 6th Mayl 2012 Kenneth Gray:Colossians 1:1-13 'Being ~~rescued fr~~om the dominion ~~of darkness~~' : 56" />
Sermon 29th ~~Apri~~l 2012 Kenneth Gray:Ha~~bakkuk~~ 3 -'~~I w~~ill be ~~joy~~ful in God ~~my S~~a~~viou~~r' : |41" />

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Sermon 13th Mayl 2012 Kenneth Gray:Colossians 1:15-23 'Alienation to Reconciliation' : 70" />
Sermon 6th Mayl 2012 Kenneth Gray:Colossians 1:1-13 'Being rescued from the dominion of darkness' : |56" />

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links

Sun, 13 May 2012 01:44:28 -0500

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Visit Teen Challenge Strathclyde squarespace.~~com~~" rel="external nofollow">http://tcstrathclyde.~~squarespa~~ce.~~com~~ or you can donate to Teen Challenge Strathclyde Just Giving
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Visit Teen Challenge Strathclyde o.uk" rel="external nofollow">http://tcstrathclyde.co.uk or you can donate to Teen Challenge Strathclyde Just Giving

boys brigade

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:29 -0500

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+ The BB Annual Display will take place at 7pm on Friday 11th May in the Cargill Hall. Come along and support the young people and encourage their leaders who work tirelessly week by week to promote Christ's kingdom among boys.
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Ark Week

Mon, 07 May 2012 16:09:33 -0500

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Sermon 15th ~~Apri~~l 2012 - ~~A B~~reakfast Like None Other:	28" />
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Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

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Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

Reflections

Sunday Evening Communion Service 13th May 2012, Kenneth Gray – Ezekiel 4 “Powerful Symbolism”

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