Nov 14

Videos on Trinitarian Christian Faith

  • November 14, 2011

Rev. Dr. Elmer Colyer presenting at the 2011 Canadian National Conference (GCI)Dr. Elmer Colyer recently spoke at the Grace Communion International, Canada National Conference, in Ottawa on the topic of “Participatory, Trinitarian Christian Faith”

 

There are videos and transcripts at; http://www.gci.org/pastoral/colyerconf2011.

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1

The Resurgence of Participatory Trinitarian Christian Faith

Session 2

The Trinitarian Center of the Faith

Session 3
The Holy Spirit, The Lord, The Giver of Life

Session 4
Embodying Participatory Trinitarian Christian Faith

Session 5
Question and Answer

 

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Oct 18

Guest Speaker: Michael Feazell

  • October 18, 2011

You are invited to come and hear our denominational Vice-President, Dr. Michael Feazell at a special 11am service, on Sunday October 23rd at our regular venue in Mornington.   

Mike is also the host of the regular You’re Included video program that features discussions with Trinitarian theologians from North America and Europe.

He is the Executive Editor of Christian Odyssey magazine.

He is also the author of a book on the dramatic changes in the Worldwide Church of God in the 1990’s, titled The Liberation of the Worldwide Church of God.

 

You can find an interview with Mike at; http://www.gci.org/GCIT025

A light lunch will be served after the meeting.

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Oct 06

Forward together, through prayer

  • October 6, 2011

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

As you know, I often close my Weekly Update letter with the reminder that prayer is the battleground where we fight the good fight of faith. It is through prayer – both individually and corporately – that we go forward, together.

There are many ways to pray of course, but not many of them are in tune with what Christian prayer is all about. There is an old saying that goes, “Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes amiss.” Just the fact that we believe something or have always done something in a certain way, does not make that thing true or right. Many prayers are focused on people’s selfish wants and desires, not on the things God has shown us are important. How many people pray for the fruit of the Spirit, for example. How many people pray for the welfare and blessing of their enemies? How many prayers are focused primarily on giving thanks? On the other hand, how many prayers are focused on winning a game, winning a lottery prize, getting the car or house we have our eye on, or on getting someone else to do or see things our way? The Bible says, ”When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures” (James 4:3).

The kinds of prayers that Christians pray have to do with Jesus command that we love one another (John 13:34-35). We pray for not merely for things, but for one another, because the primary thing Jesus has given us to do as his disciples is to care about, build up, encourage, strengthen, forgive, serve, and in any other way we can, to love one another.

That is why our prayers are focused on seeking God’s will, because God’s will is that we love one another. Through prayer, we listen to God as well as talk with God. In prayer our hearts and minds are intertwined with his, allowing us to discern more clearly his will and purpose. A good way to pray is to pray through a passage, listening to what God may have to say to us through the passage and talking to him about it.

In Jesus’s love,

Joseph Tkach

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Sep 30

The Gospel is Good News

  • September 30, 2011


Have you ever watched a TV advertisement for a product that seems so amazing and the price so cheap that it seems just too good to be true? At first you’re probably skeptical, but as you listen to testimonial after testimonial from perfectly credible sounding people, you begin to believe that this might indeed be a miracle product – the very thing you’ve been waiting for, whether you knew it or not.

Bargain!!

Buy now!

And it gets better – the price is just a fraction of what you would spend on similar products that don’t work as well. But wait – there’s more! If you call within the next five minutes you’ll get not one – not two – but three bonus gifts that are alone worth the purchase price. Operators are standing by, but supplies are limited, so you MUST ACT NOW!

So you succumb and place an order. But when the item arrives you are deeply disappointed. It looks and works very differently from what you saw displayed under the bright lights of a TV studio. With a sigh you realize you have been tricked by slick advertising that greatly oversold the item. It leaves you feeling foolish and betrayed, and you resolve never to fall for that kind of deception again.

It’s bad enough if that happens with a vacuum cleaner or a piece of jewelry. But it is tragic if untruthful advertising misrepresents something as important as the gospel. But sadly, it does happen.

The gospel is good news, the best possible news anyone can hear. It promises a new life beyond death, a life rich in joy, peace, friendship and real love. It’s the good news of a life in communion with God, who loves you and wants you with him no matter who you are, where you’ve been or what you’ve done.

The gospel is the best and only hope for humanity. It is the best and only hope for you and me and everyone we care about.

That is why we preach it, calling on all people everywhere, as far as the Spirit gives us opportunity, to turn to Jesus in faith so they can know Jesus and know the Father for who they really are, as well as so they can come to know themselves for the beloved children of the Father they really are in Jesus.

With love, in Christ,

Joseph Tkach

(President GCI)

 

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Sep 02

Church Services

  • September 2, 2011

Mornington Community Church meets each Sunday morning at 10am.  You are welcome to come along and join us.

We meet at the Warrane Seniors’ Centre, 10 Binnalong Road, Mornington.  Binnalong road is on the Mornington (south) side of Cambridge Road between Rosny Park and Mornington roundabout.  Turn left at the first cul-de-sac on Binnalong Rd and enter the drive way to the Seniors’ Centre at the end of the cul-de-sac and park on the right side of the car park.  The hall is down the hill on the right.   See photo below the map.

For more information phone Phil on 03 62431231, or email wcg3ph@wcg.org.au

(Please click on the map or photo below to enlarge)

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Sep 02

Welcome!

  • September 2, 2011

Hello and welcome to our website.

We are the Mornington Community Church, the Hobart congregation of Grace Communion International.

Please come back and visit the site as we develop it.

We have included a number of links to videos and articles that provide information on who we are, what we believe about life, God, and all sorts of other topics.  We encourage you to take some time to check some of them out.  The video series by Joseph Tkach, “Speaking of Life” contains 3-5 minute videos on topical issues.

 

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