In today’s remarkable episode (Exodus 32: 1-14) Moses gets God “to change his mind” from giving up on the Israelites after they fashioned a golden calf when it seemed that God was absent. Other biblical instances of God’s mind being changed include: Jeremiah who quotes the LORD saying “I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended” and in Jonah we also have a clearly relenting God.

So why so much emphasis on an unchanging God? Is it that any change in God would be seen as an imperfection?

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The Annual General Meeting for Gungahlin Uniting Church will take place after worship on Sunday 5th November.

9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker

Bible Readings
Exodus 32:1-14; Matthew 19:27-30

Greetings to the Gungahlin Uniting community

Our weekly series featuring THE GREAT ESCAPE is nearing the end. Today’s story of the golden calf reminds us how hard it can be to wait for answers when we are not sure where things are going. The temptation is to place all our trust in material securities and forget that we do not live “by bread alone.”

The Annual General Meeting for Gungahlin Uniting Church will take place after worship on Sunday 5th November.

This year we are electing up to seven new members for Church Council. It is up to everyone in the congregation to discern who you would like to nominate for Church Council – please read the information on the nomination forms and return your forms into the pink box in the church foyer TODAY!