108 The Valley Avenue, Gungahlin, ACT 2912
9:30am All Age Worship
Rev. Jonathan Barker
Bible Readings
Deuteronomy 30:11-20
Matthew 22:15-23
Greetings to the Gungahlin Uniting community
Today we conclude our series featuring THE GREAT ESCAPE. The pilgrims are on the cusp of entering into the promised land. Moses (who will not make it himself) challenges the people to make a decision – the choice being fundamentally to “choose life”.
Behind such a choice, there is always the further question – life for whom?
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?
Inviting you to think about our own church community the wider church, the world!
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.”