Browns Bay Presbyterian Church Auckland, North Shore Presbyterian Church, Albany Church, Mairangi Bay Church, East Coast Bays Church, Torbay Church, Long Bay Church, Mainly Music, Mainly Music Browns Bay, Messy Church, Youth Group Browns Bay, Reformed Church Browns Bay.

Welcome to Browns Bay Presbyterian

We're glad you're here! We hope you will find all you need to know about Browns Bay Presbyterian.
      With Gods help we can get through this.

We are a community church comprised of people of all ages and various cultures. Our desire is to help people find and follow Jesus. This means we are discovering what it means to love God, love one another and love the community around about us.

You'll find more information about us from the links on the menu on the left.

From the Pastor’s pen:

Welcome to BBP Family Church’s weekly newsletter.
Prayer is available daily through the prayer chain and email list.

If you click on Readings and Vids for each week’s readings are in English or Korean/English parallel when you click on the Reference, Footnotes link.

23 March 2025

LIKE THE EARLY CHURCH - WE CAN MEET IN HOMES
I encourage you to join one. Speak to Dave, Val or Rob.

Welcome to BBP Family Church and our weekly newsletter.

COME ALIVE IN 2025 - GROWING IN PRAYER - JOIN US ON TUESDAY FOR WEEK 6
1 Why Pray?
2 Adoration
3 Petition
4 Intercession
5 Unanswered Prayer
6 Contemplation
7 Listening
8 Spiritual Warfare.

LOSt COINS - LOST SHEEP - AND LOST BOYS
Luke 15 has these various stories about lost things. The lost coin is interesting. For me, is more likely to be lost keys, or a mislaid remote control. Remote controls used to be huge and hard to loose. The smarter the TV, the smaller the remote. Like keys they can slip into an almost irretrievable spot in a couch. (A friend’s lost keys once remained lost until they fell out of our couch when we moved house a year or so later!) The lost sheep story we also understand - they can wander off and end up in real trouble. Both the parable of the lost sheep and the lost coin are stories explaining the celebration in heaven (and on earth too I hope) when just one of the many lost ones are found. It means they come back to God - they repent, change direction and thinking as God changes their hearts and renews their minds (Rom 12:1-2).

The parable of the lost son (or is it sons?) is a much longer story with great detail. It’s sometimes called the parable of the prodigal son. Of course it’s about two sons - and we need to compare and contrast them in order to grasp the radical nature of grace. Tim Keller turns the idea on its head by talking about the “Prodigal God.” It’s really the generosity of God that is hard for us to comprehend. He reminds us that there were two groups of people around Jesus when he tells this story. Tax collectors and sinners, and then Pharisees and teachers of the law. Tax collec- tors and sinners are like younger brothers - they run off and live anywhere they want. The Pharisees and teachers of the law are like the older brother. They stay home, comply, and are very good. These two sons represent these two groups of people. One group figures things out through self-discovery, and the other favours moral conformity. Each group thinks they are right. Jesus says to them - you’re both wrong, lost, and far from home. Amazing grace, radical love, steady faith, unmovable hope, and a whole new start and creation awaits for those who trust Jesus (2 Cor 5:17). Hence the cross.

Blessings and peace,

Robin

Recorded Services and Resources are here on our website.

On the menu on the left side of the screen you can click on
Readings & Vids to find each week's readings in English or Korean/English parallel. Previous services and readings are also found there. There are pages with each week’s newsletter, rosters and various other resources On the Browns Bay Presbyterian website. See https://bbpsermons.wordpress.com/ for written sermon texts.

  

‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (1:14)

GREAT NEWS:- Messy Church

Messy Church has arrived! Come and Join us for Church with a Difference. First Friday of the Month! for information click here.

Facebook.

To get more information about our life and share in weekly readings and prayers, find us on Facebook by clicking on the link on the Left:

recoded November 2019