Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

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Services are held here at Anzac Rd & are streamed live to YouTube.

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PASTORAL SUPPORT

For counselling and support or other church enquiries contact Robin Palmer.

Prayer requests can be sent to office for the church prayer groups to pray for you.

We will continue to pray that all in our community will cope with this new way of life, and be able to find new ways of being a faith community. We can do this!

Every blessing,

Robin
(Pastor)

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.

16 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 4
1 Why Pray?
2 Adoration
3 Petition
4 Intercession
5 Unanswered Prayer
6 Contemplation
7 Listening
8 Spiritual Warfare.

It’s not too late to join the course. Let me know and I will send you a link to watch the first week’s video. There are some questions and reflections that go with that.

LENT– 40 DAYS OF LEARNING
So last week we looked at temptation and testing. The tempter left Jesus “until an opportune time” (Luke 4:13). We know that in Nazareth his family “church” tried to dispose of him - remember how he walked through the crowd and continued his preaching in other towns. In this account today in Luke 13, there is another threat to his life.

Some Pharisees (can you trust them? They didn’t get on well with the Herodians, so they had mixed motives, I guess) warn him that Herod Antipas was out to kill him. He’d certainly disposed of his cousin John the Baptiser. Earlier Antipas was curious about Jesus (Luke 9:7-9) and for good reason, considering the stories he’d heard about this healing carpenter/itinerant preacher. Was he John raised from the dead? Had the prophet Elijah appeared? After sending a rather cryptic message to Herod (Luke 13:32-33) Jesus laments over Jerusalem, the city of God where so many of God’s prophets were killed. How he longed to embrace that city. Is she still so unwilling? The mothering protective image of a hen gathering her brood under her wings is in line with other Old Testament portrayals of God as an eagle hovering over its offspring - see Deuteronomy 32:11 and Exodus 19:4 - and protecting Israel under his wings - see Psalms 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 61:4; 63:7, and Psalm 91:4 which we had last week. Add these beautiful expressions of God’s care, protection and loving nurture to the gifts we receive of his amazing grace, radical love, steady faith, and unmovable hope. Praise God they are all ours in Jesus!

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)