Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

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

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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)

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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.

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Welcome to BBP Family Church’s weekly newsletter.
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I encourage you to join one. Speak to Dave, Val or Rob.

From the Pastor’s pen:

15 March 2026

The Gospel of John – the road to Easter
You may have noticed that we are using a different lectionary – The Narrative Lectionary, produced by the Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota. It’s a four-year cycle and we are in year 4. The Narrative Lectionary deliberately spreads out the Easter story over six weeks rather than the week leading up to Good Friday. So far this month our themes have been Jesus Washes Feet, Peter’s Denial, and today Jesus and Pilate. Thank you to Sean, Eric, and Mike for covering these. We have five topics left in the series: Jesus Condemned, The Crucified Messiah, Jesus’ Last Words, Jesus the Passover Lamb, and Resurrection. Yes, there are not enough Sundays so Maundy Thursday and Good Friday will be part of the journey.

Pontius Pilate and the quest for truth
As recently as 2023 a book was published entitled “THE INNOCENCE OF PONTIUS PILATE and how the Roman Trial of Jesus shaped History.” I won’t be trying to explain in a sermon that 250-page book with nearly 100 pages of notes and a 50 page “Select Bibliography”. Much to digest. Key to David Dusenbury’s book is this question: what did Paul mean by “good confession” when he wrote this to Timothy:
11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ... (1 Timothy 6:11-14).

My question to you is this: if you were asked to testify to your faith in Jesus the Messiah, how many words would you need? We’ve been asked to give a testimony at the Good Friday combined service this year. Me, or one of us. Speak to me if you’d like to do that. What is the substance of your “good confession?” Robin.

BBP - St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian History

The Original Building became the Hall The first place of worship in Browns Bay was built in 1950, and the building moved to the current site during the ministry of the Rev E Walsh. The new worship centre was built in 1965, and the old one became the hall. This original building was demolished in July 2004 to make room for the hall/new family centre.

The new St Cuthbert’s Building c 1980 James Hackshaw, the architect who designed the 1965 building, also designed many public buildings including various Roman Catholic schools and their associated churches. The St Cuthbert’s building was his only Protestant church design. The administration section, foyer and offices were added later.

The original East Coast Presbyterian Parish created in 1938 and pioneered by the Rev Morgan Richards extended from Castor Bay to Silverdale. Mairangi Bay became the centre of the parish in 1944, and the Browns Bay/Torbay Parish which St Cuthbert’s was part of was separated out of that in the late 1950s.

Recorded Services and Resources are here on our website.

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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)