[photo:B Clark]
Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars slain
Could give the guilty conscience peace
Or wash away the stain.
On Jewish altars slain
Could give the guilty conscience peace
Or wash away the stain.
But Christ, the heav’nly Lamb,
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.
My faith would lay her hand
On that dear head of Thine,
While, like a penitent, I stand,
And there confess my sin.
On that dear head of Thine,
While, like a penitent, I stand,
And there confess my sin.
My soul looks back to see
The burdens Thou didst bear
When hanging on the cursèd tree,
And hopes her guilt was there.
The burdens Thou didst bear
When hanging on the cursèd tree,
And hopes her guilt was there.
Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,
And sing His bleeding love.
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,
And sing His bleeding love.
BUNYAN’S CATECHISM
How does God the Son save you?
By His righteousness, death and blood and life.
SESSION
Due to Stuart being absent 21st, Session will be held on Wednesday night 29th.
CHOIR
Choir will recommence on Saturday 3rd March to start practising for Easter. Please join us if you are able.
MOONBI
The Moonbi congregation are having their quarterly morning tea at the Kootingal Motor Inn on Tuesday, 20th March, commencing at 10.00 a.m.
Cost is $10.00 per head. Come and join us, and bring a friend. Please advise David or Jill if you are coming, Phone 67605369.
BIBLE READINGS
We recommend you will get most out of these readings if you make a note of something to remember each day.
Sunday 26th February Exodus 17
Water from the Rock is another of the great themes and metaphors of the Bible. Salvation comes from unexpected places. People did not expect the Water of Life either to be found in Jesus of Nazareth. He is the Rock on which we stand. Sing or say out loud one of the great hymns that uses the Water from the Rock theme.
Monday 27th February Exodus 18
Moses can take advice from his father-in-law. This is a characteristic of good leadership – a teachable spirit. (2 Timothy 2:2) This chapter is one of the foundational chapters for understanding the eldership – their role and function within the people of God.
Tuesday 28th February Exodus 19
The history of exodus is important in understanding the theology being taught through that history. God saves Israel Mount Sinai . The Law, and especially the Ten Commandments, were given after Israel
Wednesday 29th February Psalm 1,2
Leap year again. The theme of Psalm 1 is the Law of Moses (The first 4 books of Genesis – Deuteronomy), and that of Psalm 2 is the Prophets (Joshua-2 Kings, Isaiah-Malachi [but not Daniel]). These two psalms sum up much of the Old Testament teaching.
Thursday 1st March Exodus 20
Do you know the Ten Commandments off by heart? Every Christian should learn them, together with Jesus’ summary in Luke 10:27. It is important that we realise that 75% of the words of the Ten Commandments are taken up with the first four! We should give a similar weight to our relationship with God!
Friday 2nd March Exodus 21
A lot of the laws in the Books of Moses are case law where cases are tried by judges on legal precedent and on the explication of basic principles (here the 10 Commandments). Case law is different from statute law, where each situation is covered by a rule. Case law often tells a tale – as here with Hebrew servants.
Saturday 3rd March Exodus 22:1 - 23:9
Compensation and restitution were the rules of ancient Israeli justice. If someone was caught stealing your DVD, he, or his extended family, had to pay you back double. Financial liability meant that extended families policed their own members. We don’t get this standard of justice today!
Sunday4th March Exodus 23:10-33
The Sabbath principle worked too for the land – it had to lie fallow every seventh year. It is only in the last one hundred years that we have come to understand again that this is a good idea. The three great festivals are paralleled with the three great events of Jesus’ ministry:– His death and resurrection - Passover, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit - the Feast of Pentecost celebrating the beginning of the harvest, and the Marriage of the Lamb – the Feast of Tabernacles at the end of harvest.
WHAT’S ON Sunday 26th St Stephen’s Worship – Glenn Mercer – 9.00amScots Moonbi Worship – Gordon Dandie – 9.00amEvening Worship – Stuart Andrews – 6.30pm
Monday 27th Playgroup – Church Hall – 10.00am Tuesday 28th Bible Study – 9.30amIrwin’t Bible Study – 7.30pm Wendesday 29th Men’s Bible Reading Group – 11am Friday 2nd Prayer Cuppa Office – 9.20amMusicians – 10.00am Saturday 3rd Prayer Breakfast – 7.30am Sunday 4th St Stephen’s Worship – Stuart Andrews – 9.00amScots Moonbi Worship – Gordon Dandie – 9.00amEvening Worship – Stuart Andrews – 6.30pm 
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