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Join us during Term 2 for a specially designed series on ‘Prayer’, with Sunday preaching that links with midweek Bible studies. There will be 8 sermons on prayer, spread out as follows:

29th April – God Speaks and Listens

6th May – Jesus is the perfect praying Person and is always heard by God

13th May – We pray to the Father, through the Son, by the Spirit

20th May – We pray for the Kingom to come and God’s will to be done

27th May – God uses our prayers and they ar powerful

3rd June – Unanswered prayer is a difficult experience

10th June – We have to spend time praying! We have to pray with certain attitudes

17th June – Missions’ Sunday with Omar Djeoandy of SIM

24th June – Minooka Family Service

1st July – Prayer has a powerful effect on us

All MOBC’s Growth Groups will be participating in this special series using Bible study materials prepared by Pastor Matthew. Make sure to attend your group or join one for the duration of the series.

Sermon Archive

Refuel 2012

John-Jo Burns — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:30:55 +0000

Refuel is Refuel is an annual Bible convention that MOBC organizes together with Christ Church, Mortdale. This year’s convention will take place at MOBC on Friday 18th and Staurday 19th May with special guest Rev. Dr. David Starling. David is lecturer in Theology and New Testment at Morling Baptist College and will speak on 2 Corinthians chapters 1-4. Sessions are as follows:

Friday May 19th, 7:30-9:00pm: Truth, Love, Pain (2 Corinthians 1-2)

Saturday May 19, 7:00-9:00pm: The Aroma and Image of Christ (2 Corinthians 2-3) & We Do Not Lose Heart (2 Corinthians 4)

Admission is open on the night, but egistrations would be appreciated. Please call 9570-5722 to register or email contac@mobc.org.au

Easter Celebrations 2012

Tim Burns — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:51:36 +0000

MOBC’s program of Easter services invites you to reflect on and celebrate the achievements of God, who loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son:

Maundy Thursday, 5th April, from 6:30pm

A Christian Passover Meal that traces the steps of Jesus and His disciples on the night before He was crucified.
The meal will cost $10 per person or $25 per family.
Bookings are essential and may be made by calling 9570 5722

Good Friday, 6th April, from 9:30am

A reflection on the cross of Christ.
A service of praise, prayers, Bible readings and preaching that focuses on why Jesus had to die

Easter Sunday, 8th April, from 9:30am

The first of two Easter Celebrations
A joyful service of praise, prayers Bible reading and preaching that proclaims ‘Christ is risen’

Easter Sunday, 8th April, from 6:00pm

The second Easter Celebration
Another joyful service of praise led by MOBC’s young people and with preaching from youth pastor, Benita Clark.

Prayer

Pastor’s Blog – Autumn 2012

John-Jo Burns — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:40 +0000

MOBC recently hosted the popular 123 Magic Parenting course. I’ve previously attended the course and enjoyed it. Dr Thomas Phelan had many great insights, but one in particular stuck with me. He said that when it comes to disciplining our children almost all parents deliver it with “too much talking and too much emotion.” “Are you listening to me?!?” we shriek at the distracted 5 year old in front of us, and then deliver a flurry of words that completely wash over their non-adult brains.

It got me thinking about our words. The proverb has it right: “Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue” (Proverbs 17:28). “When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise” (Proverbs 10:19). Why is it generally better for us to keep our big traps shut? Presumably because James was right when he penned these extraordinary words, “Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell… no man can tame the tongue… With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be” (James 3:5-6, 8, 9-10).

Our words offer a deep insight into our character, and our flaws. There is our gossip, our dark sarcasm, our broken promises, and foul tempered cursing. How good is it, then, that God is as He is? The Bible says, “Every word of God is flawless” (Proverbs 30:5), “The LORD has kept the promises He made” (1 Kings 8:20).

Not surprisingly the Bible says that people can only truly live by feeding off every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3). He is never unjustly angry, never ill-tempered, never tired, never venomous, always wise, never impulsive, and if His words slay our arrogance and self-righteousness, it is only because that is what needs to die in us.

God’s ‘word’ to us in Jesus is the best of all. It says that because of Jesus’ death and resurrection we can know that God loves us (John 3:16), that our guilt can be wiped away (2 Corinthians 5:21), that we can live forever (John 11:26) and that we can live new lives of profound change and betterment of character (Romans 6:7). God’s emotions are always in perfect proportion, and it’s impossible for Him to do too much talking. Are we listening?