Christmas Services

Our website calendar has somehow become confused. Our Christmas services are: Christmas Eve: 6pm family service followed by a free dinner Christmas Day: 8am traditional service in old St Stephen’s 9:30am family service Sunday 27th: 9:30 family service 7pm evening...

New Year Resolutions

Happy New Year! It’s that time of year when we reflect on the previous year, and we look forward to what God has in store for us in 2015.  Often it is a time for making resolutions to do things differently this year to the past.  For some it will be weight loss; for...

Why Australians need Christmas more than ever before

For the second time in 3 weeks, our nation is in shock.  Firstly, it was because cricketer Phil Hughes died after being struck in the head while batting.  Yesterday, a man laid siege to the Lindt Cafe in Sydney for 16 hours.  We all watched on TV.  At the end of it,...

‘Religion causes wars’

‘Religion is the cause of more wars than anything else’ This is so confidently asserted so often that we just accept it. As we mark the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1, its worth asking what role religion played in causing that terrible war. Its nearly...

Knowing his divine power, he became a slave

‘knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, … Jesus poured water into a basin a began to wash the disciples feet’ (John 13:3-5, ESV) Sometimes knowing something and therefore doing something...