In 2024 we will see generational change at Hobart Baptist Church in terms of our governance. We are presented with exciting opportunities by this cultural moment we find ourselves in and by what has already started. We are not at the beginning of the journey, instead we are already on our way.
With guest speaker Rev. Karen Wilson
After being the keynote speaker at the EmpowHer Day of Courage on Sat 18th November, Karen will travel to Hobart to share her thoughts with us.
Karen will bring a message based on the story of Elisha and his servant from 2 Kings 6 titled “Seeing Differently“. Sometimes what is right in front of us needs to be looked at in a different way. It can make all the difference.
The Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13 is perhaps the most well-known and beloved prayer in the history of the Church.
It is the example given by Jesus to his disciples and has been used as a model prayer for Jesus followers all across the world ever since.
This prayer does not have special properties, and is not a magic formula. Nor does it guarantee we will receive everything we ask for when we pray. However, it is a guide to how to pray in a way that is both meaningful and effective.
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The first readers and hearers of the story of creation, found in the early chapters of Genesis, had little sense of the size, nature, and scope of the world nor the task the Creator gave them in stewarding it. Over the centuries that followed, human knowledge grew and successive generations reimagined life in the light of their expanding knowledge.
For example, when people could not travel freely, knowledge was limited to, and dependent upon, the place where they lived and visitors they received. Knowledge grew when explorers returned with fascinating tales of distant lands, peoples and creatures. Those who wrote and compiled the Old Testament had a horizon limited to the Middle East. By the time of the New Testament writers, it had expanded to the Roman Empire.
Luminous means, emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light and the festival aims to bring light into the darkness of our cultural moment.
Make a plan to participate in at least one of the many events lined up.
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