Box Hill Baptist Church
Welcome to our church community.Archive for December, 2009
13 December 2009
This third Sunday of Advent we are greeted in our gallery with a simple nativity scene. Above the stable you’ll notice an installation of stars, each is a Bible carefully folded, to represent the meeting
place between heaven and earth. This story of the birth of Jesus is located in both time and place and transcends our experience of God toward the heavens. The story as told in our biblical narrative and embodied in the birth of this child, the Word of Life, prompts us to wonder at the experience of living lives that bear fruit in keeping with our call. The call of John the Baptizer to repent and follow a Godly way illustrated in the birth, life, death and resurrection of Christ. We are now called to be the living expressions of that hope, peace and love expressed in the Christmas story. Let us join together with our children in celebration and praise of Jesus our King.
OFFICIAL EVENT: PARLIAMENT OF WORLD RELIGIONS
Art Exhibition: Rhythms and Forms of Existence: Earth, Air, Fire, Water. Until 9 December.
Evening of Music and Reflection- TONIGHT (Friday 4 December) 7.30pm
Come and experience the beautiful music of Variegations.
$10/ $8 Concession, Supper included.
29 December 2009
God’s steadfast love invites us to enter Advent by trusting and living out the realm Jesus proclaims. Prophets declare earth and heaven are astir with signs of a new day to come. The signs of God’s nearness and here-ness summon us to balance our longing for God’s coming day with faithful action in this day and to trust that God provides the way forward. The power of God breaks open the present to a future gifted with hope.
