Hi, Happy New Year! Stephen Taylor is away for the next two Sundays so I (Jon) will be taking the services. Today the sermon is about 2 things you can do…
Hi, Welcome to 2022! For many of us, the new year starts with a holiday from work. But can I encourage you not to take a holiday from the Lord…
Hi, Now that Christmas is over we can breathe a sigh of relief! And we can clear some extra space in our timetables to worship God. So, whether you are…
Merry Christmas! Not everyone will be able to get to Church this Christmas time so we have provided a video service to enable you to keep Jesus at the centre of…
Hi, So we have seen yet another twist in the COVID story this week, with cases on the increase but hospitalisations remaining stable. The NSW government has again released some…
Hi, Today we are having our special Kids Church presentation as part of our 10:30am service. This year has been a very disrupted one for our Kids Church so we…
Hi, Today we celebrate together the Lords Supper. A sign of our unity in Christ and our dependence upon Christ. If you can join us at our physical church service…
Hi Mike, Hope you are well this morning. Yesterday we had a great day putting in our community garden, many thanks to those who braved the rain to do the…
Friends, Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. 3 For the Lord is the great God, the great…
Hi, Today we are having a real treat, we are baptising Clement Brown. This would normally be a celebration for the whole Church but in COVID times things are never…
Hi, There has been a lot of talk about opening up in the last few weeks. Every Sunday we are called to open ourselves up to the Lord and what…
Hi, We had a great time last Sunday with those who were able to come to Church. It was so good to see many whom we had not seen for…
Hi, It is great news that today we will be able to meet in person at Swansea (8am) and Charlestown (9am, 10:30am & 6pm). We are planning to also have…
Hi, According to the NSW Government we will ALL be able to meet next Sunday 24th October for worship. Whether we are vaccinated or unvaccinated. What great news! We will…
Hi Mike, I hope you're looking forward to things opening up, and especially the Church opening up in the next few weeks. We will be starting services again when we…
How are you all travelling? The last few weeks have been difficult for many, during lockdown, with normal life put on hold. There were times when it seemed that there…
Hi, As we continue to meet virtually, let us continue to remember the importance of worshipping our great God. I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your…
Hi, "Long before you gave birth to the earth and before the mountains were born, you have been from everlasting to everlasting, the one and only true God." (RSV). Let us…
Hi, We are now getting towards the end of the book of Ezekiel, a book that charters the course for hope in the midst of judgement for the people of…
Hi, Today we are going to celebrate the Lords Supper. So if would be great if you could go and get some bread and some juice in order to be…
Hi, From the very beginning the Lord set aside a day of rest and worship to be HIS day, the Lord's day. For most Christians today that day is Sunday.…
Hi, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." (Ephesians 1:3) What a great…
Hi Friends, It is so disappointing to be in lockdown. But the word of God is never locked down, nor can the true worship of God ever be hindered by…
Hi, Isn't it great to know God loves you? In spite of everything that seems to go wrong in our world and our lives, we can look to Jesus Christ…
Hi, Paul Barnes will be leading our worship this morning and especially looking at the tempation of Jesus. It is such a helpful passage and one that has so much…
Hi, Isn't it wonderful that we have acess to modern technology? For the vast majority of us we will be able to continue to worship God in person at one…
This Sunday I begin a sermon series on Ezekiel, a book that I have never preached on before nor ever heard a sermon series on (have you?) It is amazingly…
Once again, we are faced with restrictions from physically meeting but let us remember that we are never restricted from our meeting with the true and living God. So here…
From all of us here at Charlestown and Swansea Presbyterian churches we hope you have a wonderful Christmas Day and we look forward to seeing you again in the New…
It's now only 5 sleeps to Christmas! and it has been a strange build-up this year hasn't it? Less Christmas celebrations because of COVID. More subdued. I am not hearing…