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Our Monthly Message History For The Year
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Pastor’s Message (January 2010)
Happy New Year! Hope you had a great time with your family over the Christmas and are ready to start the New Year.
As we begin the New Year we are reminded that God is on a mission, and he draws us into it. We feel that God is asking us to prepare ourselves afresh because he wants to perform miracles amongst us. Hence our 2010 text is Joshua 3:5 and our Sermon Series for January is
“Purify Yourselves” as we look at the book of Joshua to learn how God wants to purify us.
We pray that you will witness God’s transforming power for yourself in the coming weeks.
With warmest love
Emmanuel
Pastor’s Message (February 2010)
How can we be pure in a world troubled and shattered by wars, conflicts, poverty, natural disasters and disease?
Here at Underhill we began the new year by looking at Joshua 3 v5 – “Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the Lord will perform miracles among you” as our text for 2010. Some people have expressed how they have been blessed by the series but for others it has raised questions. How
We often hear such questions and one realises that we struggle with the concept of suffering. We seem to accept that the world is full of hazards but we struggle to acknowledge that our belief in God and prayer do not totally protect us from those dangers and from the suffering they bring.
In the next two months we will be learning about the way of the cross, particularly studying the Gospel of Mark.
From this we will learn that life is not as simple as we suggest at times. Suffering comes. Not only does our faith not protect us, but we will also find God at work in the suffering.
I pray that you will be able to join us as we shall be reminded that there is hope and a brighter future in Jesus.
Every blessing,
Emmanuel
Pastor’s Message (March 2010)
The season of Easter is upon us and we once again join with our brothers and sisters in Christ across the globe as we reflect on the passion of Jesus and his resurrection.
These events are the foundation of the faith. Here at Underhill we will be having a baptismal service on Easter Sunday of men and women who have heard and received the message of Christ. We will once more witness that glorious event of Easter Day as we will recollect that this is the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news.
This last month we have been following our series on “The Way of the Cross” which
we finish on Easter Sunday. We have been reminded that the way of Christ is the way
of the cross. As followers of Jesus we will face the tough, painful realities of
life with courage and faith. Friends I do want to encourage you not to look for a
soft, pleasant, easy and prosperous road. If you are facing a crisis right now, know
that Jesus has been there too. If you think everything around you is crashing down,
that was what happened to him. Maybe you feel your pain is too heavy to bear, remember
the Christ of Gethsemane (Mark 14: 32-
I pray that God will hold you through the agony of your Gethsemane.
Every blessing,
Emmanuel