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- Levin Anglican Church parish is in New Zealand on the west coast of the bottom quarter of the North Island in the Horowhenua (Shaky Land) area.
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We are nestled in rich flat
horticultural land between the long flat beaches to the west and the beautiful
rugged Tararua Mountains to the east and we enjoy a very pleasant micro climate.
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We at Levin Anglican Church are a Christian family
fellowship with an orthodox biblical faith meeting in three Church buildings,
St. Mary’s Levin, St. Aidan’s Waitarere and St. John the Baptist Ohau, with
eight congregations meeting throughout the week.
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We have a full programme for
Children and Youth and a broad range of fellowship groups for adults of all
ages.
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We love to welcome new people to
our fellowship and enjoy the Lord Jesus together.
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Our range of services cater for the
young and elderly, the modern and traditional.
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◄ Please explore our web page and
use the column on the left hand side for a quick reference and access to where
you want to go.
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- Latest News
- Welcome David Burdan as our new choir leader.
- Welcome Adrienne Brewerton as our new Youth Pastor.
- Exploring a Church School in Levin. Click here.
- Men's Retreat 26th October.
- DIARY
- Please see our latest news on this weeks News Sheet.
- Also our Parish Magazine Parish Press
- See Worship Page for all service times.
- SERMON
- 080817 W St Mary, the Mother of Jesus.
- Isaiah 61v10-11
- Galatiana 4v4-7
- Luke 1v46-55
- Not an unwanted pregnancy!
- Galatians.
- V4 “Just at the right time” or “When the time had fully come” NIV.
- It was God’s choice and timing to come in Christ at this point, Why? Perhaps because this was the Roman period and the Gospel would travel through the Roman Gentile world rapidly, and from there beyond to all the nations of the world, through the British, French and Spanish empires and latterly through the American influence abroad.
- It was always God purpose to bless the Gentiles. (Genesis 22v18, Isaiah 49v6).
- This marked a change from childhood into adulthood, from servitude under law to freedom under grace.
- V4. Born of a woman, born under law.
- God’s Messiah had to be born under the law via a woman in order to represent all mankind.
- Under the righteous judgement of the law, (the penalty of sin is death). (Isaiah 53).
- Jesus carries this burden for us, the sacrificial Lamb of God born among the lambs to be presented for sacrifice at the temple. This particular lamb (provided by God) redeems all mankind.
- V5-6. Because the ‘Son of God’ died for us, his blood is upon us and we have been adopted as God’s sons and daughters.
- V6. “God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out Abba Father.” We are heirs of the promise, just like Jacob/Israel.
- Luke
- Mary is important to us, not as some claim because she is co-saviour, she is not, and not because we can pray to her to put pressure on Jesus to bless us, that is a complete heresy and fallacy and is in no way part of the Gospel or the biblical message.
- Mary is important because she is to be honoured as the one woman in history who through her faithfulness and obedience to God, bore God’s Son Jesus into human life.
- This song of Mary is a beautiful love song or praise and Glory to God.
- To treat her with great respect and to honour her is appropriate.
- But to worship her is to dishonour her because it moves into idolatry.
- We live in an age where on the one hand we recognise the abuse and violence to women over generations has been a terrible injustice, and continues to be so in our own time. On the other hand we have yet to recognise the great mistake that abortion and the killing of babies on demand has become in our societies, in the name of lifestyle.
- Perhaps this is an area where our love and respect for Mary and the birth of her Son can motivate us to say no to the killing and murder of hundreds of babies in our society today as unwanted pregnancies.
- St. Mary's Levin
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The Anglican Church of
New Zealand and Polynesia
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Paul Tucker receiving his Bishops Medal on Easter
Day 07
- BOOKS
- "How shall we now live"
- By Charles Colson
- and Nancy Pearcey.
- (Tyndale)
- A very valuable and intelligent look at Darwin's theory of evolution and it's effect on morality in the modern world. Compared with a creation view of the world and the transformation of morality and thinking in our Western Societies .
- A good basis for thinkers in politics, science, sociology and morality.
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- "Generous Orthodoxy"
- By Brian McLaren
- Gone are the old focus on divisions between traditions and denominations and now welcome the rich heritage we share in Christ acknowledging the strengths of our different expressions of faith and rejoicing in the breadth of God expressed within us all.
- Brian writes in a wonderfully refreshing way without the stuffiness of an academic theologian.
- All his books so far have been a great read.