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Thursday May 5 at 7.45pm
Our book this month is ‘King’s Cross’ by Tim Keller which deals with the life and death of Jesus from the book of Mark. Copies can be purchased from the Booknook.

Thursday March 10 at 7.45pm (postponed one week)
This month we are re-visiting Tim Chester’s book ‘The Ordinary Hero, Living the Cross and Resurrection’ as many are reading it in conjunction with the Absolute Commitment series. Tim is a respected pastor and church planter from the UK. His books are well written, gospel-centred, and practical. If you have been reading this book we would love you to join us. Please contact Lisa at the office 9534 2699 for more details.

Over the Christmas holiday period we will be reading –
Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas
At over 500 pages, this is our biggest project so far, but the book is enormously popular, has received excellent reviews and we have two whole months to read it! Copies are available from the Booknook. Pick up your copy and join us for our first meeting in 2011 on February 10. Please note we have put our meeting back a week so everyone is free to attend our church prayer gathering.

Thursday November 25 at 7pm (note – this is the fourth Thursday of the month)
Movie Club – Reel Fellowship is held at church. Join us in watching ‘Bright Star’ followed by an open discussion on this movie and how it relates to our faith. The movie is rated PG. Here is the link for more information http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810784/

Thursday November 11 at 7.45pm (postponed from Nov 4)

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to ‘Our Father Below’. At once wildly comic, deadly serious and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man.

Copies are available from the booknook. This is our last meeting for the year. For address details contact the church office 9534 2699.

Thursday October 14 at 7.45pm
If you’ve been waiting for a really effective riposte to the ‘new atheism’ of Richard Dawkins and others, here it is – gently humorous, highly readable, deeply serious, razor sharp, and written by an internationally respected scientist. Who made God? dismantles the arguments and pretensions of scientific atheism and presents a robust biblical theism as a positive, and altogether more convincing, alternative.

Why not pick up a copy of Who made God from the booknook at church, have a read, and join us at our October meeting. You will be most welcome. Email the church office for more details.

Thursday August 5 at 7.45pm.  Our book this month is “The Folly of Prayer” by Matt Woodley.

In this book Woodley strips away all the religious-speak and presuppositions we have about prayer, distilling it to the essence of wholehearted engagement with the living God. Exploring an earthy, unadorned, jargon-free approach to prayer, Woodley unpacks a host of fresh synonyms for God-encounters, including prayer as desperation, invocation, mystery, astonishment, groaning and even absence. These marginal ways of praying compel us to engage marginal people–the desperate, the groaning, the victimized and the ignored. As we pray God will open our eyes to the pain of the world around us. With stories from his own experience and biblical and historical examples, Woodley gives fresh language to describe a life grounded in prayer that leads to compassion and service.

Copies are available at the booknook. Join us on Facebook!  Please contact the church office for details.

Thursday June 3 at 7.45pm

The Bible tells us that the human heart is an “idol-factory”, taking good things and making them into idols that drive us. In Counterfeit Gods, Keller applies his trademark approach to show us how a proper understanding of the Bible reveals the unvarnished truth about societal ideals and our own hearts.
The First Thursday Bookclub is reading Counterfeit Gods by Tim Keller. We would love you to join us. The book is available from the church Booknook.
Contact the church office 9534 2699 for more details.

Thursday April 8 at 7.45pm
This month we are reading Tim Chester’s book “The Ordinary Hero, Living the Cross and Resurrection”. Tim is a respected pastor and church planter from the UK. His books are well written, gospel-centred, and practical. We are looking forward to sharing this book together and would love you to join us. Please contact Lisa at the office 9534 2699 for more details.