RENEW NEWS
Upcoming events and insights into our community.
Unplug
You might’ve heard this week that the Federal Government has landed a deal on new industrial relations laws which will entitle employees to be able to ignore texts and calls from their bosses outside of work hours.
Unions are annoyed that the bill won’t include penalties for employers who do reach out off-the-clock, while employer groups are concerned that this will impact on “flexible working.”
Join in prayer
As we mentioned on Sunday, Renew is partnering with other churches around the City and around Australia in a national effort to introduce more people to Jesus called, helpfully, Meet Jesus.
The Body-Positive God
At the centre of the Christian faith is the belief that by coming to earth as one of us, Christ could die for our sins, rise to new life, bring us into fellowship with him, and begin the process of putting right all that is gone wrong. But at the centre of that centre, tucked away where we don't always see it, is the idea that to become one of us, Jesus had to become flesh. To become a human person, he needed to become a human body. In John 1: 14 we read The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
The Helmet that saved Renew
This week I attended the funeral of Joe Mullins. Joe died old and full of years (103 of them). He and his wife Edith (who died in 2009) had six children, and what seems to me like a bajillion grand-children and great grand-children.