Hi, We are holding our upcoming weekly service on Friday night, 17th January at 7.30 pm at Tolga Community Hall. Also, we are celebrating Australia Day outside this year!  Email tolgacommunitychurch@gmail.com for further information about this family day.

Bible References:  Ezra 10:1-44; 1 Peter 2:9; Romans 7 Ezra confronted the people over their sin especially with their marriages to foreign women.  Why?  Because unlike Ruth, who had chosen “You God will be my God and Your people, my People”, these foreign women had brought their gods and culture into the homes of the Jewish people. They did not live in the ‘temple’, which we today are called to live in.  So Ezra had to confront the problem which took a lot of courage.  God didn’t want the people to just confess their sin, He wanted them to repent.  When someone confesses they say “I’ve done the wrong thing” however, unless a person repents, they will eventually repeat the sin.  Repentance is about turning away from what you are doing wrong and going God’s way. The men listed in Ezra Chapter 10 had to not only confess their sin of marriages of foreign women, but they had to divorce the women and send them and any children from that marriage away!  This seems a harsh decision, bu

1 Samuel 16:12-13ff Joshua 1:7-9 How do we prosper?  Is it all about money?  No To prosper is to follow God's Word.  Read it, meditate on it. Life is not about waiting for storm to pass, its dancing in the rain Be kind to others, as God has been kind to me. Book of Ezra is about connecting people back to temple.  Where is temple today?  In us. The Lord will work with one person to change the world.  Jesus was the most radical man who ever lived.  David knew his election is of God.  God had appointed him to do a job.  He took his calling seriously. When God calls you to do something, and you don't you let down the side. Take the things out of your life that destroys the body. Joshua 1:7-9 If you want to prosper in your life you meditate on the Word of God. Our Churches should not be run from the grave, Jesus is alive! Deut 11:1-21 Tow  live Gods ways if we dont teach our children Gods ways someone else will teach our children and it wont be Gods way Ephesians 2

Deuteronomy 11 New International Version (NIV) Love and Obey the Lord  11 Love the Lord your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea[a] as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them. 5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged