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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Praise God for His wonderful grace. Hallelujah!
The Mighty Men Conference last weekend (and for me, the meetings which preceded it) were a great inspiration. The messages were simple – We need to have a recent personal testimony of God’s action in our lives; We need to know the freedom which we have in Christ which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/03/07/pastors-notes-24/</link>
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		<title>Updated Bible Readings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
The updated readings are now on the &#8220;Bible Readings&#8221; page. They focus on the lead up to Easter and the period just after. If you read one line per day (which might be one or two readings) they will take most of March.
You can find the readings here http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/weekly-readings/.
God Bless,
Dave Q
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		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/03/02/updated-bible-readings/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greeting in the lovely name of Jesus…
Because a lot of our men are at the Mighty Men Conference in Perth this weekend, the services today at Merredin and Mukinbudin are given over to the ladies. And welcome to the Church of Christ congregation who are joining the service in  Mukinbudin.
I recently received some literature from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/28/pastors-notes-23/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: A life worth living &#8211; A new purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Text: Philippians 1:12-20
Last week, we saw that we should have –
•	A heart of confidence in God (believing that He can fulfil His promises)
•	A heart of compassion for people (believing that God loves them as much as He loves us), and
•	A heart of concern for the growth of the Kingdom of God (believing that God’s intention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/24/sermon-a-life-worth-living-a-new-purpose/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good morning to you all!
This is going to be a busy week – starting today! Four services today and then gathering steam to the Mighty Men’s Conference in Perth beginning on Friday. I will be going down on Thursday to attend a Ministry Supervision Meeting in the afternoon and the Ministers Pneuma Breakfast on   Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/22/pastors-notes-22/</link>
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		<title>A New Heart (Series on Philippians)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard recently that while the percentage of people who currently reach the age of 100 is about 5% of the population, nearly 50% of those who are now teenagers will live beyond a hundred years. There’s no doubt that our life span is increasing. We’re all likely to live longer than our parents or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/18/a-new-heart-series-on-philippians/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Valentine’s Day. Valentine was a Christian martyr. He was imprisoned for refusing to deny his love for Jesus and eventually he was        sentenced to death. Specifically he continued to conduct Christian marriages against the orders of Emperor Claudius II who had felt that young men were simply getting married to avoid serving in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/14/pastors-notes-21/</link>
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		<title>Training at the Church of Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
Wayne at the Church of Christ has let us know about some upcoming training sessions they are holding. Ron and Justine Simms will be holding the following training sessions in the next few days.
7.00pm Thurs 11th Feb &#8220;Intimacy with God and Worship&#8221;
7.00pm Friday 12 Feb &#8220;Life in the spirit and Kingdom Living&#8221;
Saturday 13th Feb
Morning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/10/training-at-church-of-christ/</link>
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		<title>Ten Words of Grace handout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the handout that was given out to go with Rev David de Kock&#8217;s sermon &#8220;The Ten Words of Grace&#8221;.
1. They are rooted in a relationship      with God
2. They outline human response to the      grace of God
3. They move faith from the abstract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/07/ten-words-of-grace-handout/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: The Ten Words of Grace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rev David de Kock (Evening service)
In the introduction to her book, The Ten Commandments, Dr. Laura Schlessinger writes; &#8220;Each day we make many, seemingly minute decisions about things that don’t really seem earth shattering. So what if we broke a promise? So what if we find passion in another bed while we or they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/07/sermon-the-ten-words-of-grace/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: A chosen people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sermon by Rev David de Kock (Morning service)
Texts: Leviticus 8:1-9, 1 Peter 2:4-12 &#38; Mark 1:1-8
‘The Franklin Expedition to the North Pole in 1845, with 138 officers and men, carried a “1200 volume library, a hand organ playing fifty tunes, china place settings for officers and men, cutglass wine goblets, sterling silver flatware, and no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/07/sermon-a-chosen-people/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a very special day in the life of the Manara family and indeed, in the life of the Merredin congregation; for today, Tafadzwa (Tee) the elder son of Constance and her late husband Christopher, will be baptized. His baptism is important for us too for this is the task of the church – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/07/pastors-notes-20/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: New Years Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sermon: New Years Resolution by Kevin Tengvall
Texts: Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 &#38; Isaiah 40:28-31
Well here we are one month down, or a twelth of a year gone already. why is it that the older one gets the quicker the years flash past at several times the speed of light? ( well it seems like it does)
I wonder, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/02/01/sermon-new-years-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome! It is our prayer that on this first day of the week you will find yourself renewed and strengthened for your journey as we worship together in this place. Margie and I are in Mandurah this morning. It’s my weekend off and Margie needed to see the doctor in Perth. Kevin Tengvall will share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/01/31/pastors-notes-19/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: Finding Joy in Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texts: Psalm 126:1-6; Acts 16:11-15; Philippians 1:1-11
Roy Robertson, a former sailor, founder of &#8220;The Navigators&#8221; and staff member of the Billy Graham organisation gives this testimony:
&#8220;My ship, the West Virginia, docked at Pearl Harbor on the evening of December 6, 1941. A couple of the fellows and I left the ship that night and attended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/01/26/sermon-finding-joy-in-life/</link>
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		<title>Things to look forward to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the upcoming events to put in your diaries.

The morning KYB Bible study starts Monday 1 February at 10.00am
The evening KYB Bible study starts Wednesday 3 February at 7.30pm
Junior Youth Group starts Friday 5 February from 5 &#8211; 6.30pm
SNAC (Sunday Night At Church) begins Sunday 7 February at 6.00pm
The Great Eastern Gathering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/01/25/things-to-look-forward-to/</link>
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		<title>Pastor&#8217;s notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2010…I know that we’ve been here some while now, but this is the first time that I get to write about it. New years create new beginnings and strangely seem to give us a new energy to do new and better things with our life. Of course the recent sweltering heat may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/01/25/pastors-notes-18/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: Calling out to be called</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texts: Isaiah 49:1-7, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, John 1:29-34
Life is an interesting journey, it is filled with all kinds of apparent anomalies and yet it is perfectly balanced &#8230; if we could only see beyond the immediately apparent situation into the greater vistas of God. 
Much of life, particularly when we are caught up in its pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2010/01/17/sermon-calling-out-to-be-called/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming church services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder about the upcoming church services. We will be combining our church services with the Anglican Church and the Church of Christ in January. This is because so many people are away on holidays in January.

December 27 &#8211; Final service of the year at 9.00am. All welcome.
January 3 &#8211; Combined service at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/26/upcoming-church-services/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Day Sermon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texts: Matthew 1:18-23, Isaiah 35:1-10
I watched a video clip on YouTube this week. The lady was saying that church music was developed to “put bums on seats and to entertain the audience”. She said that in the olden days, coming to church was the only time that poor country people could get to hear any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/25/christmas-day-sermon/</link>
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		<title>The Creator who entered His creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings on this Christmas  morning!
It was star which began the    process of understanding that which we call Christmas – a star which shone bright in the heavens and which seemed to move as if guiding those who would follow it. The Creator was shifting the  heavens for a momentous event. Wise men chose to follow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/25/the-creator-who-entered-his-creation/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
All the members of Merredin Uniting Church would like to  wish the people of Merredin and the surrounding towns a very blessed Christmas.  We hope and pray this Christmas is a wonderful, happy and safe time for you and  your family. 
If you would like to join us for our Christmas Day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/24/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Thank you from Sing Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all, here is a copy of the thank you letter from Sing Australia&#8230;
Dear David,
It was a delight and privilege to meet you when we visited Merredin recently. I know that for some tour members it was a highlight of the tour and I am sure the Merredin people enjoyed it as much as we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/22/thank-you-from-sing-australia/</link>
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		<title>Fourth Advent reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we lit the candle of joy.  We light it and the candles of hope and peace again as we remember that Christ, who was born in Bethlehem, will come again to fulfil all of God&#8217;s promises and bring us everlasting peace and joy (Light the Candles of Hope, Peace, and Joy).
The fourth candle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/21/fourth-advent-reading/</link>
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		<title>Sermon: The King of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texts: Micah 5:2-5, Hebrews 10:5-10, Luke 1:39-55
Despair, War, Sorrow, Hate ….
The opposites of what we celebrate in Advent, and yet the picture of the world that we see today. Despair and hopelessness in people’s hearts, War and aggression everywhere.
Sorrow over our many failures in life and in managing our planet, Hate between nations and religions, people and families.
BUT, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.merredinunitingchurch.org/2009/12/20/sermon-the-king-of-love/</link>
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