Where To Find Us
This Crossing Bridges website was created as a form of online Christian outreach to provide Bible Studies
and an email contact service (reach-out) for people of all ages, in all their diversity and complexity,
in support of their personal Christian growth and spiritual well-being.
From time to time, Bible studies will be provided on this site.
These studies generally follow the teaching series presented within the Sunday evening services (6PM) at St Paul's Anglican Church
- directly in front of the Birkinhead Bridge -
1 Church Place, Port Adelaide in Adelaide South Australia.
You can always join us in person on Sundays.
If you would like to come along, why not email us beforehand so that we can look forward to welcoming you especially.
Don't hesitate to email us on "wrphilp@gmail.com.au"
Banking and Direct Giving
Please consider making a gift to St Paul's
Organ Fund: BSB: 705-077 (Anglican Funds)
Account: 00041403
Name: Anglican Parish of Port Adelaide
Leadership
(Locum Tenens) Parish Priest
Father Peter Simmons 0419 803 630
The Reverend
B.Th.
(Honorary) Parish Deacon
Brother Wayne Philp 0419 800 542
The Reverend Doctor
Ph.D., M.Mental Health, B.Th., B.Sc.
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www.stpaulsportadelaide.com
Worship & Fellowship
Sunday
9:30-10:30 am: Sung Eucharist (Parish Priest: weekly)
5:00-6:00 pm: "Alive @5" Fellowship Meal (Br Wayne: weekly during School Terms)
Free pizza and softdrink provided, but feel free to BYO plate to share.
6:00-7:30 pm: Prayer, Praise and Proclamation (Br Wayne: weekly during School Terms)
CLICK below for Term Program
Wednesday
7:00-9:30 pm: Bible Study Fellowship Group (Br Wayne: weekly during School Terms)
Come along to our Parish Hall (OpShop) to
learn more about the Bible and what Christian's
believe. There is usually a light supper provided
and great people to chat with. Please bring your
own personal Bible (in your 1st language) and some
food to share. The Bible Study usually follows the
content and context of previous Sunday night’s
teaching series. If you would like any more detail please contact
Br. Wayne on 0419800542, or wrphilp@gmail.com
Thursday
9:30-12am “Crafty Friends” – Craft (BYO) activities and fellowship (during School Terms)
Ring Christine on 0468 338 955 or email or wrphilp@gmail.com for details.
This free morning group is especially for people who like to engage in craft activities with friends.
You could knit a square that can be made into a blanket for the needy (knitting needles and wool provided).
For other craft activities please bring along your own resources and material.
Children of all ages are welcome but must remain under the supervision and responsibility of their parent at all times.
Tea, coffee, water and biscuits are provided, or just bring along your own snacks for yourself and your children.
5:00-5:45 pm: Holy Communion (Parish Priest: weekly)
Friday
4:00 - 6:00 pm: Jam Session
This free afternoon group is especially for people with a musical bent but
with little opportunity to join in with other budding musos to socially enjoy
their good (or bad) talents. The late afternoon Friday time slot is for
people who otherwise work (9to5), study or have school commitments.
There is no particular focus or genre or type/number of musical instruments.
It's just for fun! We meet at the back of the church.
If you might be hungry, please feel free to bring along some snacks to share.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available. If you would like to join our little
group please contact Br. Wayne on 0419800542, or wrphilp@gmail.com
Saturday
10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Sausage Sizzle (from 13 April 2024)
Delicious sausages in bread and refreshing softdrinks are outside our Parish OpShop,
which is open 9:30 am - 2:00 pm every day except Sunday, Monday and public holidays.
All profits go to charity.
Volunteers needed.
Please contact Br. Wayne on 0419800542 or Christine on 0468 338 955
or email wrphilp@gmail.com
You may need to view this study on a computer screen rather than on a mobilephone
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This week's Bible Study:
Seven OLD and NEW deadly sins…
Bible Study 1 – An introduction
Mark 7:20-23 Jesus said, What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For from within, out of the heart, comes kakos ho dialogismos (evil purposes) and ponēria (evil deeds): reordered
ACEDIA: dolos (deceit), aphrosynē (inconsiderate folly)
ENVY: ophthalmos (jealous selfishness)
VAINGLORY: hyperēphania (arrogance), blasphēmia (blasphemy)
WRATH: phonos (murder),
LUST: porneia (sexual immorality), moicheia (adultery), aselgeia (sensuality)
GLUTTONY: pleonexia (excessive self-indulgence),
GREED: klopē (theft),
All these evil things come from within, and they are what defile a person.
Q1. Discuss why Jesus specified these particular sins? Can you map the Ten Commandments against these?
What were the main social evils within the Jewish/Roman world and culture? Are they any different today?
ACEDIA: Polluting: Reaping what you did not sow
– destroying or raping God’s Creation, or just not caring enough to make it stop
ENVY: Genetic Engineering: Wanting what you have not been given
– corrupting “The Image of God” by ignorantly playing with the human genome
VAINGLORY: Obscene Riches: Prosperity, power and prestige
– seeking uncountable wealth far beyond the reality of the common-mind
WRATH: Abortion: Doing violence out of intention or opportunity
– elective murder of inconvenient or unwanted unborn children
LUST: Paedophilia: Wanting illegitimate sex
– sexualizing and sexually violating-abusing infants, children and youth
GLUTTONY: Drug Trafficking: Feeding own & other’s insatiable hunger
– fostering drug addiction in your own, and in other’s, body and soul
GREED: Causing Social Injustice: Profiting by ill-gotten gain
– exploiting and socially violating-abusing the marginalized, poor and powerless
Q2. These are the seven NEW deadly sins presented by the Vatican in March 2008.
They claim to reflect the emerging effects of globalisation on western society. Do you agree with my match of OLD and NEW?
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 2:15 The Lord God placed the man in the garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
Genesis 2:18-20 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now, the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So, the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for the man, no suitable helper was found.
Q3. What was Adam tasked by God to do? What was the task given to Adam for the animal kingdom?
ABOUT THE LAND
Deuteronomy 20:19 When you besiege a city, don’t destroy the trees. Eat all the fruit you wish; just don’t cut down the trees. They aren’t your enemies who need to be destroyed!
Leviticus 25:23-24 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for “The land is mine”. You are the strangers and sojourners with me. In all the land you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
Exodus 23:10-11 For 6 years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but on the 7th year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.
Proverbs 27:23 Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds.
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous person has regard for the life of an animal, but even when they try to be kind, the wicked are cruel.
Q4. Discuss the relationship God outlined between mankind and the land (and its animals).
ABOUT THE SEA
Isaiah 19:8 The fishermen will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water, will pine away.
Q5. What does this tell us about the lives of fishing communities?
ABOUT THE LAND SEA AND AIR
Zephaniah 3:1 Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Jeremiah 2:7 I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Q6. What does this tell us about what God thinks about our polluting the earth?
Q7. Pollution was not a big issue in ancient times, but it is today. It is a NEW problem caused by globalization. What is globalization? Is it possible for 8 billion people to inhabit the earth and not have a negative impact? Talk about what you have seen by way of gross pollution and reflect on how you think this pollution stands in the face of God and his “very good” creation.
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