A sermon prepared for Sunday 24 July – Kaikorai Church. Read Deut 31:11-13, 2 Tim 3:1-17.

Today we focus on the Bible – Scripture – God’s Word – why? Simply because we are a people of the Book, and it is important to remind ourselves of this fact.

I believe it is important to remember that this book is God’s in every sense of the word. It is God’s in that God inspired the various human authors as they wrote, God breathed in and through them in such a way that they knew what to include, and what to leave out, and they knew what bits of the story to put together and where things should be separated. And it is God’s story in that by God the Holy Spirit we too are able to read, understand and apply to our lives today: these ancient, collected, translated, oft-misused texts. God the Spirit continues to bring them to life in our lives today.

As Martin Luther the great reformer put it:

“Martin Luther–The Early Years,” Christian History, no. 34”

The Bible is God’s story also because it’s a biography and a history, but not a general history but his-story, God’s story as God wanted us to have it.

It is through God’s story that God the Spirit reveals God, likewise as the Spirit leads us through these pages that we discover Jesus the Christ and the wonderful truths of the Cross and victory.

This book the Holy Bible is pure treasure – taonga! Read the rest of this entry »

Kaikorai Kids is a great place to be on Sunday morning. Whether attending while your parents are at church or simply by yourself you are welcome at Kaikorai Kids.  We meet every Sunday morning during the school term, between 10am and 11:30am.  Our time begins in church with everyone else then we continue in the hall for our own age specific groups.

Mainly Music is a popular nation-wide program providing music and movement for pre-schoolers, featuring rhyming songs set to easy sing-along tunes.

In Mainly Music pre-schoolers with their parents and caregivers learn basic skills: colours, shapes, counting, nature, and of course rhythm, skipping, dance, an appreciation of music and the social skills of playing with other children.

This term we are starting the program with morning tea followed by the music session.

Mainly Music at Kaikorai is held from 10am every Wednesday during the school term.

Cost is only $3/family.

To find out more please phone us on 4762967; email  admin@kaikoraichurch.co.nz see us on You Tube or simply turn up.

Mainly Music meets in the Kaikorai Church Hall, 127 Taieri Road, Dunedin.

The pain of any man or woman when a child, a brother, a lover: husband, wife, or other, turn their back, rejects our love, lives as if we don’t exist. Human pain like no other – this is the Father’s pain.