Collins Street Baptist Church

This Sunday we invite you to join us in some  prayers and reflections provided in written form. We read together the story of Jesus and his family fleeing to Egypt during his youth – refugees in a violent world. What does this confronting story have to say to us today?

Our CSBC Online Service will recommence on Sunday January 24. Our in-person services at Collins St will recommence on Sunday February 7.

You can find today’s prayers and reflections HERE:
CSBC Summer Liturgy January 3

We pray that there has been much about this Christmas season that has brought you life and joy. We are also aware that there are, for many, a range of hidden struggles and difficulties at this time of year. We hold in prayer all those for whom this season is personally exhausting, lonely, or heavy with grief.

After many months of sharing CSBC Online services via video, we will be taking a few weeks of intentional simplicity. Each Sunday we will offer some written prayers, readings and reflections for you to engage with in your own time.

Please click below for today’s offering
CSBC Summer Liturgy December 27

Peace to you all.

 

Christmas Greetings! Christ is born among us!

Today we invite you to join us as we light the Christ candle, sing carols and share a Christmas message.

May peace, joy and hope be yours today.

 

Welcome.

On this fourth Sunday of Advent, we light the candle of love and celebrate together the extraordinary gift that is ours in Christ. What’s more, we join in a traditional service of carols and readings, retelling the familiar story of Jesus’ birth and joining our voices with countless others around the world in the hymns of this beautiful season.

May you experience something of God’s love and presence today.

Peace to you.

 

Today, on the third Sunday of Advent, we continue our reflections on the lectionary readings from the book of Isaiah.

We light the third Advent candle, the candle of joy, hear from both Simon Holt and Carolyn Francis, and are led in readings and prayers by Val Holt and Neil Wright.

 

 

Welcome.

As we continue to anticipate the coming birth of Jesus, today we light the second Advent candle: the candle of peace. As we do, we reflect together on another reading from the prophet Isaiah.

Peace to you in this challenging but beautiful season.

 

 

Welcome to CSBC as we celebrate the first Sunday in the season of Advent.

Advent is a time of anticipation, waiting, hoping and longing. By observing this time of preparation we are able to move toward the good news of Christmas with intention and prayerfulness.

Today Simon Holt leads us in Advent liturgy and prayer, and Carolyn Francis reflects on one of the traditional readings for this Sunday from the book of Isaiah.

 

Welcome to CSBC Online.

Today marks the final Sunday in the church year. Next week, the season of Advent begins and a new year commences.

This Sunday is traditionally known as “The Reign of Christ” Sunday. Carolyn Francis reflects on a passage from Matthew 25 and considers what that might mean in the 21st Century.

We are led by members of the community in prayer, scripture reading and music. The service finishes with an Organ Postlude composed and performed by David Cundy.

Peace be with you.

 

 

 

 

Welcome to CSBC Online this week.

Carolyn Francis talks about Jesus, the cursed fig tree, and asks whether we have a problem with hope. Is it too easy to replace true hope with wishful thinking or delusions?

Members of our CSBC community offer prayers of gratitude and longing, and Geoff Maddock and some of the cross-cultural workers from Global Interaction invite us to join them in their weekend of prayer.

Thanks for joining us!

 

 

This Sunday we are delighted to welcome our friend, and former CSBC Minister, Rev Tim Costello to CSBC Online.

Carrying on from last week’s teaching on the opening verses of the Sermon on the Mount, Tim reflects on Matthew 5 with global issues in mind.