Welcome
Welcome to the Hoxton Park Seventh-day Adventist Church. Our congregation is made up of 20 nationalities, people from all over the world who are passionate for God and united in purpose.
Our aim is to grow in Jesus and to develop our God-given talents and use them for His glory.
Our worship service usually includes singing, prayer, special features and a practical Bible-based sermon.
Saturday
9:30am, Bible Study (for children, youth and adults)
11:00am Worship Service
Wednesday
7:30pm Evening Prayer Meeting
Social Events: Church socials, Vegetarian Cooking Classes, Art & craft
Please visit our main church website by clicking the following link
http://hoxtonpark-adventist-org-au.adventistconnect.org/
We will be glad for you to join us for any of the above services at the following address.
Address: 355 Hoxton Park Road, Hoxton Park NSW 2177
Minister's Information
Pr. Alwin Hilton
Mobile: 0417 593059
Email: al53win@optusnet.com.au Pastor's Message
I commend to you, dear friend, five certainties for 2009. These have gripped my heart as I have spent time recently with one of the most profound and beautiful passages of Scripture, Psalm 90.
Please pause right here. Read the psalm for yourself on the facing page. This is a prayer, attributed to "Moses the man of God." So read it as a prayer, putting yourself in the place of the speaker.
What do you hear in this psalm? Does it not speak to you as it has spoken to men and women through thousands of years—to Jew and Christian, to king and slave, to rich and poor? The themes are vast and sublime: God's eternity, our transience; God's righteous anger, our sinfulness; God's mercy, our longing to experience it.
Perhaps that's why this particular passage of the Bible impresses me as one on which to build the foundation of my life in 2009. Here is one of the five certainties—certainties for my life—that I find in it.
1. God will be my security, come what may.
The psalm's opening words form the bedrock for all that follows: "Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations."
All else fails. Investments slide as the stock market tumbles. Strength wanes as our health falters and our body ages. Leaders and governments struggle to cope with increasingly complex and intractable problems at home and abroad.
At times we feel confident and bold, with the world at our feet. But in fact we are very frail, we human beings, and before long life crashes in upon us, and our vaunted self-confidence flies out the window. The poet Wordsworth wrote of "the still, sad music of humanity"—and so it is.
Psalm 90 never spoke its comforting words more powerfully to any generation. At this time of great uncertainty, God will be our dwelling place.
This psalm inspired Isaac Watts to write the classic hymn that breathes the same simplicity and stateliness of style:
"O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!"
Just as we place our arms under our children supporting their first wobbly steps, as we place our arms under them supporting their first wobbly bicycle ride, so the Lord promises to put His arms under us, keeping us safe, protecting us from harm.
I do not know what 2009 will hold for me—what dangers, what threats, what challenges, what possibilities. But this I do know: whatever transpires, whether glad or tragic, God will be there. He will be there before I even know I need Him. God will be my dwelling place, my refuge, my security.
I invite you to let God be your security in 2009.
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