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Clarence Valley Community Church welcomes all to worship God and hear the Bible taught. (Cnr of Norrie and Bent Street).
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Our new morning service is at 10am Sundays at 86 Norrie Street, South Grafton. Our afternoon service is at 3pm Sundays at the SDA Hall, 39 Church Street, Maclean.

08/09/2026

Jesus’ ministry begins with a rather rocky start – in His hometown of Nazareth, He is almost thrown off a cliff because of how he spoke in the synagogue, information that they were not ready to receive that He is the one who has come as the Messiah. Moving now to Capernaum, Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah that a great light has been seen in Galilee of the Gentiles. We also will have Jesus calling the people to repent, picking up from where John left off, now that John the Baptist is in prison. In this sermon, we will discuss what repentance actually means and how we can apply it to both sharing the gospel with those who do not believe and also apply to our own lives as we go on with a mind changed to serve God instead of serving our old former ways.

01/09/2026

Matthew will go on to give us every hope and encouragement to put our faith in Jesus. In our lives, we have compromised our integrity, our righteousness and holiness before God, but in this section, Matthew 4, we will see that Jesus will be tempted just as we have been tempted, yet, He will remain faithful to His integrity, His righteousness and holiness. This is wonderful for us to come to understand that Jesus is the perfect High Priest and our sacrifice for sin that He would endure, because of His love for us, temptation from Satan himself. This also gives us every confidence to live a life for Him, knowing that we are freely forgiven by Jesus, we have a clear conscience before God because Jesus has made us clean. In addition, we can share what we know the good news of the gospel to others, pointing them to our perfect saviour, and getting busy understanding God’s word for ourselves, so that when Satan tries to trick or tempt us, we would have the weapons of war that God has given us, and that is our knowledge of His love and His word dwelling richly within us.

26/08/2026

As Isaiah 40:3 predicted long ago, John the Baptist is in the wilderness of Judea preaching and Baptising. Preparing the way for the Messiah.

John is telling people who have made the long journey into the wilderness “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near”.

God was drawing people away from the busyness of life in the cities and towns to a quiet place with little distraction to tell them this amazing news.

Repent. Stop now and make a U turn. Turn from your self-focused life and pursue God instead. Why? Because King Jesus is near!

18/08/2026

We see very quickly in Matthew 2, the contrast between two very different kings. One, who has come into the world vulnerable, innocent, and to save the world; the other, king Herod, a man who will do anything he can to selfishly hold onto power, even at the expense of innocent lives.

In this sermon, we’re going to challenge self-interest, and how our God is a selfless, loving, kind and patient God. We see that when we look to Jesus – His life, His ministry, His sacrificial death. We, as His followers, try to emulate that selflessness, that care and kindness, because we love our God and our Saviour. We will also discuss how the world can be changed through our example, showing them a different way to live and a hope that we have, because our God, through innocence and vulnerability, is overcoming hearts, one at a time. We are the light and the salt of this world when we exemplify the characteristics of our God and preach the Gospel boldly to a world that looks to its own interest.

11/08/2026

Now that our time is finished in the patriarchs, we come to see the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that through him the nations would be blessed. Also, we will see another covenant coming to full fruition which is the Davidic covenant of the King that would be seated on the throne of David for all time. This is truly the good news of the gospel: Matthew 1 announcing the lineage of King Jesus, saviour of the world, He, who would take away the sins of the people as prophesized from the beginning. We pray that this would be an incredible blessing to you and your family, and a great reminder for the hope that we have in Christ Jesus and the steadfast salvation that is ours by His name through faith.

04/08/2026

Jacob being the final patriarch in Genesis is where we will end our time together to move on to Matthew. In this depiction of Jacob’s life, we will see a man who goes from being a heel-catching deceiver to a man who honours God. It has been a wonderful journey getting to know these heroes of the faith in the Old Testament, and to see that faith is a journey that we are on once we make a commitment to make God our God and receive Jesus as our Lord and our Saviour. And from that place, God takes hold of our lives, walking with us and growing us in our love and devotion toward Him.

Another takeaway from our time in Genesis, and especially with Jacob, is we see that even through difficulties, deceptions and mistreatment, God is still at work in His people’s lives. He will certainly bring about good, and that good for us will be adding to our faith, our perseverance and devotion to our God. On the outside, Esau received wealth and comfort, but he was devoid of God whereas alternatively Jacob had a difficult life, God using that difficulty to transform him and to mould and shape him. By the time they meet again, Jacob has a transformed heart and becomes a more godly man. For us, this is good to see and understand that in our hardships, God is bringing us closer to Him and the world may go on and outwardly be doing very well but what is life without a relationship with God?

28/07/2026

In this sermon, we will look at the life of Issac, Abraham’s son. We will come to quickly realise that God’s plan to crush the head of Satan needs no human help and cannot be stopped, and by that understanding, we have great peace and hope because our salvation is secured by God and cannot be taken away or undermined by us or others. We will also look at the relationship between God’s sovereign plan to save people and our choices and responsibilities that we must take in our personal lives, because if we do not take care, these wrong choices may have far reaching consequences, but alternatively making right choices in our lives will have good, intended circumstances long into the future.

21/07/2026

As we make our way through the patriarchs, looking forward to this promised son from Genesis 3, we come to the life and time of Abraham. In the story of Abraham, we get an even clearer picture of how it is that God has been saving people from the beginning. Sadly, at this time many, if not the whole world, had turned their back again on God, building the tower of Babel, as an affront against God’s command to go and multiply and subdue the earth, but also to make a name for themselves. In the chaos, God calls Abraham to follow after Him, to go to a land that is not his homeland and to establish himself there as God being his God in that place. From here we will see that Abraham was not a perfect man but he was a man who was growing in faith, and at a pivotal time in his life when he believed that God would give him a son, even though he and his wife were well over childbearing age. God credited his faith as righteousness. And by those few short words, God is showing that Abraham was completely forgiven, as was Abel, Seth and his line, even Noah, all those who placed their faith in God, trusting Him, they are forgiven. What a wonder! What a glory! How clear God has been in how He was treating people who come to Him in faith.

14/07/2026

At the time of Noah, there was violence all over the Earth. The intention of the human heart was evil continually, and God was grieved, even regretted that He had made mankind because of the great evil that was all over the world. So, God, as divine judge, decides that He would put a stop to it. He picks one family of all the families of the world to save and bring to the other end of that judgment, and that is Noah and his family. He chose Noah because he was a faithful and upright man of integrity who walked faithfully with God, the only one it seems. So, God commissions him to build an ark, and as the story goes, he makes it through the flood, the rest was swept away. As he and his family hop off the ark, Noah soon finds himself in trouble, getting shamefully drunk and being naked before his sons. And we see that sin has followed Noah and his family off the ark and still continues to this day. By this, we understand that even the righteous Noah needed a saviour, and that saviour is Jesus. In today’s sermon, we look at how having intimate relational faith with God is something that is necessary for us to be saved and to properly hold on to Jesus while all the time knowing that it is by God’s love and His forgiveness that we too will pass through the final judgment and into heaven to be with Him in love forever.

07/07/2026

Today, we will take an exciting look at Cain and Abel and even ask why there is a genealogy of Seth, the third born from Eve. As we go through Genesis 4 and 5, we quickly come to realize that God has been saving people in the same way from the very beginning of Creation. Abel was saved not because of the quality of his sacrifice but the heart of faith that was behind it. Also, Cain did not offer his offering in faith and so God did not accept it. When Cain became angry and his face downcast, God actually asked him to follow the Law by ruling over sin in his own heart. Even here at the beginning of the Bible, we see two separate ways to come to God. One is through faith, which was Abel, the other is by ruling over sin. We also learn that Cain failed in that approach that no one can come to God on our own obedience. And so, he given over by sin, kills his brother, the righteous Abel. A sad story but one that preaches God’s mercy, love and forgiveness to all who come to Him by placing their faith in Him, not just lip service but genuine heartfelt relationship, that is what God wants and that is what God blesses.

Address

39 Church Street
Maclean, NSW
2463

Opening Hours

3pm - 7pm

Telephone

+61426504386

Website

https://www.cvcc.com.au/

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