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On this, the last Sunday of 2023, we turn our attention to the incarnation, considering the implications of this theologically rich activity of God.
This week in Advent we’re continuing in our series, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’; diving deeper into the hope that Jesus brings when He comes, and how that still rings true today.
This Sunday is the start of the new Church year, which begins in the season of Advent. For our three Sunday’s of Advent (Dec 3, 10, and 17), we will locating ourselves in a series we’re calling Come Lord Jesus.
As Advent anticipates Christmas, so to will each of our Sunday’s urge us in anticipation of the coming of Christ in our lives.
We begin this Sunday with a look at the landscape of darkness with ‘Christ is Coming’.
We’re concluding our “Through the Lens of Jesus” series this week.
We’ll be spending time looking at some of the ways that the lens of Jesus invites us to both consider and reorient our lives to the upside down nature of the Kin-dom.
This week, we continue our series on looking at scripture through the lens of Jesus. Devon explores how Christ’s focus on peacemaking may inform our approach to scripture as a whole.
This Sunday we continue in our series “Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Jesus” with Cathleen inviting us to consider that our journey with Jesus encourages a shift from a posture of certainty to one of curiosity.
This Sunday we continue in our series of reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus with Mark Dettweiler speaking.
We will turn to a familiar story in John 8, considering the shift from judgment to grace that we see in Jesus.
This week we will continue our series about learning to read the Bible through the Jesus-centred lens, with a deeper dive into Lectio Divina.
What is lectio divina? Lectio = word; divina = sacred
What does it mean to read scripture through the lens of Jesus? Or that Jesus is the one through whom we read scripture?
Join us this week as we wade into the waters of this important conversation.
This Sunday we're exploring another sacrament of the Church: footwashing. This ancient practice finds its origin in the story of Jesus who modelled servant leadership to his friends and followers who often asked questions about their own importance.
While we won’t actively be practicing footwashing this week, we’ll instead be looking at the virtue of humility that undergirds this practice.
Episode noted by Steve during today's talk: March 5, 2023 - Postures of the People - Awe and Adoration
Everywhere you look there are signs the religious landscape in Canada has changed. The most recent Statistics Canada numbers on religion Canada gives us quantifiable proof, it seems we might be headed for a wilderness experience as the church in Canada. What does that mean for those of us committed to following Jesus? Could this moment, "our for such a time as this" in the wilderness be all bad? Is it possible it might be Jesus himself calling us out into the wild?
It seems the wilderness might be our new fixed address for the church in Canada. For some this might be a cause for lament, for others, it's a chance to reimagine. If there are no tips, tricks, or techniques that can relieve us of this wilderness experience, how shall we live? What can we do as communities of faith who want to follow Jesus? What does humane faith look like as we seek to love God and our neighbors? How might the body of Christ live out its vocation in the wind-whipped depths of the wild?
For the month of October, we’re moving our focus into the neighbourhood. In this second of three weeks, we will consider the spiritual practice of hospitality, building upon this possible way forward through Neighbours groups.
To start our "Into the Neighbourhood" series, we'd like to take a look back at the formation of our Neighbours groups, what our hopes for these groups were at the time they were launched and where we find ourselves today.
In this first of three weeks, we will consider the story of the Good Samaritan, engage the question ‘who is my neighbour’, and lay out a possible way forward through Neighbours groups.
At the outset of our Summer in Psalms series, Christin led us into Psalm 82 and a consideration of how God is like the picture we see in the Circle of Security: bigger, stronger, kinder, and wiser. This week we turn to two Psalms, Psalm 130 and Psalm 131, considering once again the Circle of Security attachment theory framework as a model for faith and community. The first Psalm paints a picture of exploration, the depths, and calling out for God, while the second Psalm paints a picture of safe hands to welcome us home.
In our Summer in Psalms series we now turn to a psalm of disorientation in Psalm 137. Containing one of the ugliest verses in scripture, this psalm offers us a raw emotional response, as well as a lingering question that resonates with us today: how shall we sing the Lord’s song in this strange place?
For the month of October, we’re moving our focus into the neighbourhood. In this last of three weeks, we will consider the pace of Jesus, the idea of proximity, and how we can make small shifts toward greater presence in the life of our community.
This week, Melodie will invite us to turn our attention to the well-known Psalm 23. As we explore what it means for us that God is our shepherd, we pray that you’ll experience an invitation to be grounded in who God is and to sit with the knowledge that God’s goodness and unfailing love pursue us always.
What if the point isn’t to endure pain, but to dismantle the things that cause it? This week, we’re revisiting Romans 5-8 through the lens of Subversive Love. This is an invitation to resist the world’s broken logic by embracing the counter-cultural way of Christ that leads to mutual liberation and collective care.Discover a hope and purpose beyond the empire’s grip, in the now and not yet kin-dom of connection and flourishing, where our shared belonging is the source of our power and no one is outside the circle of love.
This week we continue our exploration through the book of Romans. Continuing out of order, we will explore the first two chapters of Romans. We will ask how the ideas we have talked about so far in this series can inform these earlier chapters. We hope to look at this passage with compassion towards those it has been used to harm over the years, as we search for the message given to this small community so long ago, and what it might mean for us today.
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