Many of you will use this website primarily to access messages that you may listen to during the week. It is both humbling and gratifying to know that at some point this week you will take a jog or a drive or a break in the office chair and listen to the words here. We hope you are blessed and nourished.
Series: Easter Sunday
"The disciples spent much of Easter weekend in a locked room. This would be called the “bottle episode” in the unfolding drama of the Easter story. It’s a long scene with little movement as each of the disciples comes to terms with what happened on Good Friday. But when they emerge from the locked room, they are a group transformed with faith and power and boldness. Only one thing explains this transformation: something happened in that locked room – an encounter with the risen Christ."
Scripture: John 20: 19 - 31
Message: 'The Other Resurrection'
Series: Controversy was the Crime
"Every generation wishes to believe that we were the only ones who had to walk to school uphill both ways; we were the ones who worked the hardest, complained the least, and never had anything handed to us. And now you can understand how the generation of his day reacted to Jesus – after everything that they had worked for it seemed Jesus was just handing it out for free. "
Scripture: Matthew 20: 1 - 6, 13: 24 - 30
Message: Pt. 4 'Every Generation'
Series: Controversy was the Crime
"They found themselves on the wrong side of history. Like coal miners in the 21st Century, history passed by the religious people of the 1st Century. But not without a fight; one that reached its climax in the death of Christ. Jesus scandalized their religious rituals and traditions in order to place history on the side of those who embrace relationship instead; relationship with Christ, and one another."
Scripture: Hebrews 10: 1 - 18
Message: Pt. 3 'Kicking at the Obstacles'
Series: Controversy was the Crime
"Zach Morris was a preppie, Ferris Bueller was a troublemaker. Every high school has its distinct cliques and clans but that is not ideal - it is, after all, high school. Jesus united twelve individuals each from very different walks of life and formed something the world had never seen - a discipleship movement capable of far greater drama, beauty and transformation, than if we all remained in one clique or clan."
Scripture: Mark 3: 13 - 19, 31 - 35
Message: Pt. 2 'Kin, Clan, Clique'
Series: Controversy was the Crime
Scripture: John 2: 13 - 25
Message: Pt. 1 'Temple'
Scripture: Nehemiah NIV Introduction; Nehemiah 1
Message: 'not just another brick in the wall'
Series: Emoji
Scripture: Luke 7: 36 - 50
Message: Pt. 4 'Love'
Series: Emoji
Scripture: John 11: 17 - 37
Message: Pt. 3 'Grief'
Series: Emoji
Scripture: Psalm 103
Message: Pt. 2 'Fear'
Series: Emoji
Scripture: Genesis 18: 9 - 15; 21: 1 - 7
Message: Pt. 1 'Laughter'
New Year's Eve
Scripture: Esther 4: 9 - 17
Message: 'time' for Esther
Series: Follow the Star
Scripture: Luke 2: 1 - 7
Message: making space
Series: Follow the Star
Scripture: Matthew 1: NIV Introduction, excerpts
Message: the whole holy family
Series: Follow the Star
Scripture: 2 Peter 3
Message: the other advent
Series: Follow the Star
Scripture: Revelation 12
Message: cosmic Christmas
Scripture: NIV Introduction: The Book of Job; Job 2: 1 - 20
Message: ‘The Book of Job'
SERIES: "500" - top three ideas, 500 years later
Scripture: 1 Peter 1: 22 – 2: 3; 2 Peter 3: 14 – 18
Message: ‘always reforming'
SERIES: "500" - top three ideas, 500 years later
Scripture: Ephesians 1
Message: ‘loved you first'
SERIES: "500" - top three ideas, 500 years later
Scripture: Isaiah 40: 6 - 31
Message: ‘sovereignty'
SERIES: Sibling of the Seven
Scripture: Revelation 3: 14 - 22
Message: ‘three taps'
SERIES: Thanksgiving
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5: 13 - 20
Message: ‘beyond reason'
SERIES: Sibling of the Seven
Scripture: Revelation 3: 1 - 6
Message: ‘asleep in Sardis'
SERIES: Sibling of the Seven
Scripture: Revelation 2: 12 – 29
Message: ‘how did we end up here?'
SERIES: Sibling of the Seven
Scripture: Revelation 2: 8 - 11, 3: 7 - 13
Message: ‘the that'
SERIES: Sibling of the Seven
Scripture: Revelation 2: 1 - 7
Message: ‘your first love'
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 4
Message: ‘the missing word and the secret'
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 3: 1 - 14
Message: ‘Listicles and Other Rubbish'
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 2: 19 - 30
Message: ‘Elder Epaphroditus'
SERIES: Canada Day 150
Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7: 11 - 22
Message: the invisible Canada
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 2: 1 - 18
Message: ‘running (better) on empty'
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 1: 12 - 30
Message: ‘Paul's Cell Group’
SERIES: Confined, but not solitary. Fastened, but free. From jail, with joy, love Paul.
Scripture: Philippians 1: 1 – 11
Message: ‘Ragtag in Philippi’
SERIES: ‘What do we really mean when we say _______?’
Scripture: Acts 2: 14 - 41
Message: repent
SERIES: ‘What do we really mean when we say _______?’
Scripture: Luke 17: 20 - 25
Message: kingdom
SERIES: ‘What do we really mean when we say _______?’
Scripture: Genesis 3
Message: sin
SERIES: ‘What do we really mean when we say _______?’
Scripture: Luke 4: 14 - 30
Message: good news
SERIES: ‘What do we really mean when we say _______?’
Scripture: Ephesians 2: 4 – 10; Luke 15: 25 – 32
Message: grace
SERIES: Easter
Scripture: John 20: 1 - 16
Message: the only remaining theory
SERIES: Parable and Passion
Scripture: Matthew 22: 1 - 14
Message: not looking like that, you won't
SERIES: Parable and Passion
Scripture: Matthew 13: 31 – 35
Message: it’s gotta start somewhere
SERIES: From Parable to Passion
Scripture: Luke 13: 1 – 9
Message: give it time
SERIES: From Parable to Passion
Scripture: Matthew 21: 28 – 46
Message: beyond the road paved with good intentions
SERIES: From Parable to Passion
Scripture: Matthew 21: 33 – 46
Message: where’s the fruit?
SERIES: The Doomsday Clock
Reading: Revelation 12
Message: the view from Meggido
SERIES: The Doomsday Clock
Reading: NIV Intro: Revelation; Revelation 1: 1 – 3; 22: 16 – 21
Message: life in the last days
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 12: 1 – 8
Message:Pt.6: before I sign-off
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 9: 1 – 12
Message: Pt. 5: who could have predicted?
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 4: 4 – 12
Message: Pt. 4: your hands
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3
Message: Pt.3: for all a time and a time for all
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 1: 12 – 2: 11
Message: Pt. 2: the grand undertaking
SERIES: The Inner Cynic
Reading: Ecclesiastes 1: 1 – 11
Message: when there’s nothing new under the sun
SERIES: “From Fullness to Emptiness (and Back Again)”
Reading: Ruth 4: 1 – 13
Message: the first Christmas in Bethlehem
SERIES: “From Fullness to Emptiness (and Back Again)”
Reading: Ruth 3: 1 – 13
Message: cross the threshing floor
SERIES: “From Fullness to Emptiness (and Back Again)”
Reading: Ruth 2: 1 – 10
Message: the door
SERIES: “From Fullness to Emptiness (and Back Again)”
Reading: Ruth 1: 1 – 18
Message: in anticipation of the last word
SERIES: Year of the Yubel
Scripture: Luke 15: 11 – 24
Message: [Pt. 2] The New Yubel
SERIES: Year of the Yubel
Scripture: Luke 4: 14 – 30
Message: [Pt. 1] Time to Sound the Yubel
SERIES: BIG
Reading: Romans 12: 1 – 8 (The Message)
Message: Pt. 4: Big Reform
Series: BIG
Message: Pt. 3: Big Book
Scripture: Luke 10: 25 – 29
SERIES: BIG
Message: Pt. 2: Big Gifts
Scripture: Ephesians 2: 1 – 10
SERIES: BIG
Reading: Isaiah 45
Message: Pt. 1: Big God