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Next Steps

April 28th, 2013

Peter and his friends had been waiting for Jesus in Galilee and Peter looks for something to do, so he is going to go fishing and some of the other disciples decide to join in.  The fish all night and don’t catch anything.  The next morning, at daybreak, Jesus shows up and asks if they caught anything.  Not knowing it was Jesus, they reply no and Jesus says ‘throw your nets on the right side ...

Believing the Un-Believable

March 31st, 2013

Jesus had been crucified and placed in the tomb of Joseph with the help of his friend Nicodemus, two men of the Jewish Sanhedrin who secretly were sympathetic to Jesus.   That would have been late in the afternoon of Friday. 

Early Sunday morning, Mary, the Magdalene, had made her way to the tomb with a few friends.  They went to mourn .  In the culture of the day, they did not pretend that d ...

God's Love For Us

March 24th, 2013

We have a problem – God Loves You & I!

We most likely would not consider the fact that God Loves you as a problem, but for you and I today, it is. 

Rom 5:6-8  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love ...

Jesus on Trial

March 17th, 2013

Trials are designed to discover if the charges laid against someone are true or not. 

In one short scene, Jesus was put on trial, but when he went on trial, so did we.  How did this happen?

We start out with Jesus being taken to Pontius Pilate

In 26 A.D. the Roman Emperor Tiberius appointed Pontius Pilate prefect of the Roman provinces of Judaea, Samaria and Idumæa. 

As a Roman prefect, Ponti ...

Dealing with Spiritual Tests

March 10th, 2013

When we talk to our kids about school, one of the invariable topics that comes up is about tests, how well they have done or not. 

Tests tell us where we are, what we know, what we can do.  It reveals our strengths and weaknesses.

No one likes tests.  Almost everyone wants to avoid tests. 

 

Socrates said “An unexamined life is not worth living”.

 

Peter was about to be examined, to be expose ...

Trust

March 6th, 2013

Trust

I have had to ask myself how much I am willing to trust God this week. One factor in this questioning was the fact that I was given the text of John 18:1-11 to preach from last Sunday (read the sermon notes here; listen to the sermon here). This passage is about the arrest of Jesus by a mob of soldiers, priests, servants, and Pharisees. The main message that came out of the text was th ...

Surrender

March 5th, 2013

The Dark Knight Rises is a retelling of one of the oldest stories written into the very fabric of the universe. Many of the great novels, odes, epic poems, and movies of all time tell the story of sacrifice. There are many variations on the theme but the powerful message of the king who lays down his life for his people; or the brother, husband, father, sister or mother, who substitutes his o ...

Becoming a Friend of God

February 24th, 2013

This month we have been talking about relationships – what it is to build healthy friendships with others, healthy marriages, healthy neighbourhoods.   One of the things we discovered is the kinds of relationships we want & need do not happen by themselves… they take our initiative.  If we want a friendship like David & Jonathan we are going to have to be courageous and take initiative.  Then ...

Being a Good Neighbour

February 17th, 2013

A recent survey conducted by the Vancouver Foundation discovered that neighbourhood relationships in metro Vancouver while cordial, are not deep.  People will generally say “Hello” and may know one another’s first names but it doesn’t go much further than that. 

Across the board, most neighbours don’t talk to one another.  30% say they talk to their neighbor rarely, if at all.

Among renters, ...

The Art of Building a Marriage that Lasts

February 10th, 2013

God has a great deal in store for us in the context of a marriage relationship. 

“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22 

There are no perfect marriages, only those in the process of being perfected.  Marriage is not a science, you can not turn it into an equation, nor can any marriage be replicated any more than any day of your life can be re- ...

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