Bridge Church Vancouver

1Pet. 5:1 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's sufferings and one who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers-not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve; 3 not lording it over those entrust ...

Hope for the Hard Times

A Living Hope

1 Peter 4:12-19

Sept 23, 2007

I want to start our time together with a story, one of the oldest recorded story in the Bible and it describes one of the most common and oldest aspects of our human experience - Making it through the hard times and finding hope

Job 1:6-12

Job 2:1-7

Satan was challenging God - you think so highly of you ...

We had a great picnic a few weeks ago. It was a little cold and windy but other than that a nice sunny day. We BBQ'd a few burgers, fish and hot dogs.

Some volleyball was played but mostly people just hung around and chatted or they tried to find a place in the sun protected from the wind. There were about 20 people that gathered on the Beach.

It seemed like the summer was a little bit ...

1 Peter 4:7-11

This last month, while our family was in the States, most of our time was not very restful. After leaving our van in Wyoming where it broke down all the images of reading a couple of books, getting some extra sleep, watching a sunset, those ideas began to disappear into the sunset. We suddenly found ourselves with a lot to do, a lot of uncertainty of how to get it done and t ...

1Pet. 4:1-6

The first time someone steps onto foreign land they begin to see the world in a different way. Most people remember their first time to step on foreign soil. They discover the world is bigger and more different than they could have ever known. They experience new sensations, smells, tastes, sounds. Things are different than they are used to.

I remember the first time I trav ...