We interrupt your regularly scheduled sermon to bring you this important message … As you know, we’ve been reading through the Gospel of John together. I was supposed to speak on the woman at the well this morning. God changed my mind. After a lot of prayer, thought, and converging circumstances, I decided to shift Read more
I’ll start this message blurb the way the message ended. What’s the nicest thing you could ever imagine someone doing to you? Seriously, give that question a moment to sink in. Now, go and bless someone else in the same way without sharing your good deed with others. Sometimes we miss the simple things in Read more
I feel like this is the most important message I’ve ever had to preach here. If you know me very well, you might expect me to try to find an angle or an odd way of looking at a verse that is so overly familiar. Not this time. John 3:16 deserves its fame. Click the Read more
When you hear the phrase, “religious zealot”, what comes to mind? Street-corner preachers? Televangelists? Terrorists? For Jesus, zeal was a good thing. He even added a political zealot to his cast of disciples! (Although Jesus radically redefined where that zeal was to be placed and how it should be enacted.) In the second half of Read more
Pop quiz. Put yourself in the shoes of the Messiah. You’re God the Father’s specially anointed person who will announce the arrival of the Kingdom of God and die for the sins of the world. What’s the first big miracle you would perform? Cure world hunger? Supernaturally transform all weaponry into farming equipment? Walk into Read more
Sunday was a real treat. Fresh back from their six-year term in Zimbabwe at the Village of Hope, Gord and Anita Cooledge shared the morning with us. After Anita gave an update on the Village and her own family, Gord spoke on what it means to leave a legacy—a Godprint—on the world around us. You Read more
Andrew, Philip, Simon Peter, Nathaniel. It can be intimidating to hear the names of Jesus’ disciples. After all, if you check their Wikipedia entries, they all have “Saint” before their names! Fortunately for us, Jesus’ followers were ordinary people who made plenty of mistakes. More than that, they seemed to continually miss the point of Read more
One of the things that all four gospels have in common is the ministry of John the Baptist. He was born under miraculous circumstances to Elizabeth and Zechariah six months before Jesus was born. Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Elizabeth were relatives, which makes Jesus and John the Baptist relatives by human descent. In Read more
I chose to speak on John’s gospel because it’s such a direct account of Jesus’ life . . . at least after you get through the prologue! John 1:1-18 is a highly stylized, almost poetic introduction to his Gospel. It presents Jesus not just as a baby in a manger, but as the co-creator of Read more
After a lot of thinking and praying, I’ve decided to launch a big project this fall: we’re going to read through the entire Gospel of John together as a church. Over the years, we’ve spent time in Ecclesiastes and Colossians, discussed Spiritual Gifts and Virtues, and examined the Life of Elijah, to name a few Read more
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