We’ve reached one of my favourite passages in John: the story of the woman at the well. Last Sunday we took a careful look at the dialogue between Jesus and the Samaritan woman and learned just what it means to be people who worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking Read more
November 21, 2011 in Messages by Pastor Steve
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Over the last 2,000 years, the Christian religion spread from the death of its founder (which is usually a sure sign of failure), to around 2 billion people. As a believer, I do tend to think that the Spirit of Christ had a lot to do with it’s spread. Still, the fact remains: Christianity has Read more
February 22, 2011 in Messages by Pastor Steve
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So we now know the goal of our Christian life: to be priests and kings, to worship and reign. As it was in the beginning, is now, and evermore shall be, world without end. So how do we get there? In this message we looked at how Paul used the metaphor of “morning” to describe Read more
January 31, 2011 in Messages by Pastor Steve
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What a great day. We prayed for sunshine, and boy was it beautiful (if a little hot)! In case you were not able to make it out, we sang songs themed around five words of worship—words that are left untranslated in scripture: Hallelujah — “Praise the Lord” Hosanna —”Save, please!” Abba —”Father” Maranatha —”Our Lord, Read more
July 6, 2010 in News by Pastor Steve
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] This is the second of Jesus’ two stories about grace. While both parables make the same main point (we’ve been forgiven much, so we need to forgive others), the narrative that frames this second brief parable contributes a lot of depth to the point. This Sunday we worked Read more
September 21, 2009 in Messages by Pastor Steve
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There’s no message to post from this Sunday, because I didn’t end up preaching—which is very odd for me! Here’s what happened: As I was finishing the worship set, I felt like we should take some time and pray for each other’s needs. We shared our requests and assigned different people to pray for each Read more
September 1, 2009 in Messages by Pastor Steve
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