This is one of my favourite parables. I’ve brought it up over and over again here on Sunday mornings and because I think in it lies truths that we all need to hear over and over again and not just having sitting on the back burner. Let’s read from Luke 7:36-50 Now one of the […]
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Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you? A rabbi in this time did not make these kinds of decisions on how stuff got divided. In fact, Jewish laws already had very specific
This morning we are going to start with some journal writing instead of singing. We are jumping into a pretty tough parable to digest here and so to set us in the proper mindset I want us to center around this idea: It is so easy to talk about where someone else is going after
This month we have tackled some of my favorite parables that Jesus tells. The Good Samaritan is a beautiful story about this guy who should not in any sort of way been a hero becoming one. It’s about God doing away with the way that we put people into categories and showing us that his
This is the message I gave on Sunday. I started off reading a very specific prayer. The prayer I read. God we thank-you that we are saved, and redeemed by your blood. We thank-you that you have blessed us and given us every good gift. We thank-you that you have saved us from the torment
Here is my message from last Sunday. Mark 4:30-32 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the
Here is the rough transcript of the message I gave on Sunday. It’s pretty quote heavy, but it ended up working out pretty good because of the amount of people we had, the discussion was great for it. Today is our intro week to the parables. So I’ve taken it upon myself to prep us
The movie I chose today is called Lars and the Real Girl. How many got a chance to see the movie? Lars and the Real girl is a story about an extremely shy guy in a small town. Through a few events he ends up buying a sex doll on the Internet and introduces her
This summer we are doing a series on books, movies and music and talking about where God is found in them. I did Adbusters Magazine and Lars and the Real Girl (which will be posted this week also.) So here is basically what I prepared with the quotes and everything, though the conversation is usually
This is the message that I spoke on Sunday. It was heavily discussion based once we jumped into comparing the Enuma Elish with Genesis, but here are most of the things that came up and what I had prepared. There are plenty of different names for God and we’ve gone through a few of them
This is the message I spoke this morning at theStory, I hope that eventually we can podcast these and especially try and figure out how to podcast it with the discussion, because that is always the best part. This is my message before the discussion, though I almost always would change it after the other
The following is what I tried to say on Sunday. As we start moving through Genesis we are starting to notice some parallels between themes that are present in the book that are important to note as we go further. The first 11 chapters, or the “pre-history” in Genesis, that we have read so far
Below is my rough transcript for what I shared at the Cultivate Gathering this weekend. This a long one to read, but hopefully it gets you thinking. I wanted to come at it from something that I was currently trying to understand and grasp a hold of as opposed to something that I give the
I got to speak to Phil’s Junior High group this weekend on his 24 Retreat. It was a fun time even though I only got to stay for a few hours just to speak and then I had to head out. He’s got some great leaders helping him out there and his kids are all
I got to share a little message at the FRWY this weekend. So I thought I would put up some points on here. We are doing the month on the prophet Jonah, each month is a different chapter and I was in charge of chapter one. I began by pointing out that Jonah wasn’t just