The One About the Two Debtors (A Sermon on Luke 7:36-50)
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…
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The One About the Rich Fool (A Sermon on Luke 12:13-21)
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…
The One About the Net (A Sermon on the Parable of the Dragnet in Matthew 13:47-50)
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…
The One About Crunching Numbers (A sermon on The Parable about Building a Tower and Going to War)
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…
The One About the Law Keeper and the Law Breaker (A Sermon about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector – Luke 18:9-14)
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…
Parable of the Mustard Seed (The One About the Yellow Condiment)
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…
Intro to the Parables
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…
God as Found in Lars and the Real Girl
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…
God as Found in Adbusters
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…
Genesis In Context: In Light of the Enuma Elish
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…
Misconceptions of Blessings
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…
[Re]Deeming – How Genesis 12 Fits
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…
The Kingdom: Making Spectacles
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…
I’ll Step on Your Head (Sermon at Jr. High Retreat)
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…
The Wrong Boat (Sermon at the FRWY)
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…