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The Story - 2 Sam 11-12; 18-19; 1 Chronicles 22; 29; Psalms 23; 32; 51;: David and Bathsheba and … Advent?? I can hardly wait to hear how I’m going to merge these two stories together! This weekend we get to focus in on two of the greatest Kings ever to live and both of them were born in Bethlehem! It’s chapter 12 of The Story and we’ll spend some time visiting David’s amazing story with all its g...

The Story - 1 Sam 16-18; 24; 31; 2 Sam 6; 22; 1 Chronicles 17; Psalm 59;: It's perhaps the best known story from the bible … David and Goliath. It was certainly David's defining moment in his pursuit of God in his life. But for David, it wasn't a battle between a man and a giant, it was a battle between a God-focus and a giant-focus. We all face our own giants in life … at home, work, school, in l...

The Story - 1 Sam 1-4; 8-13; 15;: Choices shape destinies ... always have and always will. We dive back into The Story this weekend with a radical twist in the life of the emerging nation of Israel. They decided they wanted to be like everyone else and asked for a King. It was a choice that completely altered their destiny. With the US elections behind us - there's no shortage of talk about the im...

The Story - Chapter 9 of The Story, or Ruth 1-4, 1 Peter 1: Suffering. It comes to us all. So often it blindsides us. When life's toughest trials come, what do you do? How do you connect with God during these tough moments/seasons? Dr. Martin Sanders will tackle this issue from 1 Peter 1 and from his personal life.

The Story - Judg. 2-4; 6-8; 13-16;: Ever stopped to consider the patterns of your life? From daily routines, to behavioural tendencies and spiritual habits, patterns govern a significant portion of our lives. This week in The Story, God's people have settled into their new home, but rather than flourish, they descend into a degenerative pattern of depravity and oppression. In the depths of their d...

The Story - Josh. 1-2; 6; 8; 10-11; 23-24;: The people of Israel have stopped wandering and are moving into the Promised Land. Some wonder how a holy and good God could remove one people and replace them with his chosen people. We will wrestle through that tension. Joshua was a man like many of us with doubts and insecurities, yet God used him to answer the Battle Cry and lead God’s people into th...

The Story - Num. 10-14; 20-21; 25; 27; Deut. 1-2; 4; 6; 8-9; 29-32; 34;: I'm old enough to remember the theme song of Gilligan's Island ... remember the 3 hour tour that turned into an eternity! This week we are going to reflect on what should have been a 40 day journey from Egypt to the Promise Land that ended up taking the Israelites 40 years! Every week of The Story just seems to get better and...

The Story - Exodus 19-20; 24-25; 32-34; 40;: It's complicated. It's a phrase that has become pretty popular in our culture and admittedly, many things in life are complicated! But our relationship with God isn't intended to be. God so longs to lead us and guide us in the journey and has given us His Word and the Holy Spirit to direct our paths. This Thanksgiving Weekend, we'll study the early days...

The Story - Exodus 1-7; 10-17: Know those movie scenes where someone is trapped or tied up, and the tension mounts because at any moment disaster could overtake them? We get caught up in those scenes because we can relate. We can feel trapped, or in some kind of bondage, and desperate to find a way out. In Chapter 4 of The Story, the Israelites are in a seemingly hopeless, oppressive situation; be...

The Story - Genesis 37;39;41-48; 50: Read Ch 3 of The Story I read this week, from Steve Elliott's new book Joseph - a Story About a Family that "real life calls for real Christianity". The reality is that in the real stuff of life, we find events that shape and misshape everyday life. Could God's fingerprint really be upon all the crazy circumstances of life? Is He truly sovereign and kind and wo...

The Story - Genesis 12-17; 21-22; 32-35: Read Ch 2 of the Story If one day, without warning, God asked you to pack up your family and move…to a place He would show you, and He promised to bless you, would you do it? Throughout Scripture, God asks things of people that don't seem to make sense and then blesses them in unimaginable ways! God was faithful to Abraham and Sarah, two septuagenarians, wh...

The Story - Genesis 1-9: Have you ever sat down to watch a movie 20 minutes after it starts? When you miss the opening scenes, you tend to feel lost because you don't really know what's going on. It's hard to figure out how everything fits together, where the story is going, or why certain moments matter. And if this is true of movies, this is especially true when it comes to the Bible. If we're e...

The Story - 2 Timothy 3:10-17: Everyone loves a good story! This weekend, we begin one of the greatest adventures we've ever embraced as a church family. We begin the journey of better understanding God's story and how it transforms ours. Every once in a while, I find myself needing to go to my Doctor and he often gives me a prescription. The bible is a little like a prescription for what ails us....

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:17: Thou shalt not covet. This is the silent struggle we all feel that occasionally manifests itself in our public lives (in debt anyone!??!). What is the source of our coveting and is there a cure? Is there hope? Is contentment really possible? In many ways, Commandment # 10 takes us back to where we all started and reminds us that when we have Jesus in our lives, we...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:16: Remember Pinocchio? His nose grew anytime he told a lie. Ever wished that there was some tell-tale sign that would incriminate dishonesty? I have. Until I'm forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror only to discover that I've been guilty of shading the truth to my own advantage. The truth is, we all have a tendency to tell little white lies – to make others th...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:14: We live in an age when personal pleasure, choice and fulfillment are some of our new gods. It is not surprising that in this environment God's countercultural call to a lifetime of loving, exclusive, faithfulness is mocked, challenged and ignored. The world says that doing what makes me happy brings freedom. But God, who made us in his image, knows that living his...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:13: We learned it first on the school playground: Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me. It wasn't true as kids and it certainly isn't true as adults. Jesus takes the sixth commandment, don't kill people to a whole new level in terms of anger management and personal commitments to others. We'll cover some very sensitive ground this weekend...

Written In Stone - Matthew 22:34-40: People in Jesus's day faced many of the same issues we do. They, too, lived with a culture of fear, violence, paranoia, terrorism, injustice, political instability, suspicion and corruption. Not only that, the first-century church was deeply divided over race and social status as well. Too often, the modern church is too. But God's response to all of this is th...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:12: Honor your Father and Mother: We face the realities of being human and raising humans. What scriptures apply to how we treat our parents? What if they don't deserve to be honored? How do our parents affect the way we interact with the world? We will understand that honoring doesn't mean a perfect relationship. It also doesn't mean we use their imperfections and man...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:8-11: I can hardly wait to hear what I have to say this weekend! That's the predominant emotion I'm feeling as I think about preaching on commandment # 4 … to honour the Sabbath! There's a lot of growth areas in my life and few are as prevalent as my need to understand Sabbath and rest and God's delight in me. I've revelled in study this week and am so excited to be a...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:4-7: Graven images. We don't know so much about them. We're not sure commandment # 2 has much to do with our lives. And taking the Lord's name in vain? (Commandment # 3) Words might slip out on occasion that we regret but not that often. Maybe this weekend won't be that relevant for us. Or maybe it will! Come this weekend and allow your understanding of who God is to e...

Written In Stone - Exodus 20:1-3: Rules. Just the mention of the word makes many of us cringe and get our backs up. For some reason our automatic reaction to rules is to want to break them – or at least find all the loopholes so we can get as close to the line as possible without actually crossing it. It seems that many people tend to see the Ten Commandments this way – as a list of outdated, rest...

#awesomelife - 1 Chronicles 28: Just do it. Nike’s built a billion dollar industry on the back of that slogan. In our action-oriented world where we become a little cynical about words without actions, it hits the right note within us. Just Say Yes is the theme of our services this weekend. It’s not intended to be a pull yourself up by your boot straps and take charge of your life kind of message....

#awesomelife - 1 Chronicles 28: Dad. A son's first hero … a daughter's first love. For many of us, this is a profoundly true statement. Our Dad's have shaped us, taught us, believed in us, prayed for us, and inspired us. So much of who we have become is because of the father the Ultimate Father has blessed us with. Many will celebrate Dad this weekend … and some of us, sadly, will only be allowed...

#awesomelife - Romans 12:1-16: I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said, the biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. This may never be truer than when it comes to vision in a church! What are we about? Where are we going? How will we get there? This weekend we'll be reflecting on this transformational journey God is inviting to. There will be great stories of...