Lifetree Sermon of the Week

Trusting we’re justified by Christ crucified instead of good performance inspires drawing near to (not away from) outsiders. Galatians 2:11-21 As you trust in what Jesus has done for you (not your own performance), if you can think of anyone you’ve distanced from in judgment seek to show them some love. ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transf...

Gospel truth builds gospel culture. Gospel culture expresses gospel truth. Through them Jesus transforms lives, cities, and nations. What gospel truths do you believe your city desperately needs to see expressed through a gospel culture? Galatians 2:11-21 ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more informa...

Don’t confuse what should be left under liberty or charity with what is essential Mark 7:1-23  ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at lifetree.ca. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetree.church/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifetreechurchvicto...

Despite what feelings or circumstances might lead you to believe, God’s favour toward His kids is constant. In what kind of unexpected ways have you experienced God’s favour at work in your life? ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at lifetree.ca. Instagr...

God builds in us an enduring faithfulness, that overcomes evil, through His word and fellowship marked by thankfulness. What practices and habits help anchor your heart and mind in a grand vision of Jesus? Daniel 6 ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at l...

There’s deep fellowship with Jesus in fiery trials that inevitably come following Him in non-conformity and righteousness. How might Jesus be inviting you to be with Him, standing for righteousness in your workplace, school, or relationships today? Daniel 3:14-29 ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more...

Jesus leads people to move into - not away from - society to work and pray for its good. How might Jesus be leading you to benefit your city / society in the years ahead? Jeremiah 29:1-14 ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at lifetree.ca. Instagram: http...

Digesting God’s word and fellowship with Him develops in us the fruit of the very different Spirit our world desperately needs. What part(s) of your current spiritual & intellectual diet might be worth trading in for the alternative superior spiritual food Jesus offers? Daniel 1 & Mark 8:15 ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform l...

Choosing to praise or complain is a choice to open the gates of either heaven or hell. While evil and injustice remain present realities to be opposed in our world, how can we still cultivate a life marked by praise and thanksgiving? ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check o...

When we prioritize the troubles and concerns of the day (and there are many) we lose the missional focus we’ve all been called to as Christ followers. ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at lifetree.ca. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetree.church...

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Matthew 25:40 Jesus says, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sister of mine, you did for me.”  This week we looked at the idea of identifying your “who”.  Who is God calling you to minister to in your current season of life?  No matter what stage of life you are in, there is someone you can be a light to.  Remembering the question, "if Jesus where in our...

More than the church having a mission, God’s mission has a church. Jesus’ first mention of the church states that “the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” This statement describes God's mission as offensively confronting the powers of decay and darkness in this world, and indicates that engagement in a piece of that mission is an essential ingredient to being the “church”. We have been c...

1 Samuel 2 & 3 Honour is commanded all through scripture. There’s a hierarchy included as well, affirming who and what should be honoured. Honour is akin to glory and it’s a powerful form of currency in the kingdom of God.   Anything we honour is determined to be ‘worthy’ of value. But that ‘worthiness’ is not predicated on my view or yours, it’s a valuation which God has ordained. So, whether...

John 13:34-35 Apart from a dynamic expression of community, where people experience a deep sense of belonging, the church is not what Jesus intends for it to be. One of the deepest core longings of all people is to simply be known and loved for who they are. We desire a sense of belonging. Much of the world suffers from an acute sense of loneliness and a seemingly visceral division seems to plague...

Matthew 5:13-16  Jesus compared his followers with “salt and light”. When we think of the simplicity of these two elements, we see how they be at the same time, small in proportion but significant in effect.    At the same way, God calls us to just be there! Only when we understand that the problem is not the presence of darkness but the absence of light, we are able to stop blaming the problems a...

Romans 12:1-2 We often think of singing praises to God when we talk about “worship”.  While singing greatly helps us enter into true worship, it is in itself not worship.  Worship is the surrender of ourselves to Jesus as active Lord of our lives in response to encountering the magnitude of His love and goodness toward us.  There is no true expression of church unless there is a group of people si...

All of us are called to live out are lives going after Jesus with the passion he put on our hearts, there is nothing too small in the kingdom of God. He reminded us that God didn't make us incomplete and that all you need to be a missionary is already within you. You are not too old or too young, your passion is not too small or too big, surrender what you have to Jesus in gratitude and be ready t...

Matthew 16:13-18 Zechariah 4:10 Luke 13:18-21 Often we’ve fall into complicating “church”. We make something simple unnecessarily complex. Like unnecessary ingredients will dilute the flavour of a sauce, unnecessary ingredients in church can diminish the Jesus flavour. Identifying and focusing on the irreducible minimums/essential ingredients that make up church helps refine and strengthen effecti...

The key to the heart of a city is the heart of the Father. His love shapes how we see people, increases love, and cultivates the generosity needed to reach a city. The simple mission of all Jesus followers (regardless of age or gender) is to, like He said he came to do, reveal the Father. How might the Father’s heart be expressed through your life? Ask God to share with you His heart toward people...

1 John 3:16-18 1 John 4:19-21 The love Jesus calls us to follow Him is not compatible with hearts closed off to other people’s pain and problems.  Feelings of hopelessness and insignificance, or simply avoidance of pain, can cause us to live with guarded hearts.  Jesus calls us to live exposed and vulnerable to the needs of others.  To let it affect us.  The world's biggest problem was addressed b...

On this Voices of Lifetree - Amber, Jim, Becky and Josh share what God has put on their heart. ---------------- Lifetree Church is a family all about declaring and displaying Jesus to transform lives, and benefit our city. For more information about us, check out our website at lifetree.ca. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifetree.church/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifetreechurchvicto...

The early Christian faith that turned the Roman world upside down was a faith characterized by an almost absurd joy.  Though there are certainly injustices to decry in the name of Jesus, a gospel of constant decrying is no gospel at all.  We have good news that will bring great joy to the those that hear and receive.    What truth (what promise) have you read / has God whispered to you?  Is the Go...

Hope for The World - Christ in You By the Spirit we get to glimpse and sense the huge scope of God’s heart to restore all that is broken in the world, but, like His church spoke in different specific languages on Pentecost, He also produces specific impulse and inspiration in us to engage with specific pieces of His “making all things new” project.  If all of the church would faithfully respond to...

Phillipians 2:1-18 Join Charlotte and Kelly for a conversation about living a life that is not your own, in obedience and surrender to Jesus, and the joy and growth that can be gained when such a life is lived in community. Our heart for this community is that each person would be living lives that are not their own. What is in front of you to do? What do you need to let go of to be able to pick u...