Pilgrim Church

🔐 Pastor Shel's Final Sunday Q&A! For Shel’s final Sunday at Pilgrim, we will host a Q&A during the teaching time. Questions and answer/conversation is an ancient teaching format. It’s a great time to bring a guest and anything on your mind about Jesus, Church, Christianity and the world to a Sunday gathering!

🔐 Q&A Sunday! - For Pastor Shel’s final two Sundays at Pilgrim, we will host a Q&A during the teaching time. It’s a great time to bring a guest and any question on your mind about Jesus, Church, Christianity and the world!

Home Wrecker and Bird Watcher Matthew 10:24-39 The family is vital and important and much of the Evangelical church has trumpeted “Family values!” Indeed, we agree and are for families woven into the natural order by God. But, the family can become an idol against God as well. Whether conservative, progressive, or a mixture of both, following Jesus may force a demotion of the family—not something...

🔎 Get Close with Shel Boese - We continue teaching through the Ordinary Time, Church Year stories from the ancient biographer of Jesus, Matthew. Jesus instructs his disciples to spread the word about his Kingdom. Jesus tells them (and us by extension) to "Get Close" to people. This message is needed for those who are told by culture or religion to build walls. Not only do we learn somet...

🍔 EVERYONE EATS with Josh Liem Matthew 9:9-26 People loved eating with Jesus. He was criticized and, some would argue,[1] even killed because of who he ate with. The Apostle Paul quotes ancient wisdom literature by saying “bad company corrupts moral character (1 Cor. 15:33),” but the opposite seems to be happening here in Matthew’s Gospel: Jesus’ company motivates mercy. We wrestle through first...

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation: Shift 5, The Centre Holds! . JUNE 4, 2023 . 10:30 AM (family Sunday + communion + potluck following) . FIVE SHIFTS OF TRUE REVIVAL + REFORMATION A reformation is a period of recalibration and course-correction. Any community around for as long as the church will experience inevitable drift over time. Yet the Spirit has worked again and again throughou...

FIVE SHIFTS OF TRUE REVIVAL + REFORMATION A reformation is a period of recalibration and course-correction. Any community around for as long as the church will experience inevitable drift over time. Yet the Spirit has worked again and again throughout history to draw the church back toward its center. Key moments come when particular ideas and practices are rethought and core truths are rediscover...

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation: Shift 4 THE FIREPLACE INSIDE YOU -- ​Acts 1:1-8, Acts 2:1-4, 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 --​ The fire inside you impels you to act. In this day, followers of Jesus need to have an encounter with the spiritual fire of God more than ever. We are called to learn again from the early church the Pentecostal Christianity that empowers us. The fourth element of t...

🍊 Guest Ryan Guerra at Pilgrim Church Join us in welcoming our guest, Ryan Guerra to Pilgrim this Sunday. Ryan is a Christian communicator, who lives in western Canada with his wife and two daughters and pours his time into teaching about the Bible and the way of Jesus wherever he can.

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation: Shift 3.75: A New Relationship With Power Not so with you! - Jesus (Matthew 20:20-28) “The way you think and feel and act about money, sex, and power, puts your heart’s treasure on display. Either God, or something he made. (MSP, J. Piper, 20).” We ask: With everyone clamoring to get their way at the expense of others, what would it look like for the...

🎉 Join us in welcoming to Pilgrim guest Adam Dyer, the new Executive Director of Jesus Collective! A local pastor in the UK, Adam is in Vancouver for the Regional Gatherings of Jesus Collective, and at Pilgrim to give us more perspective on the Jesus-centred Gospel movement.

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation - Shift 3.5: Reframing through Sacrificial Love - Money, Sex, and Power touch all people, everywhere, for all time—every thinker and spiritual path wrestles with them. Richard Foster points out, "The ancient monastic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience were a direct response to the issues of money, sex, and power. Or think of the Puritans, wh...

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation, Shift Three: A New Relationship with Power - Jesus and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit calls us to approach evil in a new way. Evil is overcome through the power of suffering love. The question we must ask is: With everyone clamoring to get their way at the expense of others, what would it look like for the church to model a radically different and...

Easter Sunday, April 9th, as we celebrate the word that death has been defeated! “If you die before you die, then when you die you shall not die”. What does this mean for us today?

🚶 Pilgrim Journey - Easter Weekend 2023 - Holy Week - Good Friday Message with Shel Boese

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation - ​SHIFT TWO: A Bigger Gospel with Josh Liem - Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus the Messiah’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where crowds laid cloaks and branches to welcome him as king. Less than a week later, the crowds crucify this Jesus, choosing to save another instead: Jesus-Barabbas. What kind of Jesus did they want? What kind of Jesus and gospel...

5️⃣ Five Shifts of True Revival + Reformation Shift One and 1/2: On the Road with Jesus A reformation is a period of recalibration and course-correction. Any community around for as long as the church will experience inevitable drift over time. Yet the Spirit has worked again and again throughout history to draw the church back toward its center. Key moments come when particular ideas and practice...

5️⃣ FIVE SHIFTS OF TRUE REVIVAL + REFORMATION Shift One: Jesus Glasses with Shel Boese - Shift One: Jesus Glasses - “God always looks like Jesus, and all scripture is properly read through him.” John 2:22 says that Jesus had to die and be resurrected before his disciples understood him and how he read scripture. We are no longer in “ordinary” territory—the resurrection itself is not “ordinary”. We...

👋 Lent 3 - Second Corinthians Series Finale - Wounded Healers + Testing & Blessing - Paul teaches three important principles for growth and maturity in wrapping up his letter to the Corinthians. These three principles apply to us and our lives. Maintaining a healthy church requires we are applying these energized by love. - Wounded Healers + Testing & Blessing with Shel Boese 2 Corinthian...

🎢 Lent 2 - TRUST (But Verify) - Assume the best, it’s easy to assume false motives. In his work with and for the Corinthians, Paul takes on some bad motives assigned to him. NT Wright tells us that Paul, in 2 Corinthians 12, responds with deep vulnerability to his “true gospel ministry... being misunderstood and attacked, including by those who ought to know better”. How can we learn to assume th...

💣 Lent 1 - SECOND CORINTHIANS SERIES - TRUE REVIVAL: Weakness as Power, Pain as Healing, Struggle as Freedom - with Shel Boese - Our world is often driven by power games through numbers or telling stories. But when we choose to be counter-cultural and embrace our limits, we encounter a power we don't control and experience the potential of real joy, encouragement, and sustainable living. At our l...

🏆 Holy Foolery: The 'One-Upper' with Shel Boese  Do you have a friend (or acquaintance) that always has a better story than the one you just told? They are a one-upper! Religious one-uppers look down on you and others. Their identity and power thrives on one-upping, yet they live a lie. This Sunday, we look at one-uppers being one-upped by an ugly, awkward, and weak man. And we learn where t...

👿 The Devil in Our Midst with Shel Boese 2 Corinthians 11:1-15 - This past week there was a blow up in the USA over a demonic-themed Grammy performance (Sam Smith and Kim Petras' performance of "Unholy" left some calling it a satanic ritual). Should this worry the church? Or perhaps is there a much closer Satanic influence in our midst? In 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks of idol worship. But in 2 Cori...

📡 Hearing God's Gentle Whisper with Darren Lof 1 Kings 19:1-12 Join us in welcoming Darren Lof to Pilgrim Church this Sunday! Darren Lof has roots in the North American Baptist Church. He grew up in Edmonton and later moved to Vancouver. He was part of the Ebenezer Baptist Church family serving in various leadership roles, but left right before the pandemic to plant a new creative church in Steve...

📞 Q&A Sunday with Shel Boese and Josh Liem - Questions and answer/conversation is an ancient teaching format. Several times a year we replace the reformation sermon with a live back-and-forth conversation with our very own Rev Dr. Boese and Pilgrim Church staff or guests. This is a great time to bring what's on your mind about Jesus, Church, Christianity and the world to a Sunday gathering. C...