Pilgrim Church

🔎 Faith and Culture 2: What's to Eat? with Shel Boese It’s impossible not to be located in a culture (or several). When we say “yes” to Jesus, we bring our culture(s) with us to him. How do we know what to honour, or modify with Jesus’ teaching, or turn away from? The Early church wrestled with this and it blew up around food. Food becomes a teaching tool for all things we bring from our cultures...

🔎Integrating Faith and Culture with Guest Andrew Chan Join us as we welcome Pastor Chan who served as Lead Pastor at Pilgrim, and is presently an Associate Pastor at Five Stones Church in New Westminster. Integrating Faith & Culture with Andrew Chan Mark 10:42-45 As followers of Jesus, we struggle to integrate faith and culture. Looking at the Cross-defined greatness, we see how culture and f...

📝 Second Corinthians Series with Shel Boese -- Comparisons and assumptions are dangerous ways to miss God's work and the Spirit happening now in the people around us. This reduces us to consumerist judges. Can we discern quality from only the surface finish or a performance but miss the most important part—players centred on Jesus? There is a reason the judgement of God is coming on the shiny sho...

🌞 Breakfast Church and The Uninvited Dinner Guest In Jesus' life, he's invited to several meals and hosts a few himself. We'll look at one where two people mess up all the cultural norms around food and conversation, giving a glimpse at what a healthy, healing, 'mess-with-our-comfort' meal looks like; and what a healthy church might expect with Jesus as the guest and host. The Uninvited Dinner Gu...

*Due to Technical problem, recording is not complete.* ⏳ Advent 4 - Biblical Manhood with Shel Boese “When male pastors call on us to recover something called “biblical manhood,” I suspect they’re not thinking of the silent, loyal Joseph submitting himself humbly to his wife’s God-given calling” -Michael Frost. On this fourth Sunday of Advent, we read one of the classic accounts of the birth of J...

⏳ Advent 3 - Santa Claus or St. Nicholas? with Shel Boese This time of year images of Santa Claus appear and those in more culturally Christian areas speak of the "war over Christmas". But the war over Christmas really began in the Reformation, 500 some years ago when the church fought through many issues, deciding Christmas needed to go. In our desire for justice, we can go overboard—making the...

⏳ Advent 2 - Wage Peace with Shel Boese NT Wright notes, "There is no insight, no vision of truth, so noble and lofty that it cannot be perverted and made an instrument of human pride. Likewise, there is no small glimmer of light, no faint echo of reality, so small or corrupt that it cannot be taken into the service of the world's creator and rightful Lord...All truth is God's truth." The Peace J...

⏳ Advent 1 - Giving Hope with Shel Boese Giving produces hope in others and it changes the giver. The principle of synergy is woven throughout the Biblical story. God wants co-workers, mini-creators with Him. You have been given the ability to affect new life and bring uniqueness into the world. The church is a creative community working for not only the undoing of harm through healing, but the c...

👑 Christ the King with Josh Liem Do you feel scattered, anxious, or at a loss for how to cope with news about unrest and executions in Iran, or the mental health, housing, and opioid crisis in Vancouver, or paying bills amidst the third recession in three decades? The kings and kingdoms of this world will offer you solutions in exchange for your allegiance, but it is only Christ the Shepherd/Pant...

📅 God's Time - The Gift of a New Calendar How do you mark time in your life? While we are called to stay awake in the present to experience God’s presence, we’re also called to remember in unique ways. Remembering, helps you understand where you are right now. But the calendar you keep shows what is important. Christians are invited not to get our worth in what we produce or consume, but in being...

📆 The Power of Planning with Shel Boese  In our Second Corinthian Series, Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he shares his plans for poverty relief. This touches on themes of careful planning, authority, churches working together, financial accountability, and how structure—while not the main focus—can be important to apply in our own lives and community organizations

🌹 Brad Jersak at Pilgrim Church Many people in deconstruction never had the benefit of experiencing God as real to them. He was an idea or ideology or theology or, at best, an old story feebly held together by scaffolding of apologetics and indoctrination. When life showed up with experiences their construct couldn’t bear, their faith crumbled with it. Those for whom God is real to them have gene...

🌊 Example or Warning?  2 Corinthians 8:1-15 with Shel Boese - Who do you look up to as an example to follow in life? Some live with a spirit of abundance while others do not understand the economy of grace. We are invited to be gifting, giving, gracious, and greater people. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022 10:30 AM (kids + communion)

🎧 HEARING GOD: The Contemplative Path to Hearing—In his new book Analog Christian, Jay Kim compared how society viewed cigarette smoking in the past to how we are blinded by the ways technology is harming us today, with study after study revealing the self-centric digital world decreasing contentment, resilience, and wisdom. (Digital Smoke, Analog Air). We're relearning how to use neglected muscl...

💧 Grief and Moving On with Shel Boese - 2 Corinthians 7:2-16 As we go through life, we wrestle with loss. Grief is the emotion we experience when we are aware of loss, but we cannot grieve what we don’t know we’ve lost. Grief can open up new life before us. In this passage, Titus and Paul teach us that sometimes we are called to grieve.

due to technical issue, the recording is not complete. 👂 New Series! Hearing God: Revelation, Still Speaking - How can we know God? How can we hear God? James KA Smith writes, “But the scandal and mystery and irruption of the Incarnation is the good news that God makes the first move, inviting us into enchantment by meeting us in our disenchantment. The wardrobe is a portal in our disenchanted ho...

🌳 Truth, Reconciliation, and Salvation with Josh Liem Last week, we heard about survival through the residential school system. Where do Christians begin to participate in the healing and reconciliation process? What about immigrants and refugees fleeing their own persecution, only to find themselves somehow complicit in the injustices committed against the Indigenous? Join us this Sunday as we e...

Join us as we welcome Residential School Survivor, Frances Carlick for a conversation on healing and reconciliation. Presented in partnership with Reality Church @realitychurchvancouver , Artisan Church @artisan_church and Kitsilano Christian Community Church Frances Carlick “Ceene” is from the Tahltan and Kaska people from northern BC. She was born in a small village called Lower Post, BC alongsi...

✂ SEPARATION  Sometimes in order to grow you have to separate from someone or something—from an unhealthy relationship or a group that keeps you from your next level in life. How can separation be a good and healthy thing? Paul writes the people of Corinth telling them to “be separate”. This Sunday, we explore the power of separation.

⚡ HATE and Hyperbole with Shel Boese - Luke 14:25-33, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 Today’s world claims to be more advanced, progressive, etc. but hatred is everywhere—even if we avoid the word. Jesus’ way is a path of love so how does he teach to 'hate your family and hate your possessions'? We’re even told to separate from or “cancel” some people. What do we do with these teachings, and how does conte...

🍜 SUMMER SERIES: Storytelling, Lord of the Table - Hospitality has rules in all cultures—when you're invited and when you invite. Often, it's tied to advancing oneself and networking. To Jesus, the networking that matters goes beyond people that first come to mind. The early church was respected but looked down upon because of who it invited to the dinner table. How closed is your table? What if...

💪 Summer Series: Storytelling - Jacob, The Angel, and a Name Change with Shel Boese, Genesis 32:22-32, Job The story of Jacob provides vital information about the kind of relationship God has with the creation—and it’s not what you think. When we begin to understand the implications, it changes how we relate to questions, doubt, and ultimately ourselves.

Isaiah 5:1-7, Psalm 80, John 15:1-17 The parable of the Hedge and Vineyard is a repeating theme in the Bible. Some of us were taught to pray a “hedge of protection” around people, but what is the story behind this kind of prayer? What is the “hedge” and who or what is the “vineyard”? How can we apply this in our thinking and praying today?

📖 Summer Series: Storytelling, Stories & Faith Stories have power. The telling of stories opens our imagination, seeds vision, and can empower us to act. A story can reveal what is wrong and spark ideas for solutions. Our capacity to see a vision of what is not yet through a mind open to the Holy Spirit, ties us to a Jesus-centred vision of our story.

Join us Sunday as we welcome back Rev. Cheung. We have been challenged and encouraged from Lawrence's wisdom that comes from walking with people into the last moments of life and those moments of health crisis that remind us of our mortality and eternity. Lawrence serves as a certified spiritual health practitioner (clinical chaplain) at St. Paul’s Hospital, as well as adjunct teaching staff with...