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Living into the Transformed Life pt.3 The Way MOTIVE IS EVERYTHING! "And whenever you fast..." ----------------------- Tithes & Offerings: If you are interested in sending an offering or donating to Urban hope -  Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/CambridgeVineyard   or e-transfer to: accounting@cvcf.ca  ---------------------------------------- Follow us on: Facebook: https://ww...

Living into the Transformed Life – The Way Part 3 “When You Pray…” As Jesus enters into the next topic of his ‘sermon’, there is an assumption he makes that “Of course you pray, doesn’t everyone?” Three times in his topic on prayer he begins the sentence with, “When you pray…” . The way he talks, you would almost think that he sees praying much like breathing. “Of course you breathe, doesn’t every...

 If you could ask God for anything, what would you ask for? Or how about if you could ask God, “Of everything you could give your followers, what would be THE one thing you would give?” Scripture hints at this gift. Jesus promised it, and the Father sent it at Pentecost. That gift is God’s presence within us…the gift of the Holy Spirit.  This Sunday, we celebrate this most wonderful gift!  -------...

Have you ever wondered what it is that moves you to do the things that you do? Jesus has this innate ability to drill down into the deep recesses of our hearts, to find those longings that shape how we see the world, ourselves, and God. It’s those longings that are the motives behind the whys of what we do.  Jesus calls each and every one of us to follow him. The motive isn’t so much to do what he...

If you’ve been following along with us on our journey through Jesus’ sermon on the mount , you may have been wondering or thinking to yourself, “That sounds nice, but it’s not realistic.” . You wouldn’t be faulted for having thought, either. Some of Jesus’ teachings do seem to border on the impossible-to-do’s.  When Jesus tells us to ‘love our enemies’ (you know…those who want to take us out), it...

Living into the Transformed Life  Part 3 - THE WAY "When Love Speaks (pt2)" The old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”, is understood today as nonsensical. We know the power of words and many of us can tell you the damage they can have on one’s life. We now live in a day and age where words are commonly used to wound, and manipulate others. But t...

Living into the Transformed Life  Part 3 - THE WAY The Way Love Acts...Really! Do we truly understand love’s actions? Let us confront the difference between what we think as a culture, and what Jesus actually reveals about justice, prosperity, rights & freedom. Let’s dive in! ------------------------- Tithes & Offerings: If you are interested in sending an offering or donating to Urban hop...

Living into the Transformed Life  Part 3 - THE WAY "When Love Speaks" The old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”, is understood today as nonsensical. We know the power of words and many of us can tell you the damage they can have on one’s life. We now live in a day and age where words are commonly used to wound, and manipulate others. But this is...

For many of us, the times we’re living in can best be described as uncertain and fearful. Along with that comes a loss of control over circumstances, and a feeling of being adrift. When those times hit, we tend to reach for anything that gives us some form of control in our lives. For Peter, that feeling was never more real than it was after Jesus’ execution and resurrection. Life as he had known...

 For the next two Sundays we are hitting pause on our journey through Jesus’ sermon on the mount as we set our hearts towards Easter, remembering Jesus’ death and celebrating his resurrection.  And so we begin with Holy Week and Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. His followers had so many expectations of things they were hoping for, but you have to wonder if deep down they were trying to make sense of t...

 When a serious car accident occurs the police and ambulance services are summoned, and when they arrive, they focus on their respective responsibilities. The police investigate the cause while the paramedics bind up the wounded. In his Sermon, Jesus addresses the painful reality of divorce. To understand what Jesus is saying we must first consider the filter we are using when reading his words. A...

 Jesus does not shy away from the ‘delicate’ subjects, rather, he confronts the prevailing attitudes and interpretations of the law head-on.  Take the subject of sex. He yanks it out of the arena of ‘behaviour’ and goes after the real issue – the heart.  Jesus reminds us that sexual desire and intimacy are from God, and as such, we must view it through the lens of the Royal Law – Love your neighbo...

LIVING INTO THE TRANSFORMED LIFE - Part 3 - THE WAY Ubuntu - I Am Because You Are (all life is sacred) And so we now leave ‘what we know’ and follow Jesus into his core teaching, or REAL LIFE (Sermon on the Mount). At times THE WAY will feel familiar. At other times, it will be jarring. Things are going to seem foreign, but pay attention to your heart. As you continue to move forward, deeper into...

In reading Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, one could easily think, “Just do life the way Jesus does and all will go well.” The problem with adopting that mindset is that we fall into the rut of ‘sin management’, and that’s not the life Jesus has called us into. As Dallas Willard writes in his book, The Spirit of the Disciplines , “So, if we wish to follow Christ – and to walk in the easy yoke with him...

LIVING INTO THE TRANSFORMED LIFE  Part 2 - The preparatory stage   Caution! Scripture Inside…Handle with Care!   One of the fascinating aspects of being a follower of Jesus in the tech age is that we have access to a myriad of ‘Christian resources’ right at our fingertips. Today, we can install every version of the Bible on our smartphones, if we so choose…and have it read to us! Keep in mind that...

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Influence. The capacity to have an effect on someone. It’s interesting how easy it is to downplay ourselves. To think that what we say, how we act, and how we respond to situations doesn’t really have that much of an effect on anyone, or the situation at hand. And yet Jesus thinks differently of those who choose to follow him. The life that Jesus has called us to live and the ‘good news’ he has ca...

“You can’t see the forest for the trees”, so the saying goes. It simply means that when you focus in on a tree, you’re unable to see the forest, of which it is a part of. So often we examine and study the ‘trees’ of the Beatitudes, but forget to step back and marvel at the forest. The Beatitude ‘forest’ has a message for us and for our world…but only if we’ll step back and listen.  Are you listeni...

You have to love how Jesus begins his magnum opus – the sermon on the mount ! If that beginning doesn’t make your heart burst with joy and laughter, then you may be misunderstanding what Jesus is actually saying to his listeners and readers. In order to capture what Jesus is actually saying, you must read it through the eyes of Jesus…the giver of the Kingdom!  (hint, hint) ------------------------...

Many years ago it was common for Christian parents to teach their children a bedtime prayer that began with these words: “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, look upon this little child…”. For a child, it was a beautiful introduction to God’s Son…like who wouldn’t love him? But that was only one side. Another side of Jesus is the God/man who is passionate, resolute, brilliant, and to the point, in how he...

Living into the Transformed Life: Before We Begin, There’s Something You Should Know   Do you remember the Canadian Armed Forces tagline in their commercials – “There’s no life like it!” That statement is both accurate and not accurate. It’s accurate in the sense that there is no other occupation like it, but if you’re looking for the easy life, then you don’t want to choose that one. Living the J...

Proverbs: 19:21 Many are the plans of a man's heart but the Lord's plan prevails Phil and Jen Snell, missionaries in Brazil, will be joining us today to share about their experiences with burn out and learning to understand what they should carry and what they shouldn't.  They will also give us a highlight reel of the last two years and some exciting plans for the future.  The Snell...

Living Into the Transformed Life – A guide to the Jesus Way What does it mean to be a Christian? What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? To be a disciple? Are they all the same, or do they mean different things? Can I be one of those things and not the other? If you are reading this, then you have probably identified with one of those designations, or all of them, at one time or another in yo...

Choices are placed before us everyday of our lives. Some choices are easy to make, others…not so much.  But with each choice that we make, if we’ll look underneath, we’ll find something deeper that has influenced that choice. Sometimes the choices we make determine the road we find ourselves on. Such was the case with Moses’ protégé, Joshua. Joshua was presented with many choices, and what he chos...

Advent week 4 If culture gets to say what love is, then it’s easy to reduce its potency to an act or feeling, or words in a poem and lyrics in a song. All of those could be an expression of love, but do they define it? When you tie together all the statements and declarations of love from Jesus and the New Testament writers, you get a taste of the infinite potency of love – the absolute power of G...