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Kingdom people live life with radical trust in the promises of Jesus.

Kingdom people are motivated by God's approval. (Shawn Branton - October 1, 2023)

Kingdom people serve and sacrifice for those they struggle to love. (Shawn Branton - September 24, 2023)

Kingdom people hear the words of Jesus and act on them. (Shawn Branton - September 17, 2023)

Generosity is a rhythm that, much like hospitality, helps us to respond to Jesus’ command to love our neighbours. And yet, there is also a wonderful benefit we can experience in practicing generosity in our lives today. By looking at Jesus’ parable of the shrewd manager, we can hear Jesus challenging us to think about generosity as something that extends beyond the here and now of present situatio...

We practice the discipline of fasting because we have been given a taste of God’s kingdom and nothing else will ever satisfy us. Because in God’s kingdom the way to abundance is through abstinence. (Jeff MacLeod - August 27, 2023)

Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have time to follow God with your whole life? That’s because we weren’t made to go at this pace. God invites us to Sabbath, to take time to rest in His presence so that we are able to follow Him every day of the week. Join us as we unpack the “why” and “how” of Sabbath. (Renée Serez - August 20, 2023)

As we continue our series, this week we are looking at hospitality. We will be looking at what Jesus teaches us about hospitality in the parable of the Good Samaritan and how hospitality Jesus’ way may look different then how we often view hospitality. (Derek Klumpenhouwer - August 13, 2023)

Confession is a gift from God that brings freedom into our lives. Jesus died and rose again to forgive those who confess faith in Him. As we confess our sins to God and one another we experience God’s grace and freedom from both the hold of sin and the strain and damage of pretending we are perfect. (Adam Knowles - August 6, 2023)

When we hurt physically, we cry out in pain; when we hurt spiritually, we cry out in lament. To cry is inherently human. To lament is inherently spiritual. (Gareth Goossen - July 30, 2023)

Silence creates space for the fullness of God’s presence and His loving initiative in our lives. Jesus invites us to come to Him in our longing, hunger and desperation and trust that He will meet us there. In silence, we learn to be still, to rest in God’s loving presence, to trust Him and allow His love to touch the deepest parts of us. (Michelle Knowles - July 23, 2023)

In a busy, hurried and chaotic pace of life where burnout and anxiety push us to the edge, Jesus invites us into a new way of living through a rhythm of solitude. Solitude is the practice of purposefully carving out time in our regular life to be alone with God in prayer. This practice is not a goal, but a process. And, over time, it forms us into someone who is more fully able to live into their...

Worship changes us. It leads to obedience, it leads to a greater knowing and loving of God, it leads to encountering God in our daily living and to a powerful fullness of life in the Spirit. Let us come to Jesus with a holy expectancy because we’ve come to understand, just like the people in our passage today from the book of Luke, that He is God and that He has come to His people. (Shawn Branton...

Jesus’ desire is for us to live freely and lightly, to follow His rhythms and practices, walk closely with Him and find rest in His presence. He invites us to train as His apprentices, using the spiritual disciplines He modelled, to find freedom as we learn to know and experience God in the same ways as Jesus. (Jeff MacLeod - July 2, 2023)

John Coffey, WMB missionaries, shares from his experience in the Philippines, about what it means to be sent in humility, with the heart of a servant and learner. Jesus modelled for us that wherever we are sent to serve (in your community, school, workplace, somewhere outside of your comfort zone, or in another culture or country), we are to adopt a heart of a learner, listener and servant. (June...

God sends you and I each and every day to be on mission right here, right now. We are called to make disciples of all nations, starting with our own “nation” around us. If your life has been transformed by the love of Jesus, then isn’t that something you’d want the world to know too? This is an invitation to join the Spirit to love our world by sharing Jesus. (Brad Sherk - July 18, 2023)

We are sent together in mission with the global church, in a posture of koinonia. We have an opportunity to serve and learn together with our brothers and sisters around the world, in mutual and reciprocal partnerships. We will explore what this looks like at WMB Church with our Global Partners. (Michelle Knowles - June 11, 2023)

Joanna and Jonathan Gutierrez, WMB missionaries, share stories from our sister churches in Lisbon, Portugal as they speak about being sent in reconciliation. The Gospel is an invitation to be reconciled with God and receive a new life and purpose. As we are made new in Jesus, we become compelled by His love to go into the world with a life changing message of reconciliation. (June 4, 2023)

The Spirit empowering our lives fills the sail of our souls, moving us beyond the harbour of a self-propelled life, into the sea of a Spirit-filled adventure. Being filled with the Spirit empowers us to know Jesus more deeply and live a life that moves in the direction of God’s will. (Jeff MacLeod - May 28, 2023)

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is the result of submitting our lives to the lordship and influence of Christ, so He can accomplish His work in us and through us every day. This is available to everyone who trusts in Jesus and it is experienced by a daily and ongoing surrender to God. An amazing adventure awaits anyone who would be filled with the Spirit! (Steve Kerr - May 21, 2023) 

Jesus wants us to be fruit-full! People who love and follow Jesus should look like Jesus. That’s our “fruit", obvious and tangible evidence of the life inside us. This fruit isn’t made through hard work but by allowing the Spirit to produce this in our lives. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Shawn Branton and De...

Say NO to Holy Spirit FOMO. Being led by the Spirit is for our good, it is living life to the fullest! There is transformation and goodness when our lives are led by the Spirit and not by us. Being led by the Spirit convicts us and the world of sin and invites us to participate in God’s mission to bring everyone to His throne. (Brad Sherk - May 7, 2023)

Spiritual gifts are wonderful and purposeful empowerments from God given to us through the Spirit, by His grace, for His glory and for the common good of His people. The gifts of the Spirit are not just a list of things that we can do or be, but how we most accurately reflect God to one another and to the world around us. (Shawn Branton - April 30, 2023)

The Holy Spirit is the One who fills us with the Father’s love and connects us with the life of Jesus. The Spirit has been present and working throughout history to bring about the new life, renewal and power of God. When the Holy Spirit fills us, we experience the love of the Father in radical new ways. We become empowered by Jesus, in a world that deeply needs people who live like Jesus. (Jeff M...

Do you have questions or fears about the Holy Spirit, which hold you back from the ways He can change your life? It can help to learn that the Holy Spirit is not another who is different than Christ, He’s another who is the same. Jesus gives us His Spirit, because only by Christ living in us by His Holy Spirit will we be enabled to live in a way that we could never live on our own. (Shawn Branton...