Ephesians

Praise Hymn! “Amazing Grace”

Faithful Presence: “Five-Fold Gift”

It can be very tempting to divide the church into two categories: clergy and laity. However, this is a false dichotomy that can impede our presence in our neighbourhoods. Rather...

Sloth: Ignoring God

Rest and leisure are good and important things. However, we can slide into spiritual laziness. When we do we do not take time to worship God or attend to our […]

The Purpose of the Church

How is a world that has rejected God supposed to know God? The church is God’s icon. Through the church, the world receives a taste of the kingdom of God. […]

Peace Isn’t Passive

Like it or not we are living through a time where issues of continued racism in Canada and the U.S. have come to the fore. The church cannot turn a […]

Arming for the Struggle

Because the victory has been won we don’t need to fret about the battle. On the other hand our enemy has not stopped fighting and we are still vulnerable. So […]

Know Your Enemy

Paul assures us that “our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritu...

Pull a U-Turn

Becoming a Christian does not happen by accident. A person can’t become a Christian and not know it and a person can’t keep going in the same direction and arrive […]

Drilling Down

We are in the fight of our lives, but we do not do battle alone. God has power which he gives to us — not to beat the enemy into […]

Marriage Crashers

The modern day fairy tale has taught us that, “They lived happily ever after.” In many ways this has left us unprepared for when difficult times enter a marriage. Pastor […]

What’s the Plan?

Having cleared the ground, noting that marriage is not the end all and be all for everyone and that divorce can be handled gracefully, we now want to put forward […]

Women’s Work

We have recognized that in Christ Jesus there is no distinction between male and female, that God has called us all to be his ministers. However, we have to also […]

As Christ Loves the Church

Amy walked us through a difficult passage of scripture, using a facilitated teaching method, to show how rather than making women less than men, Paul was actually freeing women ...

Rise Up!

Jesus has been crushed under the wheel of the world, but this doesn’t mean he’s lost. Rather, it mean’s he’s changed the game and because of that we have...

Feet First

Buckle Up, It’s Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride

Spiritual Warfare, Not Against Flesh and Blood