Pastor David
Empowered to Serve
We are protectors of people! The hero is a servant of the people, putting their own life at risk to save the ordinary citizen. At the most basic, we are […]
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Empowered to Deliver
Here we come to save the day! The hero’s life is about rescuing people from bad situations. We have been called to do the same. The people around us are […]
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Empowered to Preach
What’s our super power? We have to know what we are about, what our strengths and limits are. When we come into new situations there is only one power we […]
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Empowered to Respond
A people without fear! When we are called to help there is no situation that can keep us away. This is what we train for, to rush in where our […]
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Empowered to Explain
We are part of a dynamic duo! It’s always important to remember that we are the sidekick not the main hero. Part of our job is to come alongside and […]
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Empowered to Proclaim
With great power comes great responsibility! The church has received the Spirit and his power so that we can be unstoppable witnesses of God’s saving of the world.
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Seeing the Future
Being in exile can be an extremely distressing way to live and hard to keep going—swimming against the stream. In order to keep swimming it is essential to know the […]
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Honestly Serving the Other
It can be very tempting when we realize our place of powerlessness to become afraid. We know that fear causes us to react in a variety of ways such as […]
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Strange, Stranger, Strangest
When we find ourselves as strangers in a strange place we can be called on, and be tempted to, conform to the majority host culture. However, it is by remaining […]
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We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Christians, once upon a time, we in the centre of power for our culture. However, now we have been moved to the margins and our voice has become weak. This […]
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Healing Our Pain
Healing, redemption, and restoration are not simply things we enjoy as individuals. God is all about the community. When God heals us totally that includes our relationships wit...
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Healing the Whole Person
God is not a service provider. As a result he is not interested in only healing a foot, curing cancer, or any other one-off act. God is about restoring all […]
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Things that Prevent Healing
Divine healing isn’t magic. We do not wield Jesus’s name like an incantation, guaranteeing a prescribed result. Healing is a part of our relationship, rooted in the grand story ...
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It Actually is a New World
Jesus has been raised from the dead so everything is changed. The old rules no longer apply—a whole new world has begun.
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Good Friday
Taking time to focus on the cross is absolutely necessary because it is here that we see God’s love for us most clearly.
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Healing is the Work of the Church
If we’ve put divine healing in it’s proper context, then it is clear that divine healing isn’t not just an internal blessing for God’s people. Rather, healing is a gift […]
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Theology of Divine Healing
There are two extremes to avoid in this topic: that God always heals and that God never heals. However, we cannot look at healing in and of itself. The act […]
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Happily Ever After
When things end well it isn’t because we’ve earned with our devotion, anymore than we earned hardship by our wickedness. Blessing is a gift of God which he desires to […]
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Benefit of the Doubt
From our vantage point and limited understanding, it can be very difficult to know just what God is doing. So, it’s important that we don’t jump to a negative conclusion. [&hell...
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Dark Night of the Soul
Some times it can feel as if we have stepped through Alice’s looking glass. As a result up seems to be down and down, up. In that place even God […]
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