Pastor David
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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No Contest
How does our human wisdom compare to God’s own wisdom? No contest. In comparison our wisdom is foolishness. That doesn’t stop us from critiquing and criticizing God himself. If ...
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Friends Like These
The church is a community meant to love and comfort each other, particularly in difficult times. Too often we mean well but hurt each other all the same. How should […]
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Once Upon a Time
Are people blessed because they are righteous? Or, are they righteous because they are blessed? Paradoxically, blessing comes through suffering, but that doesn’t always make it ...
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Evangelism and Direction
We can often assume that if people are interested in ‘what we’ve got’ they can come to us to share it. That is one of the reasons we focus on […]
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Evangelism and Discipleship
One classic struggle for the church has been getting people to pursue discipleship. This has grown out of the way we have framed the good news: we have gotten people […]
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