Discipleship

Good News for the Poor: “Not So Fast”

Discipleship to Jesus is costly, it’s extreme and it’s not to be entered into lightly. Are we ready to reorganize our lives around the kingdom? Will we go the distance and face ...

Good News For The Poor: “Disrupted Discipleship”

It is always tempting to try to dictate the terms of our own discipleship. Of course, if we actually did this, what we would have wouldn’t be discipleship. No, true discipleship...

Eye On the Prize

Hold On To Your Pearls

In our Facebook culture, we have learned to publish our opinion on almost every subject—whether we are qualified or not. Jesus calls us to practice a different way, holding back...

Frankie Says Relax

Life is stressful. It seems like we have to work constantly to get ahead and to get what we want. As a result, we live stressed lives that break down our health and robs us of r...

What’s In Your Wallet?

In our culture, it is common to be asked if we are making our money work for us. Jesus flips the question. Are we working for our money? That is, is our money in charge of us? I...

Hungering For God

“Welcome to McDonald’s, can I take your order please?” We live in a fast-food culture that has extended to every part of our lives. We expect what we want, when we want it. This...

Simple Prayer in Complex Times

Prayer seems like such a basic and fundamental part of faith. Yet, most people shy away from it and hardly anyone would be willing to claim that they excel at it. If we are goin...

Uninformed Hands

In light of the fact that God gave his one and only Son for us, it is no surprise that giving is a key expectation God has for us. But, how we carry out this practice has a lot ...

We Will Be Changed

With the arrival of the Wise Men Jesus is revealed as king. And, as Jesus is revealed through the resurrection, we receive the revelation that we too will be changed to be like ...

All About That Base

People in Regina know all about the problems that come with bad foundations. What is true about our houses is also true with our lives. We have to examine what our lives are fou...

Rerouting

It is always tempting to follow the crowd to get to where we are going. However, Jesus reminds us that following the crowd is also a great way to not get to where we want to go....

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

How do we get God to do for us what we wish? That’s often how we frame things to ourselves because we carry an assumption that God is hard, distant, or stingy. But, that’s just ...

Not Everything Goes

“Sin boldly!,” cries Martin Luther. Luther had come face to face with the gospel of God’s grace in Jesus Christ. This transformed his fear over his sin and his standing before G...

Lose Yourself

Eminem poses the question, “Look, If you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?” This is an...

It’s A Hard Knock Life

What do we need to know to follow Jesus? Fortunately, he is upfront and he lays out what being his disciple entails. To begin with it doesn’t look like a Sunday school picnic. I...

We Are…Discipleship Focused

We believe that God is transforming us into the image of his Son. This means that we are intentionally submitting ourselves to be re-formed through daily practices that lead to ...

Become What You Are

Why do some people flourish and some falter? While we can’t put everything onto the home life, it has been shown that people who come from homes where they know they are deeply ...

iBrag

Sometimes when we don’t know ourselves well, we can be blind to things that will commonly trip us up and cause us to repeat the same mistakes over and over.  Lets explore how to...

At the Feet of Jesus

Building on Carol’s sermon the week before, Tiffany draws attention to the way Jesus subverts the cultural expectation by embracing Mary as a disciple which points us to t...