When Saying ‘No’ to the Good Allows ‘Yes’ to the Best

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(March 7, 2010 – Mike Nichols)
One of the most popular visual representations of Jesus in the early years of the Christian movement was the feeding of the multitude. Long before Christians portrayed Christ crucified they showed him breaking bread. Some suggest that this reflects the context of the first Christians as urban poor people for whom bread was a daily concern. Read more

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What Are You Thirsting For?

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(Feb 28, 10 – Kim Pierrot)
There could not be a greater contrast between Nicodemus’ encounter with Jesus last week, and that of the Samaritan woman today. The first takes place in the dark of night, with Jesus and an educated Jewish man discussing the finer points of the Torah. Another takes place at high noon with Jesus asking a female outsider for a drink of water. Read more

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Snakes on the Plain – Looking at Death to Say Yes to Life

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(Feb 21, 10 – Mike Nichols)
There is more than a cheesy title here. One of the most famous passages from the Bible (John 3) explains itself by this mysterious passage from Numbers 21: When the Canaanite king of Arad,… heard that Israel was coming… he attacked … and captured some of them… Israel made this vow to the LORD: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.” Read more

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Come Let Us Worship And Bow Down

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(Feb 7, 10 – Mike Nichols)
During January we explored worship of our awesome God (Isaiah 40). Iain Provan taught us two major concepts when it comes to worship—that we gather to remember God’s goodness through participative reading, confessing, singing, praying, and communion and one of the purposes of gathered worship is to equip you to live your life to the glory of God Monday through Saturday. Read more

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Come Let Us Worship and Bow Down

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(Jan 31, 10 – Mike Nichols)
During January we explored worship of our awesome God (Isaiah 40) as an everyday lifestyle (Romans 12 and Micah 6:6-8) and what it means as a community to gather and remember God’s goodness through participative reading, confessing, singing, praying, and communion. Admittedly that is a lot to take in so today and next week we are “practicing what we preached”. Read more

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Worship in the Early Church and Today

(Jan 17, 10 – Ian Provan)
How did the worship of the early church reflect the teaching of Romans 12:1-2?
We bring our lives as a daily offering of worship to the Servant King. That’s what one of our opening songs said; and that’s what Christian worship is. And as we saw last week, what we do together on a Sunday morning in our Church services is part of that worship, and it is designed to help us in that worship. Read more

Work as Worship – Lin Langley

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(Jan 10, 10 – Mike Nichols & Lin Langley)
Mike Nichols interview with Lin Langley on the topic of work as ministry and worship. This interview is a companion to a sermon delivered by Ian Provan: Worship as a Lifestyle.

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Worship as a Lifestyle (Romans 12)

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(Jan 10, 10 – Iain Provan)
Our goal during the month of January is to explore and expand our authentic worship responses to God when we are gathered. Read more

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