Real Life, Personally Revealed

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(January 29, 2012 – Mike Nichols)

Real Life, Personally Revealed

Real Life, Personally Revealed —that is what our current series is about. The Bible says so much about so many things. Various Bible teachers ‘prove’ just about everything quoting different texts. Sincere people disagree on what the Bible teaches. And then there are the difficult texts: the command for holy war [genocide really] in the Old Testament; sanctioned polygamy; and harsh words on homosexual behaviour. Read more

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Terry LeBlanc

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(January 22, 2012 – Terry LeBlanc)

Today we are pleased to bring to the community the Reverend TERRY LEBLANC. Terry is Mi’kmaq-Acadian. Terry is the director and founding chair of North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies and is completing a PhD (ABD) in Intercultural Studies. Terry speaks to our community about faith, justice, and first nations.

My People International’s mission statement is: To train and equip North Americans and other Indigenous people via the teachings of Jesus and to encourage spiritual life and the appropriate participation within the wider community of indigenous and other people who follow Jesus. See more at see more at www.mypeopleinternational.com/About.html

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Asking God for a Fresh Start

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(January 15, 2012 – Mike Nichols)

Asking God for a Fresh Start

Today we finish our devotional journey through the OT book of Lamentations in our series: Learning to Live in Lament and Hope. I particularly like the title of this series: Learning to Live in Lament and Hope.

Learning suggests that there are both things to unlearn and things to learn that will enable you to enjoy God and live a more redemptive life on this side of heaven. Lament and hope are in my estimation two “faith-life-skills” that when learned and practiced allow you to navigate the dark and hard experiences of life in a way that leads to life, rather than sucks life out of you. As we finish this series I want to add a third “faith-life-skill” to lament and hope and that is Asking God for a Fresh Start.

While I believe that learning to lament and learning to hope, via cold and broken hallelujah’s, are two basic skills for the God-formed life, they are incomplete without a third—and that is asking God for a fresh start. This trinity of lament; hope, and fresh start is in many ways the essence of redemptive living and all gifts of God by his Spirit to help us get on in this world.

 

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Hope: A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

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(January 8, 2012 – Kim Pierrot)

Hope: A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

Scripture Text: Lamentations 3:19-33

Last week, our own Brian Dean introduced the Book of Lamentations to us and taught about the importance of lament, and the way it deepens our relationship with God and others. This week, as we continue in Lamentations, my assigned topic is hope. Next week, Mike teaches on making a fresh start. The problem is, lamenting, hoping and starting again are not stages as distinct from each other as our preaching calendar might suggest. Both the Book of Lamentations and our own lives tell us that our experience of grief is often a messy thing, sometimes even swinging from one extreme to the other. So, this morning as we consider what “hope” looks like in the Book of Lamentations, we see fundamentally, that it is a trust in the goodness of God even when our lives remain in ruins and our hearts remain broken. To paraphrase words from a favourite Leonard Cohen song, hope is less like a “victory march”, and more like a “cold and broken hallelujah”.

(Kim Pierrot)

 

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Consolations & Desolations of 2011

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(January 1, 2012 – Brian Dean)

Consolations & Desolations of 2011

It is our custom at CapChurch on the first Sunday of the year to thank God for our consolations from the past year; to lament our desolations and to commit our lives to God afresh for the year ahead. This year Brian Dean brings us our Consolations & Desolations sermon.

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What are We Waiting For? Do Not Fear

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(December 18, 2011 – Kim Pierrot)

Do Not Fear

SCRIPTURE TEXT: ISAIAH 35:1-10

“Don’t be afraid.” When someone says this to you, does it serve to increase or decrease your anxiety? These are words that God speaks to his people throughout the Bible, and we find them today in Isaiah 35. Read more

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What are We Waiting For?

(December 11, 2011 – Mike Nichols)

Sermon was not recorded this week but transcript is available at the link below. Go to bottom of this introduction for link to the pdf file.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

Text: Isaiah 11:1-10–A Saviour who Returns to Restore

Each year at advent we share something with those who have preceded us in faith in the God of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebbeca—we wait. We wait for God our Saviour to appear. Those who have preceded us in faith waited for Christ to appear. He did. For over two millennia we have celebrated Christ’s advent [arrival in this world] as well as what he accomplished in his death and resurrection. But we still wait. We wait for his next advent [coming to his place as sovereign in a new heaven and new earth]. What are we waiting for? We are waiting for the peaceable kingdom described in Isaiah 11: 1-10 and pictured in the painting you see here by Edward Hicks. Read more

Moses Mwalye – Food for the Hungry, Uganda

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Today we welcome Moses Mwalye to our community. Moses is the leader of Food for the Hungry in the district of Uganda that Cap has visited for the past 8 years. Moses speaks about his family of origin experience and his conversion to Christ; the choices he has made about his own marriage and family; and the story of how he came to be the leader of Food for the Hungry in a district of Uganda—it is truly inspiring to hear of God’s work in his life and with the people and country that he loves. Consider joining the 2012 Cap Uganda team. A meeting is coming up soon where you can indicate your openness to join the team. Read more

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