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A Cruciform Life: Behold… the King!

We continue our series, "A Cruciform Life", on this Palm Sunday and work towards better understanding how we can navigate this complex, interconnected world while keeping deep within us the knowledge that Jesus is King. In preparation for the message, let us meditate on Psalm 118:26, which says, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Luke 19:30-34 //"Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. I f anyone asks you, W' hy are you untying it?' say, "The Lord needs it.* Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?" They replied, "The Lord needs it."

A Cruciform Life: The Cross & the Marketplace

Continuing on our sermon series, "A Cruciform Life", we work towards looking at what a Cross-centered life looks in our work lives. To prepare our hearts for the message from the service, we can meditate on Ephesians 6:11, which says, "Clothe yourselves with the full armour of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Colossians 1:15 //He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him—all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers—all things were created through him and for him. He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him. He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in the Son and through him to reconcile all things to himself by making peace through the blood of his cross—through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven. 

A Cruciform Life: Making Sense of Old Testament Violence

We move forward in the series, "A Cruciform Life", by looking to reconcile the image of Christ on the Cross and the acts of violence in the Old Testament.⁠ As we continue to meditate on these topics, let us reflect on Luke 24:27, which says, "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself."
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================This Week's Scripture:// Luke 4:17-19 //...and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,    because he has anointed me    to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners    and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free,    to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

A Cruciform Life: A Beautiful Gospel

We continue in our series, "A Cruciform Life", by keeping our focus on the Cross and working to learn of the beautiful gospel that Christ left with us.⁠ As we ready our hearts and set our hearts to follow this Sunday, let us reflect on John 1:1, which says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."⁠
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================This Week's Scripture:// John 1:14–18 //And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’”) From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

A Cruciform Life: Is God a Monster?

As we looking deeper into living "A Cruciform Life", we will investigate those times when God may be misunderstood as an angry—even monstrous—God who commands eradication of peoples amongst other things. Yet, in this service, we will learn that perhaps things are not as they seem, especially as we take a moment to reflect on 1 John 4:8, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."⁠ Let us work to better grasp these questions and begin to formulate our own responses in ways that mature us still further in our walk with our Lord.
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================This Week's Scripture:// Hosea 6:6 //For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

A Cruciform Life: The Crucified God

As we being our journey through Lent and reflect on the work of our Lord for us, we also began a new series called "A Cruciform Life". This week, we will look into the one understanding that anchors not just the series but the way we should live our lives: that God was crucified for our sakes. As we prepare for this week's service, let us reflect on 1 Corinthians 2:2, which says, "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
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================This Week's Scripture:// 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 //All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who knew no sin to be sinb on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

A Bigger Table: Celebration

In our last service of this series, we look into the topic of celebration and how we can keep it in our hearts as we move through life. As we delve into this topic, let us continue to celebrate as we will soon meet together again for church, by reflecting in Philippians 4:4, which says, "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"
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================This Week's Scripture:// Deuteronomy 14:22-29 //Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

A Bigger Table: Growing Into Maturity

In our penultimate service that focuses on growing into maturity as Christians, we will investigate what that "maturity" means and looks like. Indeed, a big part of that growth requires an awareness on how we may be able to contribute our gifts to the church, as is reflected in Ephesians 4:16, which says, "From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body builds itself up in love."
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================This Week's Scripture:// 1 Corinthians 2:12-3:4 //Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready, 3 for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people? For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?

A Bigger Table: When Religion Gets in the Way

Moving into the month of February, we discuss this week about how, sometimes, it is religion itself that gets in the way of faith. As we look forward to this week's service then, let us consider the words in Romans 13:10, which says, "Love does no harm to a neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the law."
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================This Week's Scripture:// John 3:1–3 //Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.

A Bigger Table: Authentic Community

As we move into the first full week of this Lunar New Year, we look into a topic that is close to the heart of the church and our culture: authentic community. As we prepare for this week's service, let us meditate on 1 John 3:17, "But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?"
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================This Week's Scripture:// Hebrews 10:19-25 //Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy. And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.