Everyday Jesus

Heather Helbig Last night, Jon- Mark led the Zoom group and looked at Luke’s recount of Jesus in the boat in the storm. We used the method of Lectio Divina which aims at hearing what God wants to say to us, speaking through scripture. The passage is read four times, and we look for that […]

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Simple Christianity – Back to Basics

Brad Newell Introduction The beautiful miracle about the Bible is that its message is simple enough for a child to understand and complex enough to keep scholars discussing, debating, and exploring its content for centuries. There is certainly no shortage of information for Christians to sink their teeth into today, with access to the internet

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Let’s Talk About The Will of God

So far in our current series on the will of God, we have learned that there is the general or revealed will of God, which is given to us through scripture, and the mysterious will of God. Often, we can complicate these ideas and so I want to revisit some of the main points we have talked about from scripture. Remember the example of Moses in Exodus 3:11-12? God

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Let’s Talk About Communion Part 2

Taking communion in church doesn’t make you a Christian. It doesn’t save your soul or get you into heaven. God actually warns us about approaching communion without considering what it means and why we’re doing it. We can fool ourselves into thinking, “you know what? At least we’re doing something, and something is always better than nothing.” But if you look in scripture, there are

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Let’s Talk About God’s Presence

In scripture, one of the most striking examples of the presence of God bringing transformation is Jesus’ transfiguration on the mount. Here we see the God’s presence transfigure, or, transform Jesus so that for a moment, the disciples saw a physical manifestation of God’s glory. The word transfiguration comes from the Greek “metamorpho” which means

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