Welcome! Join us for a conversation with intern Sophie, staffer Jordan and volunteer Nef about Advent and what it means to anticipate the arrival of baby Jesus.

• Do you want to learn more about Advent? Check out our overview on our website.
• We’d love to have you join us through the series “Yakhal: To hope and to wait for” starting this Sunday December 3rd! 
• Looking for a weekly advent devotional check out the Devotional at the back of our City Collective Journal. (Starts on Pg. 100 - so easy to remember) 
• Join us for our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service (not ceremony as Jordan says in the episode) on December 24th, at 10:30 am at H.D. Stafford.

5:31- Week 1 - Hope or Prophecy Candle 
5:54 - Isaiah 9:6 “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…”

7:57 - Week 2 - Peace or Bethlehem Candle
8:28 - Phillipians 4:7 “The peace of Go, which surpasses all understanding…” 
9:09 - John 14:27 “My peace I leave with you…” 

11:45 - Week 3 - Joy or Shepherds Candle 
15:10 - John 15:11 “ I have told you these things so that My joy may be complete.” 

16:14 - Week 4 - Love or Angels Candle 

18:52 - Christmas Day - Christ Candle 

19:20 - Deep Dive into Hope (Yakhal: to hope or wait for) 
20:00 - Reading from “The Trinity Advent Play” by Lloyd A. Arnett
28:49 - City Collective Journal (pg 35) “Hopeful people in the Bible often recognize there’s no evidence things will get better, but choose hope anyway.” (Also from the Bible project word study series) 
31:42 - Exodus 14:19-31 - Parting the Red Sea 
31:53 - Hebrews 11:1 - “Faith is being sure of what you hope for, certain of things unseen.” 
38:09 - Prayer from Henri Nouwen 

A huge shoutout to Neftali Tuyub for joining us for this episode (be sure to check out the Advent devotional in the City Collective journal to read Devon’s written by Nef and others!) 

Week 8 of our "Upside Down Kingdom" series. 
Pastor Jason shares on Matthew 7:24-29. 

Week 6 of our "Upside Down Kingdom" series. 
Stephen (one of our interns) shares on Matthew 7:15-20. 

Week 5 of our Upside Down Kingdom Series.

Join Stephen, Samuel and Pastor Jason as they embark on a conversation recapping our Sermon on the Mount Series.

References and timestamps: 

• 1:28 - Eugene Peterson, from A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, "The life of faith isn't meant for tourists, it's meant for pilgrims." 
• 2:24 - Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."
• 4:11 - Matthew 5:21-26 - Murder (Anger) 
• 7:00 - Matthew 5:27-32 - Adultery 
• 9:07 - Matthew 6:5-15 - Prayer (The Lord's Prayer) 
• 13:44 - Matthew 7:7-12 - Ask, Seek, Knock. 
• 14:44 check out our previous podcast on prayer! 
• 17:39 - Micheal J. Wilkins - "Ask, seek and knock all indicate a holy pursuit of the Father and His will. I would say in that context the prayer isn't answered because it doesn't align with His will that is being pursued." 
• 21:22 - N.T.Wright - "But for most of us, the problem is not that we are too eager to ask for the wrong things. The problem is that we are not eager enough to ask for the right things." 
• 22:20 - Matthew 5:27-32 - Adultery 
• 27:30 - Job 38 - God responds to Job 
• 31:04 - Matthew 7:13-14 - The Narrow and Wide Gate 
• 37:33 - F. Dale Bruner - "Everybody does it will not be a very criterion in Christian ethics." 
• 37:52 - F. Dale Bruner - "There is no need to fool ourselves by saying that Jesus ethic is not difficult. Jesus' sermon on the mount requires red blood and moral investment. It is a tough way... The succession of both secularity and super-spirituality takes the moral fibre and intellectual meaning found in life lived in obedience to Jesus demands." 
• 43:15 - Matthew 7:15-23 - True and False Prophets/Disciples 
• 46:06 - Luke 15: 11-32 - Parable of the Prodigal/Lost Son 
• 47:43 - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 - Love 
• 49:35 - Cyril of Alexandria - "There may be some who, in the beginning believed rightly and assiduously laboured in virtue. They may have even worked miracles and prophesied and cast out demons. And yet later they are found turning aside to evil, to self assertive deception and desire. Of these Jesus remarks that He "never knew them.""
• 53:07 - Matthew 7:24-27 - The Wise and Foolish Builders 
• 57:18 - James 1:22-25 - Be doers of the Word

Thanks for listening!

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