Doing soul care around a fire, feeling our feelings about new COVID restrictions, and getting freedom from identity lies that hold us back from the full life Jesus has for us.

Burning bushes, changing seasons and slowing down to notice both our feelings and the presence of God.

Today we’re talking about canning peaches, mold in the root cellar and how comfort just might be overrated.

Today we’re talking about hand sanitizer, home churches, and picking up our conversation about the way this pandemic is changing the way we think about and do Christian community.

Join us this week as we talk about pirate ships, second surges and how communication impacts our community as we try to follow Jesus' example.

Today we talk about whether masks are against our Christian religion, Hamilton's King George, and encountering God in the liminal spaces of vulnerability and sacrificial love.

Show notes:

King George sings 'You'll be back'

Gospel Coalition writes about wearing masks

We're back after our summer break! Today we're talking about our COVID summer, Saskatchewan’s school re-opening plan, and our highlights from the last three weeks of our sermon series on 1 John, the master class on growing up in love.

Links and resources from Family Hope:

Keeping Calm and Providing Supportive Parenting During the Coronavirus

Learn about anxiety in children

Join us this week as we continue the conversation on spiritual growth, and dive deeper into Daniels sermon this past Sunday.

Holstein hooves, skinny jeans, and passing on a pattern of church engagement to our kids and grandkids. It's a multi-generational conversation with Mark and his mom Marlie, long-time (life-time!) MJAC members. We also open up about what's hard about being vulnerable and risking conflict for deeper relationships with one another.

All the red shoes off screen, singing through a mask, and how this pandemic is changing the way we do church, not just in MJAC but in every church in Moose Jaw. We get to know our new lead pastor Kirk Cowman a little better and enjoy a conversation about his love for tech stuff and the way this season of isolation impacted his family and his staff team.

We process our mixed feelings about the recent decision to wait to reopen the MJAC building until after Thanksgiving. Rachel gives us the scoop about what reopening has been like for some of our church neighbours, including Church of God and Hillcrest, and why some, like the Church in Caronport, have decided not to reopen their buildings yet. We start to imagine what church outside the building, in our homes and yards, could look like, including some of the safety concerns that might come up.

In the last third of our show we discuss the way confession impacts our relationships and Jeremy and Kirk's messages on 1 John. Settle in for a long, wide-ranging conversation, friends!