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Isaiah 9:6, Hebrews 2:16-18, John 1:1-3 "For that which He has not assumed He has not healed." —Gregory of Nazianzus (4th Century Church Father).

Jesus revealed as the Wonderful Counselor assumes the whole of our existence in order to heal the whole of our existence. He became human so we would know He had nothing to hide. He lived in a complicated world so He could relate to the complexity of our world. His name is God-with-us so we would know we are prized. Through the Incarnation, we find a space where we are seen, heard, known, and prized as we experience healing and move towards holistic restoration in order to discover the scandalous revelation that we are not orphans but sons and daughters of the Everlasting Father! He is forever tied to us and we are forever tied to him. We can never not be tied to him. This is our inheritance as the beloved offspring of the Maker of all things!​  

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Revelation 1:8, Luke 1:43You know what they say about ASSUMPTIONS... This Sunday we look at how God breathes and breaks the curse of old assumptions. The Holy Spirit moves and reveals several ways we can break out of what we think will never change. This Advent season we explore moving in and out of nostalgia and familiarity and tending to God's presence in our lives. As part of our Advent journey, we will be using Scott Erickson's book, Honest Advent, in which he tells us, "This [Advent season]...is an exploration of finding the God-with-us coming into our midst now....the Birthday Boy hiding out in the mechanics of this life—the one you're presently living." 

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""Have yourself a merry little Christmas," goes the song, evoking the "olden days, happy golden days of yore." Advent is exactly the opposite of all this... Advent refuses to dwell in a past that never was. Advent is about the future. It isn't a season of remembering something that happened a long time ago, it is a season of preparation for the great coming day of the kingdom of God." (F.Rutledge, 338)  Beginning this Sunday (Advent 1), we explore moving in and out of nostalgia and familiarity and tending to God's presence in our lives. As part of our Advent journey, we will be using Scott Erickson's book, Honest Advent, in which he tells us, "This [Advent season]...is an exploration of finding the God-with-us coming into our midst now....the Birthday Boy hiding out in the mechanics of this life—the one you're presently living." 

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When the Hebrew prophet Joel spoke forth these Spirit-inspired words, he was in a patriarchal world where women did not normally prophesy. When Jesus came, he included women in his circle of disciples, a Rabbi’s disciples were to go out and become Rabbis themselves. When the Holy Spirit is poured out and the Charismatic ministry of Christ becomes the Charismatic ministry of the Church, Peter declares that “your daughters will prophesy...even women!” This is radical and disrupts gender-based assumptions we take from our cultures and try to baptize. This Sunday we look at one of the “BUT BUT BUT Paul said...” texts in scripture and will argue from a conservative, high view of the Bible that women should speak the Word of the Lord and be pastors and teachers. You don’t have to agree, we are a big tent, but we all need to understand this approach to the text.  Acts 2:16-21, 1 Timothy 2:8-15, Philippians 4:2,3  

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Join us Sunday at 10 AM, to hear from recent Regent grad Jesse Chui before he heads back home to America. Jesse will be sharing a teaching on Luke 15. This teaching will ONLY be livestreamed with no public recording after the service. Attend in-person or watch LIVE with us! In-person sign-up RSVP is active every Wednesday for the upcoming Sunday. 

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Paul's nuanced way of navigating cultural practices opposed to the Gospel allows it to be heard instead of immediately crushed. He adds practices to the non-Christian household codes of the ancient world which undermine key beliefs about women and class. Paul plants a “virus” at the heart of the patriarchal and class-based rules of the Empire. The “virus” is actually the healthy thing—love as defined in Jesus—to guide all relationships and, instead of limiting, expanding power to all. 

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We have come to the end of chapter 3 in our Colossians Series, and this end starts at home. The revelation of God enters into the fallen structures and broken parts of culture to set our feet to a different rhythm. Some changes are fast, others take time. Sometimes the slow way is the fastest! How we treat one another at home, in the family, and in existing social structures is a blessing and denouncing prophetic dance. We learn some new moves from Paul this Sunday.​ 

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What are you wearing? Clothes communicate a lot of different things. Paul tells us that there are things we take off and other things that we put on. What are you wearing? Jesus gives us a new set of clothes, a new way to engage others around us. We put on clothes as part of our engagement with others. Paul shares a better way, the Jesus-Centred, clothed with Christlikeness way of being in community with others - the beloved way of being a friend, a family member, or co-worker. 

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Join us to hear from Acts 29 Church pastor, Jacob John at Pilgrim Church this Sunday. John grew up in India, spent a season of his adult life in Bahrain in the Middle East, and now resides in Vancouver, Canada. He studied briefly at Regent College and pastored at Immanuel Baptist from 1998 to 2006. Sunday, 10 AM LIVESTREAM right here. 

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COLOSSIANS SERIES, The Lists: Vices, 3:5-11 The Bible is full of lists and yet is clear they don't bring us life. What do we do with these lists? We can ignore them, obsess over them, simplify them, or come to understand they are signposts on a journey towards living a love-centred life. This Sunday we get into Colossians 3 and look at a list of vices.  

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