Pilgrim Church

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  • LENT 1, Deconstruction and Restoration

    Wandering, deconstructive impulses, and the decision to light a match and walk away... Deconstruction is the systematic pulling apart of the belief system you are/were in… a major faith transition.

    During Lent, we will look into Deconstruction and Restoration phases of life and faith. Many Christians “are deeply fearful and traumatized by their own curiosity, because of the structure in their community and theology.” What are we seeking when we feel the impulse to "burn it all to the ground"? Is this journey unique? Where does deconstruction start, continue, or stop? What's next?
    This Sunday at 10 AM, hear two stories of wandering from home while we sketch out questions to wrestle with through the Sundays leading to Easter.

    Genesis 12:1-9, Luke 15:11-31

    44 min
  • The Power of the Tongue ON FIRE - Three Directions of Life-Changing Speech

    Do you want to speak words that heal and mend the world?  The Bible contains consistent teaching about our words and their power.  There are three speech acts, from three directions, that we can engage  with to alter our perceptions and our realities. These ancient words  empower action that heals the world if we can learn again the power of  our words.

    44 min
  • The Power of the Tongue ON FIRE - The Heart and Truth-Telling

    Our words shape the world we live in. From "fake news" and wildly different reports on impeachment, to Communist China's suppression of the truth about the Novel Coronavirus, we live in a world of offence fed by lies and deception.

    This Sunday at 10 AM, we continue in our series with The Heart and Truth-Telling. Truthful speech that flows out of a new heart helps shape a different kind of church and society. We have a light-shining role that makes the world better or worse. Jesus restated this from Jewish law and calls us to a transformed use of our words.

    Matthew 15:10-20 and 5:33-37

    42 min
  • The Power of the Tongue ON FIRE

    Our words can express the love/kindness that the Jesus Creed tells us is central to our faith. Thoughts of love lead us to actions that are caring and kind. This is COUNTER-CULTURAL for all of us! In the culture of the world, this is a sign of weakness, even stupidity to some, BUT it is the weak things that God uses to confound the wise through which His Power is experienced and made known. We often speak and think situations into greater health or wear them down through toxic negativity in how we use our tongues. Our words reveal what our idols are and what/whom we love.


    Sunday, 10 AM

    41 min
  • JESUS, Creed and Gospel 3

     The Right Tools

    There are different tools for different jobs in life. Tools can be literal objects or skills for doing, and all doing has a thought process behind it. To use a tool efficiently, you practice, even master or memorize it. The focus of this is not the tool, but the goal of adjusting or fixing another object or situation. The right tool matters and makes a job easier. Certain phrases and prayers are "tools" that allow us to focus on the 'job' of relationship. If a relationship with Jesus is difficult, perhaps you're using the wrong tool... This Sunday at Pilgrim, we explore simple tools you must use daily to keep Jesus and His story at your centre.

    34 min
  • JESUS, Creed and Gospel 2

    The Story that Summons


    What is the core message we are to share as a church?
    "gospeling declares that Jesus is that rightful Lord, gospeling summons people to turn from their idols to worship and live under that Lord who saves, and gospeling actually puts us in the co-mediating and co-ruling tasks under our Lord Jesus. When we reduce the gospel to only personal salvation, as soterians are tempted to do, we tear the fabric out of the Story of the Bible and we cease even needing the Bible I don't know of any other way to put it." (158, McKnight, TKJG). As a New Year's journey in this "JESUS, Creed & Gospel" Series at Pilgrim, we are learning, among others, from teacher and theologian Scott McKnight.

    Don't miss our second teaching in this series. Sunday, 10 AM

    36 min
  • JESUS, Creed and Gospel

    In January we are on re-centering around Jesus! We're in trouble when we aim for a salvation culture instead of a gospel culture. A church with a gospel culture goes way beyond, "I'm a sinner; Jesus, take my place." Dallas Willard writes, "Gospels of Sin Management" presumes a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind...[and] they foster "vampire Christians,' who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven" (McKnight, TKJG, 81). January 12th, 10 AM

    31 min

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