Reality Church Vancouver Teachings Podcast

Reality Church Vancouver Teachings Podcast episodes:

• 05.27.2024

  Housing in the City - Money

  This week, we continue in our exploration of Housing in the City by looking at the theme of money or economics in the Bible. We learn about God’s economic vision for His people, how their unfaithfulness to this vision led...

  
• 05.26.2024

  Housing in the City - Money

  This week, we continue in our exploration of Housing in the City by looking at the theme of money or economics in the Bible. We learn about God’s economic vision for His people, how their unfaithfulness to this vision led...

  
• 05.19.2024

  Housing in the City - Home

  As we continue in our Housing in the City series, we turn to the topic of home. As we explore the spaces God has called "home" in the story of the Bible, we are invited to consider the implications for...

  
• 05.12.2024

  Housing in the City - Community

  We continue in our Housing in the City series by looking at the theme of community in the Bible. While the city offers hope to solve our problem of community, it almost always, in the Bible and in the modern...

  
• 05.05.2024

  Housing in the City - The City // Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, 10-14

  This week, we turn to the theme of the city in our Housing in the City series. Reading from Jeremiah 29, we see God’s call to the city, the identity we’re invited to in the city and finally the hope...

  
• 04.28.2024

  Housing in the City - The Land

  We continue our series exploring the topic of housing in the city by looking at the Biblical theme of land. By tracing the theme through the Bible in 7 acts, we learn how Jesus fulfills the story of the land...

  
• 04.21.2024

  Housing In the City Intro

  This week we began a new series exploring how we live in the city as followers of Jesus during the current housing crisis. In this introduction, we explore some of the personal contours of the housing story in Canada, and...

  
• 04.14.2024

  Extending the Table // Mark 14:22-26

  As we close our series in the gospel of John and move towards the summer season, we take a last look at Jesus around the table. While in the gospel of John, the table is portrayed as a classroom, in...

  
• 04.07.2024

  The Spirit of Peace // John 20:19-23

  As we end our series in the gospel of John, we turn our eyes to the commissioning of Jesus’ disciples in John 20. Although given 2000 years ago, Jesus’ promise to his disciples of another Advocate who brings peace is...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Resurrection and the Invitation to Believe // John 19:38-20:18

  As we celebrate Easter Sunday, we turn to the Gospel of John's account of the resurrection of Jesus where he emphasizes three things: the evidence that invites us to stoop, the exhortation that invites us to see, and the invitation...

  
• 03.25.2024

  The God of Unity // John 17:20-26

  Jesus ends his longest recorded prayer with a surprise: out of all the things he could have prayed for his disciples of all time, he prays for unity. This week we end our series in the Upper Room with Jesus...

  
• 03.18.2024

  The God Who Prays for His Disciples - Part 2 // John 17:6-19

  As we continue in our study of Jesus' final teaching in the Gospel of John, we look once again at the prayer for his disciples in John 17. Jesus adds to his invitation to the disciples to be sent to...

  
• 03.12.2024

  The God Who Prays for His Disciples - Part 1 // John 17:6-19

  Jesus continues his longest recorded prayer by praying for his disciples and he seems very concerned about their relationship to "the world". We explore what Jesus means by "the world" and the delicate tension of living as a disciple...

  
• 03.04.2024

  The God Who Shows Us His Glory // John 17:1-8

  How does Jesus approach the “hour” of distress that has arrived? Ending his longest teaching, and beginning his longest prayer, Jesus approaches this hour as a priest. Instead of trying to grab more control, or evade discomfort, Jesus offers himself...

  
• 02.25.2024

  The God Who Sends His Spirit // John 15:26-16:15

  Why would Jesus go away? And why would he say it's "better" that he goes away? This week, we explore these questions as we learn what Jesus is trying to accomplish and how the Spirit ministers, specifically in spaces of...

  
• 02.19.2024

  The God Who Is Apocalypse // John 15:18-25

  As we continue in our series on the Upper Room Discourse in John’s Gospel, we come to difficult words from Jesus about conflict and hatred. Looking at Jesus’ words within the language of apocalypse, we see why Jesus uses this...

  
• 02.11.2024

  The God Who Is the Vine // John 15:1-7

  We continue our study of the Last Supper in the Gospel of John where Jesus instructs his disciples and us around the table. This week, we study Jesus words in John 15 , where the God who has made us...

  
• 02.05.2024

  The God Stuff // John 14:15-31

  At the Last Supper, Jesus sits down with his disciples to drill into them the most fundamental and important things he wants to remember. This week, we look at a block of Jesus’ teaching that tells us some very important...

  
• 01.29.2024

  The God who is Three and One // John 14:6-26

  We continue our journey with Jesus and his disciples around the table in the gospel of John. This week, we look at Jesus' amazing words about the relationships within God of Father, Jesus and Spirit, which the church has called...

  
• 01.22.2024

  The Way, The Truth and The Life // John 14:1-6

  This week we look at Jesus' famous claim that he is "the way, the truth and the life". Through understanding the comfort and challenge of this passage in it's original context, we learn how Jesus might comfort and challenge us...

  
• 01.14.2024

  The God Who Invites Questions // John 14:1-6

  As we continue in our series on the Last Supper in the gospel of John, this week we begin to focus on Jesus' iconic statement that he is the way, the truth, and the life. As we notice that Jesus...

  
• 01.07.2024

  The God Who Serves // John 13

  This week we start a new series looking at a unique contribution from John's gospel: the Lord's Supper. We begin by examining Jesus' footwashing in John 13 which challenges us to serve as Jesus did. Recorded January 7, 2024.

  
• 12.26.2023

  Behold - A Christmas Message

  As we gathered for a Christmas Eve service, we focused on the word “behold” which occurs several times in Luke’s Gospel. Merry Christmas! Recorded December 24, 2023.

  
• 12.20.2023

  Judgement or Mercy? // Genesis 3

  This week, we end our fall series in Genesis 2 and 3 with a focus on the character of Yahweh Elohim. How will Yahweh Elohim respond to human failure - with justice or mercy? Recorded December 19, 2023.

  
• 12.11.2023

  The Consequences - Part 2 // Genesis 3:16

  This week, we continue on in our study of Genesis 2 + 3 as we take a final look at the consequences from God’s poem in Genesis 3. By hopping around Genesis 3 and its surrounding narratives, we learn how...

  
• 12.03.2023

  Things Fall Apart // Genesis 3:8-13

  As Advent begins, we continue on in our study of Genesis 2+3 by looking at the conversation between God and the humans who failed the test. As we watch things fall apart between humans and God, humans and each other,...

  
• 11.26.2023

  The Consequences - Part 1 // Genesis 3:16-19

  This week, we continue in our study of Genesis 2 and 3 by focusing on the consequences for the man and woman in God’s poem. We see how God intensifies the natural consequence of following the snake, how that spills...

  
• 11.13.2023

  The Test // Genesis 3:1-7

  This week, we reach the pinnacle of the theme of testing where the humans are faced with the snake at the tree in Genesis 3. As we walk through verses 1-7 together, we learn the nature of testing, how to...

  
• 11.05.2023

  The Snake // Genesis 3:1

  We continue in our series in Genesis 2+3 looking at the theme of the test. This week, we deep dive into the character of the snake, a powerful creature who chooses to become a chaos monster, and receive the challenge...

  
• 10.30.2023

  The Tree of Testing // Genesis 2:8-17

  As we continue in our series on Genesis 2-3, we now move from the description of the humans to the exploring the theme of testing. In this teaching, we look at two ways the tree was a test for the...

  
• 10.22.2023

  What it Means to be Human Part 3 // Genesis 2:18-25

  We continue our study of Genesis 2 and 3 and our exploration of what it means to be human. In this teaching, we explore the identity of humans as partners, with God and one another, and what this means in...

  
• 10.16.2023

  What it Means to Be Human - Part 2 // Genesis 2:4-19

  In this teaching, we build on the idea from Genesis 2:7 that we are dust and divine breath. This week, we focus on our commonality with creation in our shared dust heritage and what it means that God calls us...

  
• 10.09.2023

  What it Means to be Human Part 1 // Genesis 2:7

  This week, we continue our study of Genesis 2-3 by looking at verse 7, which describes the human as dirt and divine breath. While, on one hand, this is an amazingly simple definition, it has huge implications for our identities,...

  
• 09.24.2023

  What Is This? // Genesis 2:4-8

  When exploring the first few chapters of Genesis, we’re confronted with many questions as modern readers. This week, we look at what the authors may have been trying to communicate through this ancient literature and how it invites us into...

  
• 09.04.2023

  Hospitality - Rule of Life Summer 2023 // Luke 19:1-10

  This week we conclude our summer series on the Rule of Life by learning about hospitality. From the story of Zacchaeus, Gareth Jones teaches us about the definitions of hospitality, the stranger and our home to learn to welcome from...

  
• 08.20.2023

  Creating a Rule of Life - Rule of Life Summer 2023 // Ephesians 4:1-24

  Throughout the summer we've been hearing about various spiritual practices, but how do we put it all together? This week, we learn what the vision is for our lives and community, we spend some time discerning what our current rule...

  
• 08.20.2023

  The Critical Journey Stages of Faith - Rule of Life Summer 2023

  Do you feel stuck or have you experienced a loss of faith? Do you need another way of looking at the journey of life and God? This week, Rev. Shel Boese helps us explore the stages of faith on the...

  
• 08.20.2023

  Prayer - Rule of Life Summer 2023 // John 17:1-18

  We continue to learn about spiritual practices that make up our Rule of Life by looking at Jesus longest prayer in John 17:1-18. Through a mix of teaching and reflection, Karli Baldwin invites us to note the blessings and...

  
• 07.31.2023

  Reconciliation - Rule of Life Summer 2023 // 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

  This week, we were invited to consider the spiritual practice of reconciliation through guest speakers, Gordie Lagore and Frances Carlick. Gordie shared how the church community of Vancouver Eastside Vineyard Church learned to partner with God in reconciliation with communities...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Teach Us To Pray - Rule of Life Summer 2023 // Luke 11:1-4

  This week we begin our annual summer Rule of Life series as we teach and explore practices that help us become people that look like Jesus. Teaching from The Lord’s Prayer in the gospel of Luke, Pastor Mitch Claassen encourages...

  
• 07.09.2023

  Extension of the Table for Mission - Part 2 // Luke 10:1-9

  In the final teaching in our series on extending the table, we return to Luke 10 to learn how Jesus sends his disciples. In this message, we learn about the character that we are to have as guests and how...

  
• 07.02.2023

  Extension of the Table for Mission // Luke 10:1-9

  This week, we focus on the third and final table - the half circle of mission in the world - as we continue on in our series on the extension of God’s presence through the table. In this teaching, we...

  
• 06.25.2023

  Learning to Host at the Tables in Our Homes // Luke 9:10-17

  This week, we continue in our series about tables by looking at how we can extend the communion / close table into our homes by taking the role of host. We learn from the story of the feeding of the...

  
• 06.19.2023

  Renewed Stories at the Close Table // Luke 22:14-30

  This week we continue to look at Jesus' words to the disciples at the first Lord's Supper recorded in Luke 22. We see a surprising turn in the conversation and how Jesus can renew and correct our stories around the...

  
• 06.11.2023

  Resonance at the Close Table // Luke 22:14-20

  In this teaching, we begin to look at the close table that Jesus sets for his followers in Luke 22. Here we learn the setting for the table as story, the invitation to find our place with the story, and...

  
• 06.04.2023

  The Table // Acts 2:42-47

  In this week's teaching, we begin to look at one of the surprising practices of the early church: breaking bread together around the table. We also begin to explore how this table fellowship extends from our weekly gatherings to our...

  
• 05.28.2023

  Creating Space for Resonance // Acts 2

  This week, Mitch Claassen walks us through Acts 2 to see and learn how the early church created space for God’s presence. Together we learn how to prepare ourselves internally and externally to meet with God and His people. Recorded...

  
• 05.21.2023

  From Relevance to Resonance // Acts 2:1-4

  This week, we look at where we’ve come from and where we’re going. In this second big shift of our church, we’re moving from relevance to resonance: moving from a purely emotional or cognitive engagement with our faith to an...

  
• 05.14.2023

  Jubilee Partners with the Risen King // Luke 24:36-51

  Luke portrays Jesus as one who announces and enacts Jubilee, so as the resurrected King, we expect Jesus to continue his Jubilee ministry to the world. However, Jesus throws the disciples a curveball when he announces he's leaving. In this...

  
• 05.07.2023

  Jubilee and the Scandal of Suffering // Luke 7:18-23

  In our last week in the Gospel of Luke, we look at Jesus' words to John the Baptist in Luke 7, “blessed is the one who isn’t offended by me”. By looking at the context and the sharing of a...