Blessings to you in this special Season. Promise, Peace, Joy and Love - I pray they'll be in your experience this day and in the coming year.
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Recently I saw an interview of a young family - a mom and a dad and a little girl of four or five years of age, refugees recently escaped, exiles of war-torn Syria living now with us in the GTA.
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What are we saying, what are we doing - what does it mean when someone is baptized?
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What happens when we meet together, and with our Lord, at the feast of Communion?
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God of the galaxies, great and beyond,
God of wee seeds and sparrows so small,
Above and below, between and among: --
All praise to You.
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A few years ago, Jane and I went with another couple to share a short voyage on the tall ship, Kajama, which is docked and sails out and about Toronto Harbour.
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Community of Love: What on Earth?!
St. Paul wrote the following to the Church at Ephesus (Ephesians 3:14-19) -
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The Community of Love, the Church, experiences and expresses God's love, most fully revealed in Jesus of Nazareth.
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This Sermon was preached by Dr. Laurie Barber at Kingsway Baptist Church, September 28, 2014.
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This short podcast is from the introduction to a sermon I preached at Kingsway Baptist Church, Etobicoke, Ontario, in September of 2014.
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ENHANCING WORSHIP
1. Plan well ahead. To do it right, or better, you'll need more preparation time.
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No one is born there. Everyone must choose to go there, the religious and the non-religious.
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Who wrecked our church, our denomination, our plans? Why are we challenging what and how – we believe and do? Why don’t people come and get committed to what we believe and do?
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We know how to ‘do church’ but we have not yet learned, perhaps, how to ‘do mission’ – I mean, mission here at home, here in our own contexts with our own neighbours and realities.
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Holy Week reminds us of the death and resurrection of our Saviour.
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How is this new clan and community - called the Church, to be part of God's answer, in Christ? Here's the response of St. Paul in his letter to the Ephesian Church:
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In the Old Testament, 'Ichabod' was pronounced as meaning that the 'glory' (the 'Shekinah') and the revealed presence of God had departed from the experience of God's People.
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C. S. Lewis once observed that "there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence.
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Pauline ethics is fundamentally ecclesial in character for St. Paul sees the church as inheriting the corporate vocation of God's covenant people, Israel.
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How can denominations and Christian leaders intentionally help local churches in their primary and privileged mission task of being with and working with Christ as He transforms neighbourhood
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