Hey friends,
As shared earlier, we are going to have a questioning night this Sunday @ choppers.
So if you have a question that has been on your mind for a while now, please leave it in the comment section below (anonymously or not), and I will be sure to address it on Sunday November 30th.
All questions concerning God, religion, church, theology, Jesus, life are welcome and I hope that as a community we can engage the answers (and possible further questions).
Start questioning…
Here is the video Paul is going to show this Sunday if you want to have a quick preview.
The Use Of Rape As A Weapon In Congo’s Civil War
This week at toh @ choppers, Paul Ward is going to walk us through the book of Revelation and continue this theme of Re-Imagining Hope. Paul is going to lead us through The Judgment 
of
 God
 on
 those 
that Persecute
 Christians
 and The
 Deliverance
 of
 the
 Saints
 from
 the re
current 
sufferings 
and
 the
 new 
heaven 
and
 earth.
Paul is currently a software developer and in his spare time teaches ESL downtown, Tudors kids, and studies theology like no one I know.
Here are Paul’s notes if you want to pre-read.
Future hope in the book of revelation
It’s going to be exciting.
For those of you who wanted the links from my talk last Sunday, here are the bible verses:
1 Tim 4:4-5 – Soul and Body are connected; holistic (see also Genesis)
Heaven Described
Isaiah 65:17-25
Revelation 21:1-5
God Comes to Us
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Revelation 21:10
Collossians 1:15-20
Bodily Resurrection
Jesus – Luke 24 (vs. 13 on); road to Emmaus, appears to the disciples
Consciousness (1 Cor 3:10-15)
1 Corinthians 15:35-58
Romans 8:10-11; Phil 3:20-21
Glimpses of Heaven
John 2:1-11 – Wedding
Deuteronomy 24:17-22 – Gleaning
Luke 15:11-32 – Lost Son
Luke 14:15-24 – Banquet table
Matthew 5:43-48 – Love your enemies
Thoughts to Ponder
Who will be there?
Would you fit in?
How do we prepare for heaven?
- Awareness
- Gratitude
- Luke 23:39-43 – criminal on cross
- Matthew 20:1-16 – Vineyard
And here are the books and links where I sourced my information:
NT Wright – Surprised by Hope
Stanley Grenz – Theology for the community of God
Audio by Rob Bell & Bruxy Cavey
There are a few other sources as well and if you want to read any of them, please go to my library online and let me know which book you want to borrow.
Hey everyone,
Just a quick message to let you know that we are getting together this Thursday November 20th @ 7pm at Christine and Jem’s place to take time to pray for the church and work through some ideas we have for spending 51% of our tithes from the last two months (AKA Project51).
As most of you know we are taking 51% of all of our tithes and giving them away to our community and getting involved with the places we give to as well. This gathering will help us continually take shape on this project.
So come on by with your ideas to 2602 Kitchener st., Vancouver on Thursday.
Here is the link for the podcast I was telling you about today at Choppers. It’s a great/ clever talk about how God reached out to Gentiles in the OT by Rob Bell and connects to what we talked about today in Luke 4, which also connected to the video we watched. Yes, everything is connected, heh.
thanks for the great discussion today, i left inspired.
Oh and if the link doesn’t work (it takes a while for the whole talk to download), just go to the google group site, and download it on to your desktop from the files section. Let me know if you have any other trouble, because I can also email you the file.
After my last post on motion sickness I have had a few friends ask me about these “TED Talks” and I should say they have been quite inspirational in my life. In fact I have a dream of being invited to sit in on these talks live one day, and maybe even give a talk on how a small community of people can transform a city. This one in particular has given me a huge vision for my life and work with toh in Vancouver. I think it’s about time I revisit it. Thanks Nick for bringing this one up again.
We are hopefully going to watch this together on Sunday night and dream about ideas for Vancouver. This too me is heaven on earth… hope.
Hey everyone, aside from enjoying a good meal, and some thoughts on Hope this Sunday, we have a great example of hope coming to visit us.
Bruce is up from OKcity to work with a group called servants, and will be gifting us with his presence Sunday night at Choppers.
As some of you remember, Bruce came up to help us out at toh for 6 months, but upon is re-entry into Canada last September after a wedding (and only 2 months here), he was sadly turned away from the border. Only a few of us had a last visit with him as we drove over to Washington to see him on his way.
We are excited to connect with Bruce again this Sunday.