As we begin the season of Lent, Gena Minnix reflects on Jesus’ experiencing of fasting and speaks about how fasting impacts the needs and desires of our true self [Luke 4:1-13]. Reflection: When you consider your current level of intimacy with God and others, what feelings do you feel? If you believed you were fully loved, what would you do […]
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Pause
As we approach the season of Lent, Gideon Tsang speaks about how we need to reconsider our energy and resources during this season of Lent [Luke 5:1-9]. Reflection: What are the things that keep you up at night? Does your spiritual energy go towards busyness, distraction, or restlessness? How might a spiritual pause help you properly redirect your energy and […]
Home
Mark Charbonneau speaks about our longing for home and how our journey here and now is perhaps the home we are searching for [John 14:1-7]. Reflection: When have you experienced homesickness and for what were you longing? What comfort do you find in how Jesus comforted his disciples? How do Jesus’ words “I am the way the truth and the […]
Embodying the Other
Jason Minnix speaks about how our distinctiveness enhances our growth as individuals, and as a community. [1 Corinthians 12:12-20] Reflection Who are the others in my life I’m being invited to embrace? How is God inviting me to lean into this body and participate in a sustainable way?
Pilgrimage
Gideon Tsang speaks about how our experience of faith should reflect a journey of discovery rather than developing and defending ideology and propositional truths. [Matthew 2] Reflection: How are we invited into the process of healing in our own lives and not simply focusing on the macro level of injustice in the world? What is our version or experience of […]
Learning from the Ashish Centre
As we continue the Christmas season, Rachel Lee and Carol Lee share about their experience at the Ashish Centre in Dehli, India and reflect on how faith and community can be strengthened in the context of disability and vulnerability. [Psalm 147] Reflection: How do we perceive weakness and disability in ourselves and others? If everyone has weakness and vulnerability, how […]
Simple Love
On the fourth Sunday of Advent, Jason Minnix speaks about the love that is expressed and received in the story of the Prodigal Son as we reflect on the love of God this season of Advent. [Luke 15:11-32] Reflection Where am I being invited to demonstrate and receive love this season? How can we release our pictures of others and […]