Housing in the City - Series Wrap

In the final week of our Housing in the City series, we share some of the big themes and possible steps forward individually and corporately. Although the series is complete, we invite our community to continue the conversation in prayer and discernment throughout the summer.

Note: John showed the Korean American artist, Do Ho Suh's work around the theme of home. You can see some of his artwork here (https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/do-ho-suh-tracing-time) and here (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/10/do-ho-suh-tracing-time-review-scottish-national-gallery-of-modern-art-modern-one-edinburgh). Recorded June 9, 2024.

Housing in the City - Discernment

This week, we looked at some guidelines for discernment as we consider what God would have us do as individuals and a community. Using the Sermon on the Mount as a guide, we see the importance of having our stories challenged, seeing ourselves as a counter-society within Vancouver, and discerning out of grace as a community. Note: we had several power issues towards the end of the sermon which affected the audio. Recorded June 2, 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 to exile, how Jesus invites us back into this story and how we might be invited to live as a city within a city during this housing crisis. Recorded May 26, 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 the spaces we call home, the households we are a part of and how we might host. Recorded May 19, 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 world, lets us down and contributes to the breakdown of community rather than building a community of shalom. As followers of Jesus living in the city, we are invited to lament and learn how to live in a different type of community. Recorded May 12, 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 of the city. Recorded May 5, 2024.

Housing in the City - The Land

We continue our series exploring the topic of housing in the city by looking at our Biblical theme: the land. By tracing the theme through the Bible in 7 acts, we learn the story of the land, how Jesus fulfills the story of the land, and how Jesus invites his followers to new identities and orientation towards land. Recorded April 28, 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 receive the invitations to listen to and tell our stories, center on the story of Jesus and discern where the Spirit is leading us. Recorded April 21, 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 the gospel of Mark the table is a practice, with the vision of us extending it to our friends, family and neighbours. Recorded April 14, 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 important and timely in our age of anxiety. Recorded April 7, 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 to become an endorsement of the resurrection as the people of God. Recorded March 31, 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 by looking at what unity looks like, how we can pursue it, and some examples of how to be united. Recorded March 24, 2023.

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 the world as he was sent, in vision, fluency, and practice. Recorded March 17, 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". In this teaching, we explore what Jesus means by "the world" and the delicate tension of living as a disciple of Jesus within "the world". Originally recorded March 10, 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 to God and pleads to be glorified. This week we are invited to remember the weight of God’s glory, and to follow Jesus in ASKING for God to show us his glory, so that we might display his glory to the world. Re-recorded March 4, 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 persecution and sacrifice. Recorded February 25, 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 language, whom the conflict is between and what this means for us today as people invited to sit around the table with Jesus. Recorded February 18, 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 clean invites us to abide through the practices of confession and repentance. Originally recorded February 11, 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 basics: what Jesus offers, how we get it, and how we share it with others. Recorded February 4, 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 the Trinity. We explore how this relationship is designed to break our brains, how we can know God through Jesus, and how we are faced with an amazing invitation. This teaching included watching a video by the Bible Project, which can be found here. We apologize as the first few verses of the Scripture reading was cut off. Recorded January 28, 2024.