"The Psalm 23 Test Audience" on Psalm 23 - Sermon by Joe Ellis — July 18, 2021
The last number of weeks we have been reflecting on key ingredients that characterize the community of God’s people. We’ve looked at the church as the witnessing community, the reconciling community, the Christ centred community, the encouraging community. Today we will explore the church as the restful community. This one is really quite important in the Christian life — but one that can quite easily be neglected, forgotten, or even despised. Yet rest is vital and has be
“Gold in the Cracks” Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 by Michelle Ellis - July 11, 2021
This summer we’ve been exploring together what it means to be a community in Christ. We’ve touched together on how communities in Christ are peculiar, how we are called to be a hopeful community, and last week Joe reflected on how we’re called to be a a community that works towards reconciliation. Today I’d like to look together at what it means to be an encouraging community. Sometimes we can think of encouragement as saying things to each other like, “Awesome job!” “Way t
“Think But This” Sermon on 2 Corinthians 5:11 - 6:2 by Joe Ellis — July 4, 2021
The passage we heard this morning is about how in Christ, God is reconciling the world to himself. Paul locates himself within this mission — he has a ministry of reconciliation, to bring all humans into reconciled relationship with God — and by extension into reconciled relationship with our neighbours and with creation. This is because, as we’ll see in this passage, God’s reconciliation is all encompassing — reconciling relationships between neighbours, creation and with
