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A Message from Our Home Office  … by Heber Ticas In our mission to engage with the world, we must remember that we don’t “take” Jesus to places.  Rather, we join Him where He already is.  Just as God was present in Jacob’s ordinary place, Jesus is already at work in our neighborhoods.  Knowing all […]

    The Gospel in Peas A Gospel presentation, based on five words that begin with the letter ‘P” … Purpose, Problem, Provision, Potential and Promise. Purpose … God’s Purpose  … Relationship made in God’s image Our Father Our God, His people live forever Problem … Man’s Problem … Separation Isaiah 59:1-3 Ezekiel 18:4,20 Romans

A Message from Our Home Office     Michelle tells the story of Doubting Thomas, who needed physical proof to believe in Jesus’ resurrection.  When Thomas finally met Jesus, he believed and acknowledged Him as Lord.  Learn how we can relate to Thomas’s doubts and ask Jesus for help, and discover how doubt can be overcome

    Holy Saturday places us in an uneasy but honest space. After observing Good Friday and revisiting Jesus’ crucifixion and death, we naturally begin to anticipate Easter and the celebration of resurrection. Yet Holy Saturday interrupts that movement. It asks us to pause between what has ended and what has not yet begun. This

A Message from Our Home Office …   Program Transcript … +     Good Friday   Some stories break our hearts.  Some stories hold our hearts.  But there are a few stories, like this one, that change our hearts forever.  On Good Friday, we gather at the foot of the cross, where the depth of human suffering

OPENING SONG OPENING PRAYER   OPENING COMMENTS WELCOME and THANKS for joining us. Tomorrow is Good Friday — the day many Christians use to remember the day Jesus Christ suffered and died for us … on our behalf. So … Today is Maundy Thursday — the day we remember and reflect upon what happened, and

PLEASE NOTE:  The article below was copied from the Grace Communion International website (gci.org).  Some words and sections of the text have been highlighted for emphasis.   Incarnational Trinitarian Theology: A Brief Outline We believe that theology should be rooted in the Bible, especially the New Testament.  We see a reliable theology articulated by Irenaeus, Athanasius,

A Message from Our Home Office  Program Transcript . . . +    Some moments change everything.  They lift the veil, revealing what has always been true but unseen.  The mountain of transfiguration was one of those moments.   Jesus led Peter, James, and John up a high mountain.  There, in a flash of divine radiance,

Last week, we looked at an introduction to a discipleship program I’m working on. INTRODUCTION What is the GCJ Discipleship Program? A program being designed to help GCJ realize its vision of being a healthy church. What is a healthy church? A church that is functioning as it should, loving God and others and making

  FORMAT Opening CHORUSES/SONG Father Abraham Had Many Sons Opening PRAYER BIBLE READING SUMMARY OF MAIN POINTS DISCUSSION … by Age Group Younger Children … Learn Theme song (All Things Bright and Beautiful) Older Children … Summary of main points … Q & R ACTIVITIES Colouring True/False Maze Find-A-Word CLOSING SONG All Things Bright and