Episodes
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Message from Grant Myles-Era on June 1, 2025
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Message from Stephen Menzies on May 25, 2025
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Missing episodes?
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Message from Melody Anderson on May 18, 2025
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Message from Grant Myles-Era on May 11, 2025
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Message from Grant Myles-Era on May 4, 2025
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Message from Grant Myles-Era on April 27, 2025
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Message from Grant Myles-Era on April 20, 2025
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We join the crowd on a dusty road just outside Jerusalem. There’s a strange buzz in the air—hope, tension, confusion, joy, and fear. Palm branches are raised high to welcome in a King. But, this week we will not see the coronation of a king; we will see the beginning of a confrontation.
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Message from Melody Anderson on April 6, 2025
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“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." – John 15:5
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Sadly, we live in a world where promise-making is often followed by promise-breaking. Cheap promises are simply one more tool in the toolbox that people use to get their way, gain support or otherwise exercise power. From politics to business, to friends and family, and even, tragically, in the church, promises made and promises broken are all too common.
During this season of Lent, on our journey towards Easter Sunday, we will focus on the only One whose promises can be depended upon, regardless of the cost to the promise-maker. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." – John 14:27 -
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[a]; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
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After 8 weeks of investigation into the world of the Bible we ask a final clarifying question:
"What might our conclusions be?" Or to put it more bluntly, "So What?" What does it mean for God's people to embrace and to live into our role as recipients of a written word, which was made flesh in Jesus, full of grace and truth? -
"Whose is the Bible?"
This question invites a range of responses. It could point to issues of copyright in different translations or to the various religious traditions that claim the Bible as their own, asserting their right to interpret its meaning. Perhaps the simplest answer is found on the cover of many editions: "God's Word." Yet, beyond questions of ownership or control, this question also touches on something deeper. The Bible is not merely possessed—it shapes, forms, and transforms those who engage with it. In this sense, the question of "whose" the Bible is may be less about who owns it and more about who is being shaped by it. -
This week we will be considering three questions:
Which books have been considered Scripture?
Which translation is most helpful?
Which scriptures do I prioritize?
"Which?" can be a difficult question to use when interrogating the Bible. While sometimes we hear quick and easy answers to these questions, we will be exploring the way church history and the Holy Spirit have played roles in the bible which we have today. -
This week we will consider two questions:
How did the Bible arise?
How might we best approach the Bible?
Despite appearing to be two separate questions, they are intimately connected within the reality of the God who seeks to meet us, challenge us, comfort us, teach and renew us. -
The question of “Where does the Bible connect in our lives?” can be understood in two ways—where we think it applies versus where it actually meets us. We often expect Scripture to connect in obvious places: church, Bible studies, or times of worship. But the power of God’s Word is that it reaches us in the unexpected moments—when we’re struggling in a relationship, facing uncertainty at work, or wrestling with doubt in silence.
Just as Jesus met people where they were—whether at a well, a stormy sea, or in the middle of their sin—Scripture meets us not just in sacred spaces but in our everyday lives, offering wisdom, correction, and comfort exactly where we need it most. But do we see the connection? -
Last year we took a trip through the book of Ecclesiastes with our ever honest, sometimes cryptic guide, "The Teacher." Chapter 3 began with the words, "There is a time for everything..." This week our investigation of the Christian Scriptures leads us to ask the question, "When?"
In earthly terms, the seconds, minutes, hours and days of our lives are a finite resource of unknown duration. How might scripture, and the message of Kingdom and Gospel that it brings us, inform and redeem our concept of time? Don't be late! -
Over the past two weeks we have considered the questions, "What is the Bible?" and "Why Does God Give Us a Written Word?" This week we ask, like that great theologian *Pete Townsend, "Who Are You? Who, who, who, who?" Character development is a central feature in books. Characters carry the story, draw us into the story and perhaps even cause us to see ourselves reflected in the lives portrayed on the page. Who are/is the main character in the Bible, and what might that mean for our own stories as we engage with these texts? "Lord, open our eyes, that we might see wonderful things in your word."
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