Dennis Gulley

What is the significance of Jesus' baptism? As we look at why Jesus was baptized, we see that He models for us a relationship of obedience and love towards the Father!

Looking at the story of the adolescent Jesus who longed to be in His Father's presence, we can learn a lot about our own need to be in God's presence!

What does it mean for us to follow after Jesus' example in discipleship, faith, and life? While Jesus came to be the sacrifice for our sins and lead us to life everlasting, He also came to model life for us as His disciples. Today we are looking at how Jesus came to model a lifestyle of love that we can model to the world around us!

As Pastor Dustin prepares for Sabbatical we are invited to join him in reflecting on the places God is leading us in the coming year!

We love because he first loved us. God is love, and we can only understand love in relationship with him!

As we walk through this Advent season we know that our Savior has brought us Peace.

A disciple is one who lives in hope!

As disciples one of the hardest lessons for us to learn is to wait on God. God's plans are not our plans, and his ways are higher than our ways, and we must learn to trust and to wait as he leads us.

The story of Israel is a story of struggle and failure, even as God did amazing things all around and through them. As we walk with God we will struggle and fail, but God is gracious and wants so much more for us!

A disciple is called by God into his mission and purpose in the world, working to bring his hope and love to others!

God has called his people to speak, but it is not our words that turn hearts, but the power of the cross that we point to!

God is our shield and our protector, he cares for us and watches over us, and will deliver us! But as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego declared, sometimes that deliverance doesn't look the way we want...so what do we do when God's protection doesn't feel very protective?

In ancient days people saw their gods as local and limited, but the God of Israel revealed to them that he was always with them, wherever they were, and whatever they were going through. A disciple is one who knows that God is always with us!

Walking with God fills our lives with all kinds of wonderful blessings and gifts, and he calls us to be a part of the work he is doing in amazing and important ways. But a disciple understands that while God calls us and cares for us, we are not the point, he is!

A disciple knows who it is that we are worshipping, and responds to the lavish promises and provision of God with lavish generosity and freedom!

God's mind and ways are far beyond what we can know or understand, but at the same time he is not unknowable. As disciples he means for us to know him and walk with him, and he has given us his law and his word that we can know his heart and his mind and how he means us to live!

A disciple is one who knows the provision of God, but the provision of God is not everything we want all the time so that we never have to rely on him again. God provides enough that we can walk with him one day at a time.

Following God can be scary and even dangerous, but a disciple is a person who knows the power of God, and knows that he can protect and provide no matter what he calls us into.

This week we step into our new theme for the year, "The Mind of a Disciple". We're going to exlore what discipleship looks like, what it means, and what God means to do in us. Join us as we begin our journey together!

The Armour of God doesn't do us any good unless we put it on!

The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. The Word embodied in Jesus and given to us in the scriptures. It is truth and life, and speaks hope into the world!

God has given us tools to protect us and prepare us, and the faith that he provides is a shield that keeps the attacks of the enemy at bay!

If we believe the gospel, we should be filled with a hunger to share it!

God provides us his armour not so that we can hide, but so that we can carry his gospel of hope and life out into the world to the people who need to hear it!

God provides us the righteousness of his own son as our protection. It's not something we can earn or gain for ourselves, but a wonderful gift from him!

Paul tells us that the first piece of the armour that God has given to us is the Belt of Truth. But what is that truth? How do we define it? And what does it mean for us as we seek to walk with God?

God has given us the tools, but we have to put them on and use them. Are we building our lives in a way that honors God?

The Armour of God is a powerful tool given to protect and equip us for the good work that God has prepared for us!

God has spoken to us, given us his word, that we can know relationship with our creator. Is there any greater gift we can have?

In light of the incredible things that Peter reveals to us, he then asks us, how then should we live? If Jesus really is who he says he is, and if his promises are really true, then that has to change everything!

As we have our Annual General Meeting this week, we hear the words of Peter calling forward to us and the things he sees facing the church.

We must know the word so that we can discern good and faithful teaching. We must stand firmly on the truth of Jesus!

The Apostle Peter knew his life was coming to an end, and he wrote a letter to the church telling us these final things. Let us hear and obey the words that the Spirit has given us through him.

When God brings his word to life within us, we are transformed - our appetites, our behaviours, our purpose are all made new as we live in submission to his will and his ways!

The Word Alive in Us should lead us to surrender and trust, knowing our heavenly Father is in control!

When the Word is alive in each of us, we are drawn together to become the body of Christ, his church, walking and living in his power together!

When God's word lives in us his holiness lives in us!

This week we're beginning our new series exploring what it means for the Word to be alive in us!

Jesus taught us all about life and walking with God, and at the end he taught us what to do with all of that - to take his teaching, and teach others. Go make disciples!

Jesus is alive! Join us as we celebrate the resurrection and explore what it means that Jesus is raised to life again for us!

Jesus has taught us how to live, how to worship, how to follow, but he also told us about the end. Our lives and this world will not go on forever - God will bring a conclusion to all things according to his will and for his glory. How does that change the way we should live?

Jesus is calling us to follow him, but we have to set down everything we are and everything we have if we do. The Rich Young Ruler couldn't do it. Can we?

The call of Jesus isn't to deny the world, it's to deny ourselves. We don't want to follow the patterns of the world, but Jesus is inviting us to see that the problem isn't all around us, it's in us too.

Jesus taught us what our mission looks like, what he has called us to do, and he is inviting us to follow him as he brings his Kingdom here to the world!

Jesus told us how to live, how to worship, and he finished his sermon on the mount with how to follow. He has grand promises and serious warnings for us on this journey, but he promises he will walk with us all the way through it!

So much of our efforts to worship wind up focused on ourselves and what other people think, but Jesus is calling us to look up and see our Father!

Jesus calls us to do something harder than anything else - love our enemies. The people who are hurting us, the people who make our lives miserable, the people who hurt the people we love. How can we do that? We need Jesus!

Jesus has taught us how to live, and what life in his kingdom is supposed to look like. We are called to something far deeper than just acting nice!

If we are living in the kingdom, that kingdom should be shining through us and bringing light and salt to the people around us!

What did Jesus tell us about his kingdom? What did he tell us about life and worship and relationship? Join us as we begin our study of the things Jesus said to us, and what he means for us to do about it!