COLOSSIANS REMIXED - RECONCILIATION + RECEPTION

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2013.10.06 - COLOSSIANS REMIXED - Stephen Edwards

RECONCILIATION + RECEPTION

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Colossians 1:21-23

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behaviour. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. 

This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Targum written and read by Sandy Reynolds

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Giving

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2012.10.21 - Kevin Makins- Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters

Giving

Luke 12, Luke 16

This was the one sermon that I desperately didn’t want to preach.

Because seriously… it’s weird to talk about money.

But Jesus was never afraid to talk about money. In fact Jesus knew that where our money is, our heart would be. And so we have to talk about money, because we need to talk about the heart.

So what is giving, and why is it an important part of our liturgy? 

Also, I lost my notes this week… and so that was interesting… I must have REALLY NOT wanted to preach on money.

Music starts 46 minutes in. 

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Prayer

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2012.10.14 - Pastor Abraham - Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters

Prayer

Matthew 21, Ezekiel 22, Acts 12, Acts 16, Mark 11

Something amazing happens when you cross cultures and allow God to speak in a whole new voice.

Pastor Abraham is our brother from the Congo. He prays a lot and says “oooh brother… itisgoooood” - he also laughs and lot and brings a seriously convicting and encouraging word.

His word to us on prayer shook the whole congregation, and filled us with a desire to be people who stand in the gap.

Music starts 54 minutes in.

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Word

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2012.09.30 - Kevin Makins - Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters  

Word

Luke 22  

The word of God is like a double edged sword… and sometimes if you swing a sword around without knowing how to use it, you might end up hurting someone.  

This week we laughed a decent amount, Peter chopped a guys ear off, and we named the narratives we live in.  

Music starts 54 minutes in.

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Community

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2012.09.23 - Dave Witt - Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters

Community

Romans 12, Romans 15, Hebrews 10, Ephesians 2

Dave Witt preaches a brilliant sermon on community, mission, and how we can’t separate the two.

It’s also interesting and fun and insightful and stuff.

Music starts 37 minutes in.

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Song

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2012.09.16 - Kevin Makins - Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters

Song

Revelation 4 and 5, Ephesians 5

When we get together, one of the things we do most is sing.

Let’s be honest… it’s sort of weird! Why do we sing to God? Why does God want us to worship Him? Is He some sort of egotistical maniac?! 

A sermon about why and how we sing, and the many who’s we sing too.

Music starts 37 minutes in.

Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters - Liturgy

liturgy2012.09.09 - Kevin Makins - Liturgy: Why We Gather and Why It Matters

Liturgy

Hebrews 10, Matthew 22, James 2, Matthew 7

Eucharist Church meets Sunday afternoons. Sunday afternoons are PRIME real estate for being lazy and relaxing. But week after week, dozens of people bike, bus, drive and walk to join together in worship… why?

What’s the point of gathering as a church every week? In an age of podcasts and audio lectures and books, aren’t their better ways to learn about God?

Why do we gather? And does it really matter?

Music starts 32 minutes in.

(Additional resources, see James K. A. Smith - Desiring the Kingdom, and also Gideon Strauss’ lectures Wonder, Heartbreak and Hope)

Kevin Makins & Eucharist Church - Setting the Table: Mass for the End of the World

Revelation, 1 Corinthians 15

The final sermon of our 23 week series “Setting the Table” - exploring the narrative of Scripture.

It began in a garden; it ends in a city.

Our journey though the narrative of Scripture has taken us through every human emotion; it has challenged us, comforted us, and rooted us in a story that starts at creation and stretches on into eternity.

What better way to finish our journey than to look ahead to the day when God floods this world with His glory, setting it right again.

But how do you tell the story of Revelation? How do you take a book written in an ancient genre (Apocalyptic) and let it speak as powerfully as it was meant to?

You don’t “preach it” - you perform it.

Which is exactly what we did! Motivated by the dramatic images and story found in Revelation, a group from Eucharist took us on a fully costumed, Johnny Cash inspired, trip through the end of the world as we know it.

Listen through the service online, and anticipate with us the end of this world (as we know it) and the revealing of the world as it was meant to be; pain replaced by joy, death replaced by life, fear replaced by love!

Cast:

Director - Aaron Craig / Costume Design - Catherine Hordyk / Make-up - Ceilidh Milne and Andrea Marini / Four Living Creatures - Aaron Craig, Jeff Wynands, Joel Cumby, Anne Cumby / Twenty-Four Elders - Dan Leythem, Jon Williams, Alex Drumm, Tim Selles, Allison Geleynse, Alana Dykxhoorn, Julia Soderholm / Angel - Paige Louter / Prophetic Voice - Kevin Makins

Sermon starts just after minute 28