2012.03.04 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
Winning & Boasting (as strange as that sounds)
1 Corinthians 9, Philippians 2
Sort of a weird chapter this week. Paul starts off by getting all defensive about how pastors should get paid, and goes off on a sort of tangent about vineyards and soldiers and oxen…
And then he flips everything on it’s head and it all makes sense.
A sermon about rights, privileges, freedom, and just how much it costs to really be a Jesus disciple.
2012.02.19 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 8
Can Christians: smoke, vote, drink, get tattoos, use facebook, text, watch R rated movies, swear, be cops, or go to porn conventions for Jesus?
Paul’s response? It all comes back to meat sacrificed to idols.
Music led by Alex Drumm and Justine Kormann - starts 52 minutes in.
2012.02.12 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 7:25-40, Isaiah 53
Paul writes the Corinthians saying “I want you to be free from anxieties” - yes, we desperately need that word.
(Apologies for the poor audio! The heater in the Sanctuary broke down, so we had to meet downstairs and record the sermon on a cell phone. It ended up being pretty great!)
Music led by Joel Cumby - starts 47 minutes in.
2012.02.05 - Peter Giokas - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 7:17-24
Peter Giokas from Little Bethel Community Church is our guest this week as we take part in the TrueCity Pulpit Swap!
He continues our study on 1 Corinthians by looking at Paul’s command that each person should remain as they were when they were called by God.
Music led by Joel Cumby - starts 45 minutes in.
2012.01.29 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
Divorce, Marriage, and The New Dance
1 Corinthians 7:6-16, Matthew 19, Deuteronomy 24
How should Christians view divorce and marriage? There is no better place to start than Paul’s letter to a young church in Corinth.
What did Paul say about divorce? Well, to understand Paul requires understanding Jesus, and understanding Jesus requires understanding two well known Rabbis, but understanding those Rabbis requires understanding Moses and the Torah…
It’s about to get very “meta” in here.
Music led by Joel Cumby - starts 1 hour and 16 minutes in.
2012.01.22 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 6:12-7:6
Here’s the thing: sex is all around us. People talk about it, laugh about it, it’s the overarching theme in movies, books and Top 40 - it’s everywhere. And people are fine to talk about sex… until the conversation gets too serious. And then it gets awkward.
But if sex is such a big part of our lives and our culture, shouldn’t we talk about it seriously? Shouldn’t we hold some conviction? And shouldn’t God have something to say about it?
Well… considering the the length of this sermon, apparently God has quite a lot to say on it. What the Bible says about sex is shocking, radically counter-cultural, and good news for those with ears to hear it.
Also, we sort of used fake Twitter to do Q&A… it was fun.
Music led by Tim Selles and Jeff Wynands - starts 1 hour and 24 minutes in.
2012.01.15 - Greg Reader - Soma: 1 Corinthians
Judging in the Present, Preparing for the Future
1 Corinthians 6, Daniel 7, Matthew 5 &18, Acts 2
Greg Reader is tagged in to tackle 1 Corinthians 6, and continue our “micro-series” on judgment in the church.
“Do you not know that you will judge Angels?” asks the Apostle Paul. Well, no, actually Paul I didn’t know that.
What does it mean that we will judge the world? What does it mean to rule with Christ? And how exactly does that affect our day to day living, right here and right now?
Music led by Joel Cumby and friends - starts 1 hour and 2 minutes in.
2012.01.08 - Leanne Friesen - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 5
Our culture is obsessed with being non-judgemental, and so when we read a text like 1 Corinthians 5, we get a little freaked out. But is “minding your own business” really the best way to exist as a community? Maybe we need to mind each others business just a bit more. In love, and for the good of us all; there is a time for judgment.
That’s counter-cultural.
Music led by Alex Drumm and Justine Kormann - starts 33 minutes in.
2012.01.01 - Dave Witt - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 4
Dave Witt brings the thunder and throws us right back into 1 Corinthians! Summarizing where we have come from, and (bravely) looking forward, Dave brings the Apostle’s word to our community, and reminds us what true Christian faith looks like.
Music led by Joel Cumby - starts 40 minutes in.
2011.12.18 - Wendy Gritter - Advent 2011
Angels
Genesis 28, Ezekiel 1, Hebrews 1
The way you view the birth of Jesus depends a lot on where you’re standing.
For Advent this year we are going to look at the Christmas narrative from multiple perspectives, and ask the question: “how did each group view the incarnation?”
This week we look at the angels. What did the angels think about the incarnation?
Wendy Gritter returns to the Eucharist pulpit to help us become aware of the created connectors all around us, and the ways heaven and earth collide!
Monologue written by Alex Drumm and performed by Paige Louter
Music led by Justine Kormann - starts 53 min in
2011.12.11 - Kevin Makins - Advent 2011
Numbers 28, Leviticus 16, 1 Samuel 15, Amos 5, Hosea 6, Psalm 50, Genesis 22, Hebrews 10, Romans 12
The way you view the birth of Jesus depends a lot on where you’re standing.
For Advent this year we are going to look at the Christmas narrative from multiple perspectives, and ask the question: “how did each group view the incarnation?”
This week we look at the ox. What did the ox… think(?!)… about the incarnation?
The ox probably thought about the sacrificial system; all the stories he had heard about the altar growing up. He probably reflected on how so many of his friends ended up there, and wondered if this little child might change everything.
Apparently, the ox thought about all sorts of things.
Monologue written and performed by Alex Drumm
Music led by Andrew Huang - starts 1:03 in
2011.12.04 - Kevin Makins - Advent 2011
Matthew 2
The way you view the birth of Jesus depends a lot on where you’re standing.
For Advent this year we are going to look at the Christmas narrative from multiple perspectives, and ask the question: “how did each group view the incarnation?”
This week we move on to the Magi, who are in the east when they see a star and come to inquire about where the King of the Jews would be born.
The man they inquire with? Herod… the current King of the Jews.
Understandably, Herod finds this troubling.
Monologue written and performed by Alex Drumm
Music led by Allison Geleynse and Julia Soderholm - starts 48 minutes in
2011.11.27 - Kevin Makins - Advent 2011
Luke 2, Isaiah 9
The way you view the birth of Jesus depends a lot on where you’re standing.
For Advent this year we are going to look at the Christmas narrative from multiple perspectives, and ask the question: “how did each group view the incarnation?”
We begin with the shepherds, and explore the way they received this grace.
Along the way we also talk about failure, success, guilt, singing the wrong words out loud, and when people catch you farting…
Sorry about that last one…
Monologue written and performed by Alex Drumm
Music led by Joel Cumby - starts 54 minutes in
2011.11.20 - Jamie Robertson - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 3:18-23, Ezekiel 37
Jamie Robertson reminds us of our single label; the only things that truly defines us.
And it is beautiful good news.
Music led by Tim Selles and Jeff Wynands - starts 33 minutes in.
2011.11.13 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 3:10-17, Matthew 19, Luke 20, Hebrews 12, 2 Peter 3
An hour and fifteen minutes! That means this sermon is either really boring, or we were talking about something really important.
What is the reason people should follow Jesus? Where is this whole thing heading? What did the prophets, Jesus, and the early church expect God would do?
This week was an endurance run through Jewish expectation, a woman with 7 husbands, shaking things, bees, the foundation on which we stand, and “y'all”.
Oh, and we set some stuff on fire.
Music led by Alex Drumm - starts at 1:05
2011.11.06 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
I fed you with milk, not solid food
1 Corinthians 3:1-9, Philippians 3
There are real challenges that come from intentionally moving with a community in one direction, over the long haul. It is hard work, requires sacrifice, humility, and grace.
It’s hard to stay together when things aren’t awesome or sexy anymore.
But that is exactly why Paul is writing the Corinthians - because a church is truly a church when it commits to working and serving together; even through jealousy and quarrelling and selfishness and bickering and gossip and slander and hurt.
Because even in the midst of chaos, God is able to hold his body together.
But it will require maturity. It will require that we grow up.
2011.10.30 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
And in the last days it shall be
1 Corinthians 2:6-16, Joel 2, Mark 1, Acts 2
Paul has done a lot of “wisdom bashing” in the beginning of his letter, but he doesn’t want to suggest that the message of Jesus has no wisdom of its own - it has wisdom and power, but of a very different kind.
This wisdom is a secret to the powers and rulers of our time, it cannot be understood in terms of wealth or success - it is a secret wisdom, revealed to mankind by the Spirit of God.
And that Spirit has been graciously and generously poured out.
Music led by Joel Cumby and Dan Leythem - starts 32 minutes in.
2011.10.23 - Dave Witt - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5, 2 Corinthians 12:6-10, Joshua 5:13-15
God often will take our world and flip it upside down; and our weakness becomes our strength.
Music led by Andrew Huang - starts 32 minutes in.
2011.10.16 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 1:18-25, Judges 3, Deuteronomy 7, Luke 6
What do Disney movies, the gospel, getting fired from the night shift at Tim Hortons and Occupy Wall Street all have in common?
2011.10.09 - Kevin Makins - Soma: 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 1:10-17
It’s Thanksgiving Sunday, and we went to the park!
While there we looked at the divisions in the Corinthian church and how to stay united by Jesus. What is unity? What is it not? Are there some things worth splitting over? Are there some things we all hold in common?
How can we be “perfectly united in mind and thought?”