Loving The Mystery

One of our Church's global partners is International Justice Mission.  This episode is an interview with Mark Wollenberg who is IJM's National Director for Church Mobilization.  Find out more about IJM's work here.

Bad prayer ideas.  Dealing with the complexities of enemy love.  Seeing a life of singleness as a great life.

Brian and Pete discuss the first sermon of our Come Alive sermon series as well as their plans for Lent.

Learn about our Retreat in Daily Life experience and Bereavement Journey program.

We break down our Church Lab experiment so far and what's coming up next.

Eryn Smit joins me as a special guest to talk about my sermon on Self Control from our wisdom series, "She Wants You To Dance". Sermon - https://youtu.be/SC9oePamOEk

Sermon we reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q4lQx89fsE Episode Guide 00:00 - German Intro 01:27 - Sermon Recap 04:48 - What is Truth? 06:50 - Theme of Pride in Proverbs 17:10 - How to Fill & Guard Your Heart

Episode Outline 00:00 - Theme of Our Poor in Proverbs 12:18 - Theme of Our Tongue in Proverbs 24:52 - Sermon Recap 30:20 - Genesis 2 - Limitation is Part of What it Means to Be Human 32:56 - Bonus Sermon Ending

Latest episode of Loving the Mystery

Sermon we're discussing - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQhr49y7JcS4FpxqbjfmMIQ/videos Episode Outline 00:30 - Brian's Proverbs Hashtags 03:16 - Lady Wisdom & The Order of Creation & Jesus 09:00 - Get Wisdom: Desire, Seeing, Glory & Others 13:32 - Read the Bible Literately 15:34 - What do we do when the order breaks down? 18:03 - Case Study: Theme of Work in the Proverbs

Sermon Link - https://youtu.be/GHWwz-OxMMI Episode Outline 00:45 - Stat With Why 08:14 - Prosperity Teaching 19:34 - Sermon Recap (Luke 14:25-35) 24:53 - How To Give Up Everything 27:37 - Listen to Jesus 29:18 - Cocky Jesus, Never Wrote Anything Down 30:34 - VIM - Vision, Intention, Means 32:23 - Can't we just be ready and willing? 37:25 - Does Jesus call everybody to give up everything? 39:23 - There is grace, but grace doesn't change the goal 42:21 - Is salvation dependent on discipleship?

Sermon we are discussing - https://youtu.be/PhHgyvVq6Qg Episode Outline 01:44 - If You Could Ask Jesus One Question 04:16 - Sermon Recap 06:54 - Jesus as the Samaritan 09:26 - What if My Neighbor Doesn't Want My Love? 13:49 - Risk, Inconvenience and Boundaries When Loving Your Nieghbor 20:29 - How to Become a Neighbor 23:16 - Listener Question: What to do When Your Spouse Has Different Religious Beliefs

Check out the sermon we reference here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvsE2wwafwU Episode Outline 00:53 - Pete's Gum Miracle 5:28 - Luke 13 Bible Study 13:30 - How Long is the Yeast Gonna Take? 17:43 - What Blocks You From Experiencing God's Kingdom? 20:39 - Becoming Yeast 25:30 - What is the Yeast? 26:42 - Does Experiencing God's Kingdom Take Effort? 29:57 - Fix Your Eyes on Jesus 31:40 - Blue Letter Bible

It's essential that Christians take seriously the charge of hypocrisy. Join us as we talk about how to attack this problem at the roots. Episode Outline 00:40 - A Proverb About Trying to Snub a Giant Corporation 4:10 - Why is it so Important to Address Christian Hypocrisy? 7:43 - Sermon Recap - Matt 6 & 23 11:24 - What if we don't feel like being good? 13:27 - Balance between Shining and Showing Off? 17:46 - Why do people call Christians Hypocrites? 20:48 - How can we undo the damage done by hypocritical Christians? 22:42 - The Hypocrite Fails to Achieve Identity 24:35 - Building a Non-Hypocritical Church 26:32 - Our Strategy - The Fruit Bet

Talking about the billboard that went up in our city this week, street preachers and their pamphlets, and what it means to participate in the reconciliation of all things. See the sermon here - https://youtu.be/STjyS6QZgkw Episode Outline 00:31 - The Billboard 15:59 - Sermon Recap 24:55 - A Better Pamphlet to Hand to a Stranger 31:42 - What it takes to Participate in the Reconciliation of All Things 34:52 - Creating Radical Jesus Followers

In this episode we talk about the idea of Becoming more like Jesus and why it is central to our focus as a church. Sermon we reference - https://youtu.be/LFiwJjK6Ii8 Episode Outline 00:00 - "I'm Disappointed" - by John Ortberg 8:08 - You don't know how to play Monopoly 11:49 - What is the purpose of life? 15:35 - Why do people resist becoming like Jesus? 20:46 - Beauty is the best Motivator 24:44 - How to Become Like Jesus 35:13 - Community and Your Spiritual Formation 38:13 - Experience Freedom

In this episode we talk about some of the feedback we've received about the commercial we created as well as what it's going to look like to create a culture of belonging within our church community. Sermon we reference https://discover-life.ca/join-in/ Episode Outline 1:03 - Our Commercial 7:40 - Our Vision of Life Here and Now 11:10 - Why is a Culture of Belonging Important? 22:26 - Parable of the Loving Father (Prodigal Son) 28:10 - God's First Word is Love 38:27 - We should try to find lost things 42:02 - Two Closing Thoughts

In this episode we talk about Derren Brown's new special about Faith Healers and how the discipline of celebration brings us joy and makes us strong. Watch the sermon we reference here - https://youtu.be/5UeVG_MWrEs Book Recommendation - Tish Harrison Warren - Liturgy of the Ordinary - https://www.amazon.ca/Liturgy-Ordinary-Tish-Harrison-Warren/dp/0830846239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533640812&sr=8-1&keywords=the+liturgy+of+the+ordinary Episode Outline 00:42 - Miracles and Faith Healers 8:10 - The Spiritual Disciplines 12:27 - Pete minus Celebration 15:56 - What is the discipline of Celebration? 21:09 - How to get Celebration wrong 27:19 - Why is Celebration so important? 32:30 - How do we practice Celebration?

Jesus seems pretty clear that his followers should expected to be hated. He also says that we should be known for our love. In this episode we try to make sense of these callings. 1:23 - Sermon Recap 8:43 - What does it mean to be Spirit Filled? 13:44 - Don't be afraid of misperception 18:31 - "Anything that is devouring our humanness" 23:23 - How do we know what is worth being hated for?