Pilgrimage

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Scriptures:

• Sermon Summary

  Summary:

  In the third sermon of our series Sacred Practice, Bobbi reflects on pilgrimage as a sacred practice that can take many forms. Everything from ancient routes like the Camino to quiet, everyday moments of unexpected grace. Bobbi invites us to consider how intentional movement toward the sacred can deepen our faith and open us to the unexpected. Bobbi reminds us that pilgrimage isn’t always about distance traveled, but about the posture we bring to the journey. Ultimately, pilgrimage is an invitation to stay present on the path—trusting that, in time, it will lead us home.

• Discussion Guide

  Community is shaped by the conversations we share. These questions and reflections are a tool to help you meaningfully engage with the themes of this week's teaching.

  Summer Discussion Guide 2025

  If your group is meeting this summer and wants to talk about the sermons, here are a few questions that you could use to engage with our teaching.

  • What specific part of the message resonated with you the most? Why do you think that particular part, or idea, or story caught your attention?

  • Did the sermon speak into a particular struggle or question in your life or your faith journey right now?

  • What did the message challenge or encourage you personally? And what do you think the application could be for our church community? Was there anything that could strengthen or stretch us as a church?

  How did the exposition of the scriptures used in the sermon provide you with a new perspective of deeper understanding?

  It is good to remember that the conversation experience in the group is shaped by the personal stories of those who participate in it and how willing the people are to be open and vulnerable in the group.
  
  So if you’re leading the discussion, feel free to model and encourage person-centred and story-centred sharing by reflecting on how some parts of the sermon resonate with you personally.

  Additionally, what contributes to a more authentic group discussion is when people can share not about the abstract and theoretical applications, but one or two practical things they are taking away from either the sermon or the discussion.

  So, you can end your time together with this question:

  • What is one thing you are taking away from either the sermon or the discussion we’ve just had?

• Service Songs & Prayers

  CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 31

  MUSIC Curated by Kevin Borst
  Hillsong Worship - See The Light
  Brooke Ligertwood - Ancient Gates
  Mission House - I Don't Have Much
  Hillsong Worship - O Praise The Name
  
  THE LORD’S PRAYER
  Introduction by Rachel Tita

  When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, he reminded them that their prayers didn't need to be anything other than simple and honest to be heard by God.

  Even in moments when we are overwhelmed or weary or don't know what to say, we can join with centuries of Jesus followers who have gone before us, and pray together.

  So, I invite you to join me in the Lord’s Prayer.

  Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name.

  Thy Kingdom come,Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.

  Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses,

  As we forgive those who trespass against us.

  And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

  For thine is the kingdom, The power and the glory,

  For ever and ever.

  Amen.
  
  SERIES BUMPER
  Sacred Practice