We’re kicking off the new year with a short string on Picking up and Letting Go. This week, we’re reflecting on letting go in order to make room for things we need to pick up in the new year.

We wrapped up the series by looking how the stories of healing in Mark encourage us to seek and offer grace to those far and near in our lives.

This week we join the disciples in the storm to reflect on our experience of meeting the divine in the moments that rock our world.

This week we look at four parables in Mark 4 and again interpret them in their connectedness. The main point was that truth is being sown in our lives even now, and we need to explore how we hear it, where we make room for mystery of the divine in our lives and how open we are to give ourselves over to the way of things and see the kingdom in the things and life cycles around us.

This week we look at four more stories in Mark, to see how Mark uses a package of confrontations to bring differences to the surface and show us how Jesus steadily works on expanding our imagination of the kingdom of God and what the good news is all about.

This week we looked at Mark 1 and 2 and a sequence of four healing stories. Mark uses the narrative itself as a tool to give us a picture of what the kingdom of God is like when we grasp its communal aspect and see how God is at work to heal everything that separates us.

This week, we begin our new series on the gospel of Mark. In his message on Sunday, Scott invited us to see how the synoptic gospels help us to “see together” without demanding that we all see the same. Scott talked about how Mark frames his gospel as a new beginning, how the term “good news" was heard as a political statement, and how Mark’s use of “time” encourages us also to step into time.

This week we wrap up by talking about our sixth affirmation: “We desire to participate in that renewal by following the way of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, trusting that this good news is even better than we can imagine.”

Let's delve into the transformative power of grace, using the parable of the Prodigal Son as our guide. Join us as we unpack this profound story, exploring themes of unconditional love, redemption, and divine acceptance.

Join us for an enlightening exploration of atonement in Christianity, as we delve into the powerful narrative of Luke 7. This sermon brings to life the profound faith lessons found in a simple dinner with a Pharisee and an unknown woman's act of love. Discover the transformative power of Jesus, not as a fixer of God, but as our path to understanding and perceiving God. Let's together explore our faith in Jesus and see ourselves as God sees us - flawed yet deeply loved.

This week we look at the third affirmation from the journal: “Because of that we have abandoned the idea of an angry, violent God in order to fully embrace the good news brought forward by Jesus.” In the sermon, Bobbi explores what it is that we want to abandon and what it is that we want to embrace and the reasons for those choices.

Last week we talked about the words and the Word and how important it is to keep Jesus at the centre of our imagination. Our question for today though is how that conviction shapes how we read the Bible. Our second affirmation at Commons is this: The scriptures lead us to the realization that Jesus is the only exact representation of the divine and that God has always looked like Jesus even when we didn’t see that clearly. With Jesus being our north star for navigating the Bible, we will look at three examples of reading the Bible through Jesus.