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Sunday, 04 July 2010 08:45 | 
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!!! WARNING !!! Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:03 | Author: Administrator |
Please be aware that we are not meeting at the Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre this week. We are meeting at Jackie's house for this Sunday. June 27th is our last Sunday before we head to the Core Area Park for 'Sundays of Summer'. Starting July 4 we will be at the Core Area Park for July and August for days that are sunny, and for days that are not sunny, we'll meet at Jackie's house which is just a block away. Please come and join us for some singing or some prayer or some street ministry or what ever happens.
Yesterday Friday, 07 May 2010 08:45 | Author: Pastor Thom |
Yesterday, I had the most intense day I've had in a very long period of time. You know how they say bad things come in threes? Well, not yesterday, they came in fours. I had two major life affecting meetings which produced very disappointing results, and I became aware of two other events or circumstances that dragged up a lot of dirt. All four of the experiences hammered at my numerous and various insecurities. At points in my day I was so enraged I actually threw things. I wept openly and bitterly from the intensity of the humiliation and disappointment. Generally, I like to control my emotions - not to the point of being emotionless, but to the point of being polite and proper ... even in private. But yesterday it was too much. Too many major league disappointing outcomes made it impossible for me to control the intensity of my emotions. Fortunately, no one was around for me to vent my anguish at. Although I have to confess my kyds did experience some of the tail end of my irritability. Last Updated ( Friday, 07 May 2010 10:10 ) |
Love Displaces Fear Sunday, 02 May 2010 19:13 | Author: Administrator |
So, I was thinking ... again. Never comes to any good, but still I do it from time-to-time;-) We were praying with a friend one night, and I had a revelation of the passage where the N.T. author indicates that love "casts out" fear. I've never really thought about what is meant by this passage, but what I came to realize that night is that for me, the word that best describes the *casting out* process above is *displaces*. How I now look at this passage is, 'As God's love becomes more a part of our lives, it displaces the fear that has controlled and crippled our lives.' It's kind of like the oil and water analogy. As God pours in the water of his love, it displaces the oil forcing the oil of fear up, out and over the lip of the container. It's an old picture, but a good one. Of course we know today that some smart guy some where figured out how to make oil and water mix, but for my simple discussion below, I cling to the old way things worked. Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 May 2010 19:49 ) Face to Face Saturday, 24 April 2010 08:51 | Author: Administrator |
I did the RM thing again last night. About half way into the first set I started to sense God, so I tried to follow using the music I had in front of me. It worked really well for me, and I could see that some of the others were benefited too. So, I ended the first set and went around to visit the folks who were there. I bumped into a gentleman who was new - I'd never seen him before. He was pretty good looking, and he seemed to be pretty capable. He told me just come from the Winnipeg Pen, and he was using the services at RSHRM. He was pretty adamant to tell me that he had an opinion on what I was doing. He didn't like it. Given what I had sensed, I was a bit confused. I'm open to honest criticism regardless of the sobriety of the individual, so I asked him what he didn't like. He started knocking me on my middle class status feeling good about myself reaching down to the needy. He critiqued my musical approach, and he was offended by the way I presented myself. I started by looking in my heart to see if what he was saying was true. Frankly, he was hitting on some pretty tender things in my soul. It's almost like he was 'reading my mail'. About half way through my new friends diatribe, I started to realize something. |
