Intersections

  [NOTE: This sermon was done in note form, so it is not the sermon verbatim. Also for context, I was preaching on the book, "Lasting Change by Carey Nieuwhof] Last week for this sermon series - next week we will have Bashor Children’s Home as guest speaker. I would say I have a lot to cover - about half the book, but come to Sunday School over the next 6 weeks, and we are going to go more in-depth than I could ever do justice for in a 20 minute sermon.  But we will be covering two topics today - Why are Young Adults Walking Away from the Church? And What Cultural Trends Are We Missing?  Why Are Young Adults Walking away from the church?  Culture changing rapidly No group is leaving more quickly than those Carey identifies as “millennials” - generations under the age of 30, which is objectively wrong.  I am from the millennial generation - or at least I feel like I belong more to it than Gen X (the one before). Millennials (in broad terms) are people born betwee...

  Good morning again - last week, we talked through the first chapter of the Book of John, how the light of Christmas was lit and that lighthouses can help guide those in danger away from it.  This week, we’ve looped back around a couple of weeks because we are back talking about John the Baptist, continuing the story from… three weeks ago, I think? Hopefully, you’re not sick of John yet, although this is the last week we will be in the gospels for a while. Anyway - as you can see outside, the seasons are changing. Winter is here! Oh… no … not those seasons. Our season of Christmas has finished, and now we are in the season after Epiphany. We are back to those so-called “ordinary weeks” or numbered weeks because since we’ve celebrated Christmas and Epiphany, these are kind of the meat and bones weeks for Jesus’ actual ministry. Today we’ll be starting with his baptism, and over the next couple of months, we’ll be discovering being the body of Christ: how we can show that LOVE...

  I trust that everyone had a good Christmas. It seems strange that we are back here again so quickly, but I hear preachers only work on Sundays. Thank you for being here. I know the week after Christmas is considered a “low Sunday” whether that’s attendance, or maybe my preparation, so thanks for joining me.  You may have seen that our topic today is Lost at Home, which I understand can be kind of confusing. As we’ve travelled through Advent, we’ve been on our journey to discover where our homes are, the places we can be ourselves, no matter who we are around or what’s going on. The places where we can let our guard down and just… be real.  I hope over the last month or so you’ve never felt lost, but Advent is a season where we can easily lose ourselves in busy-ness, lose ourselves in decorations and preparations for parties, lose ourselves in trivial things that now that the holiday is over, you may feel a little more empty.  I get that. We had such a high a f...