This week we will take a break from the series on Keys To Happiness and look at what we hold as most precious or valuable in our lives and how that may be shaping our thinking and behavior in ways we were not aware of – maybe for good, maybe for ill.
Please join us Sunday at 10:30 a.m. or connect with us on Facebook and watch the live stream of the service.
How would you define happiness? The dictionary states very unhelpfully: The state of being happy. It feels a bit like trying to define love. We know when we feel loving and we know when we stop feeling that way. Some say: Happiness is when we experience frequent positive emotions, such as joy and peace and infrequent (though not absent) negative emotions, such as sadness, anxiety and anger.
Others say it may have nothing to do with frequency – it might be more about how we hold, process and interpret things.
This week we will continue to explore what God says about happiness. Hint: it has a lot to do with our attitude and willingness to work on ourselves internally.
This week we get guidance from this part of the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
If you were asked, “What would make you happy?” how would you answer? It is not unusual to think that if a certain thing happened or if a person acted a certain way or did a certain thing then we would be happy. The problem with this way of thinking is that our happiness becomes dependent upon circumstances, people or events outside of our control. We have a much better chance at experiencing happiness if we instead recognize that our happiness has to do with our choices, attitudes and behaviors – all things that we have control over.
In this sermons series we will explore the things that Jesus said are the indicators of happiness. They are taken from simple statements He made in the Sermon on the Mount.
Join us Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
This Sunday is Palm Sunday. We will have a procession with palms during the children’s portion of the service to celebrate God’s presence in our life. In the adult talk we will focus on the story of Lazarus being brought back to life after being dead for four days. It is a good lead into the story of Jesus’s own resurrection on Easter Sunday.
The miracle of this story reminds us of our own life, which will go one even after the death of our body. It also reminds us that the Lord has the ability to bring back to life our lost hopes and dreams, to pump life back into relationships that seem dead or lifeless, and to lift us up and set us back on our feet when we have fallen – no matter how far.
Join us for worship and a potluck lunch following the service.
The Holy Supper or Communion will also be offered during the service to help us to connect with the Lord and His love and plans for us.
See you Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Is this surprising news coming from a church? Churches can get a reputation for being places that promote surrendering all joy and delight and offering guilt and shame instead. But we really were created to be happy and to enjoy life and all of its delights. What’s the catch? Come Sunday and see if there is one.
Sunday 10:30 a.m.
We can be so busy. So busy doing things, moving from one thing to the next or viewing one news item or social media post to another that we can end up missing out on what is most important and most enriching – connection. Not internet or wifi connection – human connection, connection with our higher self, connection with God. If we get stronger connections in these areas we might find that we are a lot happier and a lot less stressed.
See you Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
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We don’t like to be uncomfortable or to experience pain. Makes sense. But we may be stunting our ability to grow spiritually if we avoid all discomfort. Our discomfort is often a window into something we need to work through. If we mask it or avoid it we won’t ever deal with it. If we learn how to feel and deal we can make forward progress.
We will talk about how to feel and deal this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. We hope you can join us.
We may have the impression that to be a spiritual person we need to devote a serious amount of time and effort toward and take deep dives into spiritual practices for it to make any difference. Since we don’t have time for all that we may just give up – not bothering to do much of anything. When we are constantly on the go and run busy lives what are things that we can do to fit in little moments to connect and stay spiritually focussed amidst it all? This week we will tease out from what might be called a full blown spiritual practice some things that we can do quickly and on the move to create hope, happiness and connection.
See you Sunday at 10:30 a.m. or watch the livestream on our Facebook page (either live or whenever you can get to it – it will be there).
It is easy to go through our days as parents just trying to get by, focused on trying to get the children in bed as quickly as possible so we can get on with life. Some days are certainly like this, and that is understandable, but it is probably not what we want to become a pattern. If we were to stop and think about it we would most likely want to get a bit more out of parenting and to offer more to our children. This Sunday we will talk about spiritual goals we can set for our parenting so that we can prepare our children for their life in this world, and all its challenges, as well as help them to put their best foot forward for their own spiritual lives. We might just find that we enjoy our parenting a lot more as well.
See you Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
