This Sunday we’ll be having three sermons! Well, okay, not quite. Let me explain. This Sunday will be an exploration in team preaching. I (Pastor Tim Braun) will be preaching but sharing the sermon time with two members of our congregation who...
Read moreOne Summer Service 2018
Olympians Wind Up Party
Even though summer is quickly approaching and Olympians will be taking a break from meetings during this time we are still going strong. The children are working hard to earn their bronze, silver or gold certificates. Our ‘Invite a Friend...
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Anticipate, 2017 This past Sunday we started a new sermon series, beginning a season which our church calls “Anticipate.” MBC often sets aside a few weeks before Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday to refocus our thoughts, preparing...
Read moreMaking Sense of the Psalms
This past Sunday we sang/read through Psalm 89. As I mentioned during our service, this is a Psalm that begins cheerful enough but, as each section progresses, gets darker and darker. It is a Psalm that expresses anger and frustration to God...
Read moreThe Story this Week: Pilgrim Worship
Since September I have been leading a Life Group made up of people from our music teams and some of their spouses. It’s been a great time getting to know one another outside of our regular ministry setting by studying, sharing, and praying...
Read moreThe Story this Week: Bringing Our Kingdom?
In this week’s post I would like to address a certain phrase that appears in one of the songs we sing on a fairly regular basis. But I also want to place that song within the larger story of worship that we encounter each week. Below...
Read moreThe Story this Week: Remember, Retell, Rejoice
It’s been quite some time since we’ve used this space to simply walk through the structure of our worship, explaining the driving purpose behind our worship practices. For those of you who have read some of these blog posts, you’ll probably know...
Read moreWorship as Submission
In this past Sunday’s sermon, I spoke about how, in Matthew 2, the Wise Men came to worship Jesus. In that sermon, I focussed on how this story represents all the nations of the earth worshipping Jesus as the true King and how the Wise Men’s...
Read moreThe 12 Days of Christmas
As I write this, we are now nearing the end of the Advent season; our time of waiting and anticipation for the revelation of Christ gives way to rejoicing and celebration at his arrival. Celebration! That’s what the 12 Days of...
Read moreWorshipping with our Eyes Wide Open
In the previous post , I shared about how God created us with five amazing senses and how, particularly throughout the Old Testament, we see God providing his people with ways to worship that use all of these senses. I contrasted this holistic...
Read moreWorshipping with all our Senses
When God created humanity, he made us so that we could interact with everything he created using all of the senses he created us with. And we know that God wants us to live in relationship with him and to worship him using all of these senses. We...
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