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  • What Is Deconstruction | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus

    What Is Deconstruction | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus
    Apr 1 2022
    Deconstruction was a term first coined by the philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960’s. Derrida’s use of the term was not about tearing down and building. Rather it meant becoming more mindful of the way we use words. Words themselves can privilege power, and we need to attend to the way words can shape narratives. In this teach we will deconstruct what we mean by the term deconstruction and discover that it is not a singular term or static experience. Rather, there are various dynamic ways— both helpful and unhelpful— of going through deconstruction. And ultimately, there is way of understanding deconstruction that sees Jesus at the centre of this journey.
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    46 Min.
  • The Benefit of the Doubt | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus

    The Benefit of the Doubt | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus
    Apr 1 2022
    Sociologists tells us that 43-45% of people will go through a major faith transition at some point in their life. And that’s any faith transition. So that can be from one Christian denomination to another denomination; that can be from belief to atheism; that can also be from secularism to some form of faith. 44% is a huge number. It has some folks raising the alarm against those who would begin a process of doubt or healthy deconstruction. Doubt is considered by some to be the enemy of faith. In this teach we will discover that viewing doubt in this way is both unhelpful and un-scriptural. Furthermore, it perpetuates the myth is that when we go through the process of doubt and deconstruction, we have somehow lost our faith. The fact is that if you doubt, it means that you do have faith. Throughout the ancient history of the church, faith has been defined as a combination of knowing and not knowing. Of a willingness and readiness by the grace of God to live with a certain degree of unknowing— or what the mystics call darkness.
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    42 Min.
  • The Church Deconstructed | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus

    The Church Deconstructed | Paul Walker | Deconstruction With Jesus
    Apr 1 2022
    October 31… Halloween or All Hallows Eve. While most people think of pumpkins, costumes, and candy— there is another meaning of this calendar holiday: reformation. 504 year ago today, Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis statements to the Wittenberg door and unknowingly launched a reformation in the Western Church. While this was a seminal event for Protestant Christians, it is just one example of how the church has experienced moments of decisive re-examination. In the positive sense, reformation has taken the form of renewal moments, monastic orders, and social changes. In the negative sense, it has led to schisms, division, and a fracturing of unity in the church. In the year 2021, some (like Phyllis Tickle) , have suggested we are on the verge of some major changes in the church. Certainly the usage of the #exvangelical & #deconstruction hashtags across social media have been persistent since 2016, garnering more than 300 million views on TikTok, 54,000 posts on Instagram and routinely getting more than 100,000 daily impressions on Twitter. In the age of deconstruction— what might it mean to be the church in our time? What might Jesus be asking the church to healthily deconstruct today? What might the church say to those who have walked away from faith?
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    41 Min.
  • Knowing Reconciliation | Howard Jolly | Mixtapes

    Knowing Reconciliation | Howard Jolly | Mixtapes
    Apr 1 2022
    David asks in Psalm 24, “Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?” Rather than leave the question unanswered, David replies in the next verse, “The one who has clean hands and a pure heart”. The call to a pure heart is the call to being people of Jesus. Yet, as we consider the church’s legacy in Canada— especially in connection with Indigenous peoples— we must name the reality that church has not always hand clean hands and pure hearts. Howard Jolly is joining us this morning to help us understand the need for reconciliation through his own story and others. To be people reconciliation requires us to know God intimately, and to be people of clean hands and pure heart. These sort of people whom God is using as minister’s of reconciliation.
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    47 Min.
  • Great Is Thy Faithfulness | Paul Walker | Mixtapes

    Great Is Thy Faithfulness | Paul Walker | Mixtapes
    Apr 1 2022
    The Psalmist praises the faithfulness of God. It’s a faithfulness that “endures forever”v2. For the Psalmist, God’s love is shown through God’s faithfulness to an unfaithful people. Yet for many people, the picture they have of God that is anything but faithful. For some folks, God is only furious and angry at them. They believe the lie that God abandons sinners, and that they must earn their way back into God’s good graces. To this lie, we counter with the story of Peter. Peter is a deeply flawed man, and God in Christ is faithful to him. Even when Peter three times denies Jesus, we discover a God whose faithfulness is revealed in the midst of our deepest failures.
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    38 Min.
  • Peace With The Earth | Scott Gerbrandt | Mixtapes

    Peace With The Earth | Scott Gerbrandt | Mixtapes
    Apr 1 2022
    Psalm 104 is a song capturing the heart of the two creation narratives we read in Genesis 1 +2. In this song we hear the repeated themes: (1) God is Creator of ALL things (including humans); (2) God, with grace, mercy and wonder has created an abundant and generous home for ALL things and (3) ALL things look to God for life! This psalm beautifully captures the “shalom” – the fullness of right, good and mature relationships between God and Creation (including humans). This is the way it was created to be AND is what God is about in God’s “rescue plan” for ALL things (Colossians 1:15-20) – there is nothing outside of God’s redemptive plan – God intends to bring back Shalom (including humans). It matters how we treat the earth because it matters to God! God's call and hope for humanity's role in creation is to "tend & keep" (Gen 2)... Let's get to it!
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    38 Min.
  • Waiting in the Darkness | Carolyn Klassen | Light Up The Night

    Waiting in the Darkness | Carolyn Klassen | Light Up The Night
    Apr 1 2022
    In the beginning, the earth was formless and void (TOHU wa BOHU). This was a chaotic and negative scene. In the ancient world, it was the type of land that was desolate and could not have order. God steps in and creates order. God speaks light to the chaotic darknesses and the result is peace (shalom) and the thriving of all creation. It was good and very good. But in an instant, all that changed as Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s good instruction. They took of the fruit and ate, and sin entered the world. Fellowship broken. Peace shattered. Creation thrown into chaos. Darkness, depravity, fear, shame, and selfishness flooded the human heart, and plunged us back into the darkness and towards a TOHU wa BOHU. The situation was dire. But, God promises that we would not be left alone in the dark. A rescuer would come who would speak order to our chaos. On the first Sunday of Advent 2021, we join the longing of all those waiting in the darkness for light to come.
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    39 Min.
  • A Witness to the Light | Lorelle Perry | Light Up The Night

    A Witness to the Light | Lorelle Perry | Light Up The Night
    Apr 1 2022
    In the Gospel according to Mark, Jesus simply appears as a full-grown adult in the middle of the wilderness. But before Jesus can appear, someone has to prepare the way for him. So Mark begins his story, not with Mary and Joseph, but with a prophet, the first one anyone has heard in more than 400 years. Mark’s good news story begins with John the Baptist. Mark connects what John the Baptist is about to do through the prophetic cry of Isaiah, “Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight in the desert a highway for our God!” Mark isn’t just telling his listeners to hop on the road grader and smooth out the bumps. He’s saying, “Build a whole new road through this wilderness! A new thing is about to happen among you. God is coming.” How will this road get built? How will we prepare the way? Through the “baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.” On the second Sunday of Advent, how might we ‘prepare the way’ for Jesus in our lives? How might we be a witness to the coming of Jesus?
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    44 Min.