Hello everyone, if you are out near Langley or Victoria, British Columbia Canada, join us for a huge weekend of exciting events!!  Three Mini Conferences and Network events, Three different Churches and home groups to speak to!!!

Register at www.gracewalkcanada.org asap.

LANGLEY, BC: Here are the details for Thursday April 16^th 

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6-8:30pm

Wings Tap & Grill

19696 Fraser Hwy, Langley, BC  www.greatwings.ca

Contact Info:  Todd Corbett: 778-839-4144

Lorraine Corbett: 778-773-8044

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VICTORIA, BC : Here are the details for the schedule  

Your contacts are Brian & Judy Dunning: 250-727-0929 or bwjadunning@gmail.com

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The Conference Networking Schedule is as follows:  (location is http://www.cccvictoria.ca/ )

Saturday 2:00pm – 4:00pm    Healing From Life’s Hurts

Saturday 7:00pm – 9:00pm    Grace Essentials

Sunday 2:00pm – 4:00pm      The Rest of Grace

PLUS:

Everyone is welcome to join us at three other speaking times over this weekend

1. Saturday April 18^th @ 10:30am – Grace Communion Church (using the same location)  http://www.gcicanada.ca/welcome.php
2. Sunday April 19^th @ 10am  – Christ Community Church http://www.cccvictoria.ca/
3. Monday April 20^th @ 7pm – The Home of Bev and Jan Egil Gulbrandsen  address is 588 Brookleigh Road, Victoria (*this is a wonderful HOME group that meets and continually grows in Grace!!)

Today is a good day.  Today is the day we celebrate the New Covenant that we are under.  (*which means the old covenant is ‘obsolete’ and we are not to pay any attention to it. Heb. 8:13)  Today we also celebrate the new creations we are in Christ.  The Bible says that we have been made brand new through Christ. This is a fact, not a feeling.  When we begin out of the reality of who we really are in Christ, our lives will experience a transformation that will affect us and those around us for eternity.

Start your day today with some mind renewing truths, read them SLOWLY and carefully, there is a LOT to take in here: Continue reading →

Why is God so good…to everyone else?  Why does He seem to ignore my pain, my journey.  Why does everyone else seem to ‘hear from God’, when I cry out from my pain and don’t even get a whisper?  Why do those who think they hear from God rub it into my face, don’t they know that it sends me into a deeper spiral of despair?  Don’t they know that my heart has screamed for ‘my God my God’ and his silence has caused me to be deaf to His voice?  (that is, if He still speaks).

Today is a day to be sensitive to those crying in the darkness.  Today is a day to remember those who suffer in silence.  Today is the day to remember that ‘joy boys’ are the painful salt to any emotional wound.  Continue reading →

Did The Father Forsake Jesus On the Cross? No! (Written by Steve McVey)

For many years I taught the seven sayings of the cross and when I came to the words of Jesus, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” I used the text as evidence that the Father had turned His back on His own Son when Jesus was on the cross. “The Bible is clear that God cannot look upon sin!” I would boldly proclaim. It seemed reasonable to me that God turned away from Jesus. After all, isn’t that what Jesus said?

The answer is, “No, that is not what He said. That is what He asked. There’s a big difference between making an assertion and asking a question.” Continue reading →

Tina Turner had it all wrong when she sang, “What’s love got to do with it, got to do with it.  What’s love but a second hand emotion.” Love has ‘everything’ to do with it.  Love is what runs our world, it is the fuel of all relationships and holds all things together.

The ‘love’ of God is farther reaching than you can possibly imagine!  Think for a minute how big  or how wide it ‘could be’.  Think again, because you aren’t even close.  The writer of Ephesians writes “May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.”  Clearly there is a sense that this love cannot be contained or fully explained, which makes me want to explore a deeper study into the word love.

The early church fathers  understood that the essence of God was ‘love’ (agape).  The word Perichoresis   Continue reading →

Ever since I was a kid, I was told that Jesus loves me because the Bible tells me so.  Isn’t that nice?   Where does it actually say that?  Then I heard He loves everybody, which really wasn’t true according to my tradition because we clearly had categories of people God did NOT love.  (Especially if you were a ‘really’ bad person).  I was confused.  Perhaps God just “kind of” loves everybody with the same ‘love covering’ and then He picks out His favourites.  I wasn’t sure.

So, I decided to find out what the Bible actually says about God and His love for humanity.  What I discovered has blown my mind.  Perhaps now is a good time to set aside your ‘childhood’ teachings on what God’s love is and revisit the subject with a new lens.  I am sure that you will find that some things you were taught are actually true, but other things have been tainted with a cultural bias.

Read very slowly and carefully, read what is says, not what it does not say: Continue reading →

His ‘Light’ shines in and through all darkness…regardless whether one believes it or not, either way, ….it is STILL there!

In order for us to have a proper concept of who God is, we must have some foundational truths in place.  I always begin with God’s DNA, His essence: God is Life, is Love, and is Light.  The second step we need to take in the quest to know the Father, is to look to the son, Jesus.  Since the Son holds all things together, as previously discussed, we now look at another way he has a connection with His entire creation.  Today I want to zoom in on how God is light and literally shines through anything and everything, especially darkness.  Continue reading →

I have discovered three major truths about God that have shaped my lens of him and how I view His creation.  God is life.  God is light. God is love.  In order to know who God is, we do not begin with any Old Testament verses that splash a vast array of depictions of ‘who’ God is, instead we begin with His son Jesus Christ.  If we start anywhere else, we will not have a proper picture of who ‘the Father’ is.

After all, Jesus himself claimed ‘HE’ was the only one who knew the father, meaning, no one else did!  Let’s take a look at some significant verses from the Bible that a groundwork for a better and more biblical understanding of ‘who God is.”  You could be in for a shock! Continue reading →

God is not distant from anyone.  This is a simple fact.  Hopefully you have read and meditated on the Bible verses in yesterday’s post.  If you have not, go back and read it through.  Today we will look at a few more verses that will bring comfort and hope to those believing the lie that is ‘God is far from us’.

I have grown up with the belief that if I am good, God will be near me, and when I sin, God will be far away from me.  It comes from a false understanding of Habakkuk 1:13 that God is too holy to be near sin, (Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You cannot look on wickedness with favor.)   The idea that God cannot stand ‘sin’ and is repelled by it, has fed a lie that I am separated from God.  This has completely messed up my trust in God especially in the area of coming to him in times of trouble.

While believing this lie, I lived out a religious expression of what that lie looked like.  It is called PBA – ‘Performance Based Acceptance’.  If I was going to ‘be close to God, it was up to me.  Likewise, if I screwed up, it was all on me and there was no hope at all that he would hear me when I call, until I ‘get cleaned up first’.  Guilt and Shame just kept building up.

As I came to discover my identity in Christ, it led me down a path Continue reading →

Nothing & No one is separated from God.  This is a simple fact.  There is however the illusion that one can feel separated, but that illusion is only in the mind.  It has taken me a long time to see this, and when I did see it, it took me a long time to admit it out loud.  I was forced to go look at what the Scriptures say, Scriptures I had not really zoomed in on and/or pondered their profound meaning.  Upon doing so I realized that my historical lens greatly impacts my perspective on God and on Christ our creator.   My theology had been shaped by my Bible College & Seminary teachers, Pastors and individuals who have spoken into my life.

So today, on the topic of ‘separation anxiety’, which I think evangelicalism and the entire Western church is obsessed with, Continue reading →