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We are a community of Christ followers who meet at the Newmarket SilverCity on Sundays at 10:00AM and throughout the week in various homes. For more information, please email david@theharbournewmarket.ca.

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    Lectio Divina: Psalms 22:1-8 (Lent 4)

    Psalms 22:1-8 (NIV) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?     Why are you so far from saving me,     so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,     by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;     you are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust;     they trusted and you delivered them. To you they cried out and were saved;     in you they trusted and were not put to shame. But I am a worm and not a man,     scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me;     they hurl insults, shaking their heads. “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,     “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him,     since he delights in him.” Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    8 min

  2. -5 J

    Building on the Rock

    This week, Will Dyer offers an epilogue to our Beatitudes study looking at the Sermon on the Mount as a whole. Being people of the Beatitudes is about more than listening to Jesus's words but about putting them into action. Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here. Home Church Questions: 1. What stood out to you from Sunday’s teaching? 2. Why is it important to have a Christ-centered hermeneutic? Why is it important to have a community hermeneutic? 3. Brian Zahnd says that, “God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We haven’t always known this, but now we do.” What does this mean and what significance does it have for understanding the scriptures? 4. Read Matthew 4:17, 5:1-7:29. Take turns reading 2-3 sections at a time. This will probably take a while!  5. What stands out to you from these passages? Feel free to apply the community hermeneutic as we try to understand Christ’s teachings together by raising questions about what is puzzling, offering various angles or perspectives on the text, and allowing the Holy Spirit to guide the conversation. 6. Bonus (optional): read Luke 6:17-49, 11:1-13. What stands out to you from these passages when compared to the same teachings in Matthew? 7a. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world. Ask the Lord to form us into people of the Beatitudes. 7b. If you would like to pray the Lord’s Prayer together… Our Father, who art in heaven; hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    35 min

  3. 9 MARS

    Lectio Divina: Isaiah 53:3-6 (Lent 3)

    Isaiah 53:3-6 (NLT) He was despised and rejected—     a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.     He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;     it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,     a punishment for his own sins! But he was pierced for our rebellion,     crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole.     He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.     We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him     the sins of us all. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    7 min

  4. 8 MARS

    Faithful When It Counts

    Today, Dave Blow wraps up our teachings on the beatitudes after an interview with Rachel and Michelle, our KidsPoints Coordinators. Jesus tells us that we are blessed when we are persecuted for his sake, not because we are difficult or annoying, but because the world will ultimately reject his way. Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here. Home Church Questions: 1. What part of Dirk Willems’ story (included below) impacts you most? Why? "In 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems escaped from prison for his faith. As he fled across a frozen pond, the guard chasing him fell through the ice. Dirk could have kept running to freedom. Instead, he turned back and rescued the man who was pursuing him. He was immediately re-arrested and later executed. Dirk did not just endure persecution—he embodied Jesus’ command to love his enemy. This is what it looks like when the Beatitudes take flesh." 2. What stood out to you from this week's teaching? 3. Read Matthew 5:10-12 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage? 4. What does it mean to be persecuted “because of righteousness” rather than because of our own behaviour? 5. Why do you think Jesus ends the Beatitudes with persecution? 6. What do you think it means to “rejoice and be glad” in the face of opposition? 7. Dirk turned back to save the very man chasing him. What does that reveal about his understanding of enemy-love? 8. What would it look like to practice that kind of love in today’s context? 9. How do we discern the difference between genuine persecution and normal disagreement? 10. Where do you feel pressure to compromise your allegiance to Jesus? 11. Have you ever experienced opposition because of your faith? What did it reveal about your heart? 12. What small step of faithful witness might God be inviting you into this season of Lent? 13. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    39 min

  5. 2 MARS

    Lectio Divina: Psalms 24 (Lent 2)

    Psalms 24 (NIV) The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,     the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas     and established it on the waters. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?     Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,     who does not trust in an idol     or swear by a false god. They will receive blessing from the Lord     and vindication from God their Saviour. Such is the generation of those who seek him,     who seek your face, God of Jacob. Lift up your heads, you gates;     be lifted up, you ancient doors,     that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory?     The Lord strong and mighty,     the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, you gates;     lift them up, you ancient doors,     that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory?     The Lord Almighty—     he is the King of glory. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    8 min

  6. 1 MARS

    Community Sunday: The Body of Christ

    This morning, Dave Blow offers a reflection on what it means to be a part of the body of Christ, building on the reflection about unity that was offered last month on the Community Sunday. To be party of the body of Christ is not a matter of attendance or belief, but an existential state of being. Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here. Home Church Questions: 1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching? 2. Read 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage and in Paul's description of the body of Christ? 3. What does it mean to you personally to hear, “Now you are the body of Christ”? 4. Why do you think Paul emphasizes that every part of the body matters—even the less visible ones? 5. How does simply showing up (physically, emotionally, spiritually) contribute to the health of the body? 6. What gifts, experiences, or perspectives do you feel God has entrusted to you for the sake of others? 7. What happens to the body when members hold back or disconnect? 8. What does “suffering together” and “rejoicing together” look like in a home church context? 9. How is being a committed member different from being a consumer of church activities? 10. How might our faith change if we truly believed that Christ chooses to work through this community—through us? 11. What is one small step you could take to participate in the life of this body more fully? 12. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    18 min

  7. 23 FÉVR.

    Lectio Divina: Malachi 3:1-5 (Lent 1)

    Malachi 3:1-5 (NIV) “I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years. “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud labourers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    8 min

  8. 22 FÉVR.

    Blessed Are the Peacemakers

    This week, we welcome a special guest speaker from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Stephen Roy. Stephen shared a teaching with us about how making peace shows that we are children of God as God is a God of peace and not a God of violence. Please find the slide deck for this week's teaching here. Home Church Questions: 1. What stood out to you from this week's teaching? 2. Read Matthew 5:9 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage? 3. When you hear the word "peacemaker", what images or experiences come to mind? 4. How is peacemaking different from simply avoiding conflict? 5. Why do you think Jesus connects peacemaking with being called “children of God”? 6. What does peacemaking reveal about the character of God? 7. Read Romans 12:17-21 (preferably in multiple translations). What stands out to you from this passage? 8. What practical actions does this text suggest about how to “make peace”? 9. Historically, Anabaptists have emphasized nonviolence and enemy-love. How does that deepen your understanding of peacemaking? 10. Where do you see subtle forms of retaliation in our culture (online, politics, family dynamics)? How might followers of Jesus respond differently? 11. Pray with and for one another, our church community, and our world. Be in touch. Send us a text here. Instagram: @theharbournewmarket Website: theharbournewmarket.ca Email: david@theharbournewmarket.ca

    27 min
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We are a community of Christ followers who meet at the Newmarket SilverCity on Sundays at 10:00AM and throughout the week in various homes. For more information, please email david@theharbournewmarket.ca.

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