Pilgrim Church

Pilgrim Church

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If you are new here, we're so glad you found us! We exist to love our city and to invite our neighbours to flourish by rooting our lives in the outrageous love and life of Jesus. Pilgrim Church is located at 6075 Inverness St, Vancouver, BC! We gather for worship on Sundays at 10:30am. Come join us! You are always invited :) Follow us on Instagram @pilgrimyvr, Youtube @pilgrimchurchyvr, and www.pilgrimchurch.ca

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The Vocation of Reconciliation with Josh Liem

The Vocation of Reconciliation with Josh Liem 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2 If a machine can do what you were trained to do, faster and cheaper, what are you here for? This Sunday we turn to 2 Corinthians 5, where Paul answers critics who ranked him as unimpressive, and discover that our first calling is not a career but the ministry of reconciliation. Come wrestle with what makes work meaningful and human. For reflection & discussion: What was the first job you ever had, and what's one thing it taught you that you still carry? Paul says believers have been reconciled to God, yet pleads with them to "be reconciled to God." How do you make sense of both being true? Where are you most tempted to measure yourself, or others, by an "outward human point of view": productivity, appearance, income, followers, or comparison against AI? Who in this group has a clear sense of their calling, and how did they come to it? Share stories of nudges, catastrophes, or slow realizations that clarified what life was asking of you. Where do you feel energy in your soul to work? Is it a specific problem, relationship, tension, injustice, creative endeavour, or something else? Would anyone here affirm these hints of a calling or shape of ministry of reconciliation? Paul's tentmaking was a deliberate choice that served his ministry. How might your day job, or your daily responsibilities if you aren't employed, become a place where reconciliation actually happens between people, or between people and God? Many people in our city are anxious about AI and the future of work. Is there someone in your workplace or neighbourhood carrying that anxiety whom you could listen to this week? How might this group help people facing job loss or career change?
Sep 28

Growing Through Giving with Guest Dr Ed Ng

Growing Through Giving with Guest Dr Ed Ng Genesis 1:25-27; 2:7, 20-23 In an age of AI companions and increasingly virtual relationships, what constitutes a "real" relationship? Drawing from Genesis and the Christian understanding of the Trinity, this sermon explores what it means to be made in the image of God-is-relationship. Being made in God's image calls us into relationships where we give ourselves, seek the flourishing of others, and discover that, paradoxically, we grow most fully through love. For reflection & discussion: What stood out to you most from the sermon, and why? How does this message challenge or affirm your current understanding of God or faith? Was there a specific story, scripture, or phrase that you found especially meaningful or difficult? How can we live this out together in our daily lives or as a group? What is one step you feel invited to take this week in response to the sermon? Dr. Edward Ng is a Registered Psychologist in private practice in Vancouver and is the founder and director of Eastgate Psychological Services. He provides counselling services to individuals and some couples, and provides consultations for leaders looking for relational and cultural insight.
Sep 22

Can AI Cure Loneliness with Josh Liem

Can AI Cure Loneliness with Josh Liem Genesis 2; John 17 Before sin, death, and the devil, God declared one thing “not good.” This Sunday, we’re in Genesis 2, where neither God, nor solitude, nor every other living creature was suitable for the first human. The earthling needed another like him, yet different. Come explore the implications of artificial companions in our created need to be known and in community. For reflection & discussion: If you could have any animal companion for life, what would you choose? What is the difference between loneliness and solitude? Where do you use AI in your own life? How would you suggest that we / the church address loneliness practically? Who do you know is someone who wouldn’t reach out first when they feel lonely? What could you do for them this week? For further reflection: are there places you use AI that you would hide or be ashamed of? Why? Is there someone you could trust to be open about your usage of AI?
Sep 13

Being Human (In the AI Age): Behold the Human with Josh Liem

Behold the Human with Josh Liem Genesis 1:26-28; John 19:5 As artificial intelligence reshapes how we work, connect, and seek answers, what does it mean to be human? We begin our series, Being Human in the AI Age, by exploring humanity’s creation in God’s image and looking to Jesus—the image of the invisible God, standing wounded before Pilate. Together, we’ll consider how his life invites us to use our power, respond to suffering, and grow in love for our neighbours. For reflection & discussion: How do you feel about AI? Hopeful, fearful, skeptical, or a mix? What experiences have shaped your response? What would you place your worth and dignity if your work or knowledge were easily done by a robot? Jesus seems to invite us to enter into the suffering of others as he does. What suffering do you see? What would entering into that suffering look like?
Sep 7

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector with Josh Liem

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector with Josh Liem Luke 18:9-14 We close our series on the provocative parables of Jesus with the one about the Pharisee and the Tax collector. And Jesus brilliantly baits the trap with two people to compare while teaching disciples to stop comparing themselves to others. Will you take the bait? For reflection & discussion: Who are you most tempted to compare yourself to, and why? Who is the “tax collector,” the person or group or demographic of people that you’d find scandalous imagining God welcoming? What is your relationship to the spiritual disciplines mentioned here: prayer, fasting, tithing? Consider finding or reviewing your rhythm / rule of life with a spiritual friend or mentor. Further Resources: Timothy A. Friedrichsen, “The Temple, a Pharisee, a Tax Collector, and the Kingdom of God: Rereading a Jesus Parable (Luke 18:10-14A),” Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 124, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 89-119.
Aug 31

A New Approach to Uncertainty with Guest Rev. Dave Mohr

A New Approach to Uncertainty with Guest Rev. Dave Mohr John 15:5-11 Life can throw things at us that are so overwhelming they demand a totally different approach. In John 15, Jesus gives His disciples—and us—a radically different way to face uncertainty, difficulty, and everything the world throws our way. This weekend, we’ll discover what it really means to remain in Him, stay close, and find the kind of life and joy that can only come from Jesus. For reflection & discussion: Jesus says, “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” What do you think it practically looks like to “stay close” to Jesus in the middle of an ordinary week? The sermon contrasts “trying to become a better version of myself” with allowing Jesus to produce fruit through me. Where are you most tempted to rely on your own strength rather than Jesus’ strength? “Remaining in Him is not the same as imitating Him.” What do you think is the difference between trying to act like Jesus and actually allowing Jesus to work through you? Think about a current area of uncertainty, difficulty, or frustration in your life. How might that situation look different if your first response were, “Jesus, I can’t—but You can, through me”? Jesus says that He wants His joy to be in us and that our joy may be complete. What connection do you see between staying close to Jesus and experiencing His joy—even when circumstances remain difficult? For personal reflection: What is one area of your life where Jesus may be inviting you to stop trying harder and simply stay closer? -- Before becoming the executive minister for the BCBA, Dave served as the pastor of an CMA church in Calgary, Alberta. Having been married since 1991, he and his wife, Kim, have three adult children. Though he has been geographically displaced fan for some time, Dave is a life-long Edmonton Oilers fan.
Aug 24

The 5 Brothers with Josh Liem

The 5 Brothers with Josh Liem Luke 16:19-31 This Sunday, we will explore the disturbing parable about a rich man and Lazarus, and the unbridgeable chasm between Hades and paradise. Is this a map of the afterlife, or about the people right in front of us? For reflection & discussion: Who is the “Lazarus” at your gate? Is the fear of hell or some image of the afterlife driving what you do? What impossibility in heart change do you need God to move in? Consider praying for that right now. What is your current God-honouring process around eating/feasting? As a spiritual discipline, try either fasting a meal that you would normally eat alone, or inviting someone outside of your comfort zone to a meal this week.
Aug 17

The Shrewd Manager with Josh Liem

Provocative Parables of Jesus, The Shrewd Manager with Josh Liem Luke 16:1-8 This week, we take on what scholars would call a notoriously difficult parable. Why would Jesus tell a story of a boss commending an embezzler? For reflection & discussion: Have you listened or learned from a person you’d normally write off? If so, how? Find a podcast with a host or guest from the opposite side of you theologically or politically, and ask how you might grow in holiness (rather than anger or bitterness) through them. What’s in your ‘rulebook’? Where might you be tougher or more exclusive than Jesus? Why do these exclusions matter to you? What is one ‘limited resource’ (money, time, attention, relationship) that you could steward more shrewdly for the sake of God’s kingdom and neighbour’s flourishing? Further Resources: Carey Nieuwhof Podcast, “Episode 817: Grieving Your Ministry Wounds: Father Ronald Rolheiser and John Mark Comer on Getting Past Bitterness and Giving Your Life and Death Away,” ttps://careynieuwhof.com/episode-817/. Klyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus.

If you are new here, we're so glad you found us! We exist to love our city and to invite our neighbours to flourish by rooting our lives in the outrageous love and life of Jesus. Pilgrim Church is located at 6075 Inverness St, Vancouver, BC! We gather for worship on Sundays at 10:30am. Come join us! You are always invited :) Follow us on Instagram @pilgrimyvr, Youtube @pilgrimchurchyvr, and www.pilgrimchurch.ca

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