Before You Begin Pause. Quiet your mind, take a slow breath in and out. Stay in this moment. Passage Isaiah 8:11-14 Reading & Reflection I don’t know about you, but I can get sucked into doomscrolling without any effort. And I’m not even looking for garbage or controversy online. How about you? As we meet […]
By Carey Nieuwhof, Founding & Teaching Pastor at Connexus Church READ 1 Corinthians 12:27 REFLECT You probably grew up thinking of the church as something you go to. Like it’s an institution or organization. Like it’s something you either belong to or don’t. Well, think again. You don’t GO to church. You ARE the church. That’s
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Thanks for being part of our seven days of prayer. Here’s a short prayer based on the remarkable prayer in Daniel 9: 1-23 which we looked at today in the message. Pray it in your own words or just as it’s printed below. Pray it slowly enough that you mean what you’re praying. Let
There’s something in all of us that wants to be successful. You have it in you. I definitely have it in me. It’s almost universal. Think about it: very few parents encourage their kids to be unsuccessful. Success (however you define it) is almost a universal pursuit. In the instant-results, instant-measurement, instant-assessment culture we live in,
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One reason people stay away from Christianity is not because they don’t know any Christians. It’s often because they do. Our actions and our words as followers of Jesus have the power to attract or repel people from Christianity. The number of people who never go to church or follow Jesus keeps growing. And their thinking keeps
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I don’t know about you, but as for me, the longer I serve in leadership, the more intentional I have to be at keeping my heart open and fully alive. That’s a polite way of saying that the longer I do it, the more I have to guard against my heart becoming hard. Hardness of
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I talk to so many people outside the church who say they get along better than people in the church. If church people behaved like they tell other people to behave, they might come. I’ve met so many Christian couples who just couldn’t work it out. Famously, the Christian divorce rate is almost identical to
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We’ve seen God do some incredible things at Connexus over the last 9 years. We’re so thankful for that! And now, for the first time we’re opening our doors to the wider church in Canada as Connexus hosts the first ever Canadian Church Leader’s Conference on June 8-10th 2017 in Barrie. Connexus people…we’re going to give
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How many times have you gotten to the end of a day only to wonder where all the time went? Or more accurately, wondered where your productivity went. Welcome to the club. Productivity is easier to measure with some jobs, where you’re dealing with tangibles (how many diapers have you changed today … how many
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It would be great to crush your New Year’s resolutions for once, wouldn’t it? I mean you try, but why does it seem so difficult to actually make progress in life? I get that. I think we all have a few resolutions that make it on the list every year, only to be abandoned, forgotten
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