So we are into full gear with our new series "Not Actually Jesus". It’s a perfect series to invite friends to, as it’s all about what Christianity is actually about. But the series is also for Christians, because sometimes we cling to beliefs that are, well, not actually Jesus. Here’s what I believe: the more […]
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So we launched our new series, Not Actually Jesus, by saying that truth matters. Life goes better when we cooperate with the truth, and even though sincerity is important, you can be sincerely wrong. So maybe you’re thinking about becoming a Christian, or you are a Christian and you wonder what the Christian life is
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This one’s huge, friends. Many people today think all paths are equal, or that there are many paths to God. Here’s what we believe: We believe that the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. Therefore, salvation occurs only when people place their faith in
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This week as we callibrate our own opinions and beliefs about the Christian faith against what many Christians hold true about Christianity, here’s what we believe about humanity: We believe that mankind was created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him but became alienated in that relationship through sinful disobedience. As a
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If truth matters in spiritual things, what do we actually believe about God? Here’s what we at Connexus believe the Bible teaches about God. It’s not everything we believe about God, of course, but it does describe how we believe the scripture shows how God s: We believe in one God who exists in three
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It was a great day yesterday at our Barrie campus as we kicked off the new series, Not Actually Jesus (it launches this coming Sunday, June 6th at our Orillia campus!) As promised, we’re starting a discussion this week about what we believe. This should be fun, because the discussion was already ramping up in the foyer
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Over a year ago at Connexus, we made a key decision. We decided to stop all external forms of ‘advertising’. No more flyers in the mail. We canceled our weekly radio show. In fact, we stripped back to the reality that the only evidence of our presence in the community midweek was going to be
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You’ve heard us say it before, but we really value it when people apply what they’ve heard in a message. After all, information itself is of limited value. I know lots of things that have made zero impact on my life or made others’ lives better. The value is not in information alone – it’s
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A good number of times in the last few months I’ve had people tell me how a message or a series we’re doing has come along in the ‘perfect time’ or has been ‘just for them.’ "How did you know?" is the question I get again and again. I’m pretty honest. The truth is I
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So we’ve just cracked the beginning of our 180º series and we’ve already received some great feedback. In part one of the series, we looked at why we often end up doing things we don’t intend to do and why we end up not fulfilling our resolutions. Ultimately, it’s our direction, not intention, that determines
