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• Thu 24 Jan

  Ears to Hear - Learning from Women's Voices

  
  
  Each year at The Meeting House we have a Peace & Reconciliation series that addresses important social and relational issues within secular society and within the Christian Church. Associated with that series we also host an “Ears to Hear” event, which gives us an opportunity to listen to and learn from voices that have been underrepresented in the historic life of the Western Church in which we find ourselves. Last year we were blessed to hear from non-European...

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• Wed 22 Aug

  Radical Christians and the Word of God (Part 3 of 3): Application

  
  
  

  We believe in the authoritative, infallible, inerrant Word of God – and his name is Jesus. 

  "All the Scriptures, both the Old and the New Testaments, on every hand, point us to Christ Jesus that we are to follow him."
  ~ Menno Simons (16th Century)

  Welcome back to our concluding post in this series. If you didn’t catch the first two posts, do not read further, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars. Instead, go  here  and start at the beginning....

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• Mon 20 Aug

  Radical Christians and the Word of God (Part 2 of 3): Inerrancy

  
  
  

  We believe in the authoritative, inerrant, infallible Word of God – and his name is Jesus.

  Welcome back! In this second part of our series on Scripture we’re talking about the idea of biblical inerrancy, why many Anabaptists like myself don’t use the term to describe what we think about the Bible, why that makes some Evangelicals uncomfortable, and why this should be an issue for rich discussion and debate, not division. (If you haven’t read part 1 yet,...

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• Tue 14 Aug

  Radical Christians and the Word of God (Part 1 of 3): Authority

  
  
  

  We believe in the authoritative, inerrant, infallible Word of God – and his name is Jesus.

  This is the first of three blog posts on the authority, inerrancy, and application of the Word of God from an Anabaptist Christian perspective. Anabaptism is a 500 year old movement that primarily formed on the heels of the Protestant Reformation, and became known as  the Radical Reformation . “Radical” is a good word to describe Anabaptists, since it comes...

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• Thu 31 May

  2018 Town Hall

  
  
  If you missed the Town Hall or just want a refresher, you can find the full video + an additional Q&A podcast online: themeetinghouse.com townhalllive
  
  
  

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• Thu 22 Mar

  Easter 2018

  
  
  Join us this Easter at one of our sites as we remember and celebrate Jesus’ death and resurrection. On Good Friday, we will be taking a closer look at how Jesus meets us in our suffering and then celebrating the redemption and hope that comes on Easter Sunday. There will be live music and short videos, followed by a reading from the Bible and a short devotion.
  
  To view our locations and service times, check out: themeetinghouse.com easter

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• Tue 05 Dec

  Christmas Together | Christmas Eve 2017

  
  
  This year we're doing someting new! For the first time ever, we are celebrating Christmas Eve across all our Regional Sites! 
  It's a great opportunity to come together in our local communities and connect with friends and neighbours, new and old, who make up the wonderful neighbourhoods were our sites meet on Sunday mornings. 
  
  For more info about service times and locations go to themeetinghouse.com christmas
  
  Curious about what it looks like to spend Christmas...

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• Sat 26 Aug

  Where Sunday School Failed Me

  
  

  When I was a youth pastor, I remember having a young man tell me that he had learned so much in his time with me. I was humbled, but curious what was behind him saying that to me, I asked him what it was that prompted him to say that. He told me that in his previous church experience, he had been taught stories from the Bible in a very detached way from his own life, and that sometimes they had a “punch line” of sorts but without any clear application to life, connection to Jesus...

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• Thu 20 Jul

  THE "F" WORD

  
  

  
  (RE)UNION 9 of 10

  Just a friendly reminder today that the biblical word for “faith” ( pistis ) is the same word for “faithfulness” (also  pistis ). We are saved by faith (trust) which will manifest itself in a lifelong committed love relationship (faithfulness).

  It’s that way with any marriage isn’t it. When Nina and I were married, our vows to each other were a one time act of trust (faith), which means that we will now live in committed...

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• Thu 13 Jul

  SELF-TRANSCENDENCE, C.S. LEWIS, & THE SHEEP

  
  
  

  (RE)UNION 8 OF 10

  Self-transcendence (getting out of ourselves and connected to a higher reality) is what God designed us for. Like headphones, we aren’t really being what we were made to be until we are connected to a source of music beyond ourselves.

  We can transcend UP through things like prayer, meditation, worship, and simply waking up to an awareness of God’s presence all around us – what some have called “practicing the presence of God.”...

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