Resources

DISCLAIMER: Being listed here DOES NOT IMPLY full agreement with everything that might be claimed or held by these ministries or persons. Ask, if you wonder where Pilgrim is at. These are just some of the works of the authors listed. More can be found on YouTube, etc.

Four Areas of Formation for Followers of Jesus
  • Peace with God - The Basics of Following Jesus
  • Peace with Self - Understanding how and why we need to emotionally grow and also communicate in healthier ways. Developing Spiritual Life practices as an individual and in community of the regular gathering of the church in worship.
    • Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Peter and Gerri Scazzero
    • The Deeply Formed Life, Rich Villodas
  • Peace with Others - Living in right relationships as defined by the NT church. Personal peacemaking principles: confession and apology, repentance, restitution, and reconciliation.
    • Relational Wisdom 360, Ken and Collette Sande (see below)
    • The Peacemaker, Ken Sande
  • Peace with Creation - learning to steward our bodies, our environment, our money/wealth, and our politics under the Lordship of Jesus.
Habits to Develop + Tools
Our desires can be shaped by practices, which ultimately change what we love. This is important because what we love drives and motives us like nothing else.

Rituals are habit-forming acts that can bring about new desires and shape our loves.

There are personal and group practices to lean into for transformation into all that God has for us. Below are some we use:
  • Daily Practices (also taught in the "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality courses:  Developing a Daily Office")
    • Reading the Bible daily (or 5/7 days): The readings alone are available here: spiritandtruthpublishing.com/calendar/
    • Prayers and prayer lists - many prayer resources for pre-written, etc.
    • Silence and reflecting on your day at the end of the day
  • Weekly Practices
    • Sabbath - Rest, Play, Delight, Worship (ceasing your normal work aiming for a day)
    • Worship, in a committed way in a local church community
    • Small groups with other believers and the curious
    • Giving of your wealth regularly to support the church's teaching, mission, next generations, compassion, etc. ministries (weekly/monthly)
  • Monthly/semi-monthly
    • Active service around sharing Jesus' story with both words and compassion work
    • Justice: Jesus was always at work lifting up the humanity of all God's children and working for justice - Shalom is the healing of all aspects of life.
    • Pilgrimage, retreats

Relationships as a Believer

Christians are called to be a new humanity while honouring God-created diversity. How do we do this? We follow Jesus' teachings, having prayed to be filled with His Spirit. We call this peace-making.

Relational wisdom, in essence, is the desire and ability to live out Jesus’ two Great Commandments, namely, to love God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself (Matt. 22:37-39).

Behaviours to learn:
  • When to be assertive (vs. passive or aggressive)
  • How to apologize
  • Forgiveness (it's about you, not them, as much)
  • Restitution/Restorative Justice
  • Reconciliation (Forgiveness is NOT reconciliation - a COMMON misunderstanding)

Great resources:
Relational Wisdom 360 rw360.org/
  • https://rw360.org/getting-to-the-heart-of-conflict/
  • https://rw360.org/the-four-gs/
  • https://rw360.org/seven-as-of-a-biblical-confession/
  • https://rw360.org/biblical-forgiveness/
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Dr. Gregory A. Boyd, Lead Pastor Woodlands Hills Church (An Anabaptist Church affiliated with the Baptist General Conference network AKA "Converge Worldwide")
  • "Sure" Series: When we’re confident, we say we’re sure. When we sort of agree we say, “Yeah… sure.” When faced with the various worldviews and opinions in our society about spirituality and faith, many people say, “Sure. If it works for you, that’s great.”  But Jesus says he’s the only Truth. How can we hold that conviction in our culture of tolerance? How can we navigate the maze of truth with humility and confidence? Join us as we learn how to live at peace in a culture of ambiguity, and maintain a faith we can be sure of.
 
  • whchurch.org/sermon_series/sure/
    • Why the Bible?
    • Why God?
    • Why Jesus?
    • What is Faith?
    • What is Truth?
  • Helpful books by Dr. Boyd:
    • Letters From A Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity
    • The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, by Paul Rhodes Eddy (Author), Gregory A. Boyd (Author)
    • Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
    • Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
    • Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy

Bible + Theology Basics

Videos and Podcasts
The Bible Project: We are an education technology company that produces media to help people encounter the Bible like never before. Everything we make is available for free because of the generous support of people like you. Together, we’re helping people everywhere experience the unified story of Jesus.. Amazing app, videos, podcasts  all about the Bible, themes, books, etc. PODCAST HERE!

The Naked Bible Podcast  Mike Heiser is a scholar in the fields of biblical studies and the ancient Near East. He is the Scholar-in-Residence at Logos Bible Software. Mike earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He has also earned an M.A. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania (major fields: Ancient Israel and Egyptology).

Ask NT Wright Anything Welcome to the fortnightly podcast that connects you to NT (Tom) Wright’s thought and theology by allowing you to ask the questions.

Canadian Asian Missional Podcast A bi-monthly podcast discussing all things related to being Canadian and Asian and joining God in His mission to renew and restore all things in this world through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

How to Break Through the False Beliefs of Jesus Mythicism
From Atheist to Christian at Yale, Dr. Paul Lim
Going Deeper - Authors To Explore
  • Melissa Archer
    • I Was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day
  • Sam Chan
    • Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable, by Sam Chan and D. A. Carson
  • Simon Chan
    • Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up
  • Timothy Keller
    • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
  • C.S. Lewis
    • Mere Christianity
  • John Polkinghorne
    • Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
  • N.T. Wright
    • After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
    • Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
    • Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
    • Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
    • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

More Apologetics Resources
These are resources referred to us by members.

John Lennox

Does Science Require Faith?
What is the Conflict Between Materialism and Theism?
Is There Evidence of Something Beyond Nature?

Oxford mathematician John Lennox speaks at the Veritas Forum @ Harvard on the topic "Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational?" Lennox explains that naturalism is actually a self-contradictory belief system, such that science actually requires some faith. Full library available AD FREE at http://www.veritas.org/talks. Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!
 Os Guinness

The Forgotten Key to America's Current Crisis Fall 2017
Current Challenges of Humanity Talk at Wesmont College March 2018

Os Guinness is an English author and social critic who speaks about the forgotten key to America's current crisis at this chapel service. To learn more about Os Guinness and view books and resources that he has published, visit http://www.osguinness.com/

Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books with his latest book is Fool’s Talk – The Recovery of Christian Persuasion, which was published by InterVarsity Press in June, 2015. Os has spoken at dozens of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences on many issues, including religious freedom, across the world. He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics in Oxford, though he still lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington, DC, area.

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​V5W-3P8
Phone: 604-301-1006
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Gathered Worship at 10:30am Sunday
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Our building is fully accessible from the parking lot. We have an elevator entrance from the parking/ground level that services the Upper and Lower floors and a fully accessible washroom on the upper/main level.
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