Our current teaching series is entitled: “Our Life”. We want to take four week’s to develop a sense of who we are at The Freeway, and what we are going to be about as a community this year. Here’s how each week will shake out:

Week 1: “Our Life: Unearthed” – A reflection on where we’ve been as a community. Who are we? What are the narratives that have shaped us over the years, especially the past year or so?

Week 2: “Our Life: Planted” – An exploration of our address (postal code / context / neighbourhood). Why are we here in this neighbourhood? What are we trying to do? Why does / will it matter?

Week 3: “Our Life: Cultivated” – An exploration of our intention to form our lives together as a community: spiritually, relationally, missionally. What will we commit (covenant) to together?

Week 4: “Our Life: Rooted” – A proposal of what sustainable missionality may look for us. How do we take who we’ve been and who we are and follow Jesus into the future as a community this year?

On Sunday night we had a great worship gathering as part of our current Advent series. This was week 3 of Advent and we engaged the topic of “celebration.” Good times.

You can see photos here.

Here’s the video we showed on Sunday night at the worship gathering:

Sundays at 6 pm.

Last night at our worship gathering we finished up our series on Ecclesiastes… six weeks in an excellent and thought-provoking book. Thanks to all of those who led, taught, and planned the various aspects of the gatherings for the past six weeks. This was really the first series which was planned by the recently formed spiritual formation hub. Great job, you guys! The hub works really well together… very creative group.

Here are the title images we used for each week in the Ecclesiastes series. Feel free to use them however you want. If you want a larger version or the Photoshop (editable) version drop us a line:

This is a video we created of the scripture passage from tonight’s worship gathering based on Ecclesiastes 3:

Our focus was on two main things: 1) The rhythm of life, and 2) “eternity in our hearts.” Here is the image we used for the gathering:

At our worship gatherings, we are currently in the midst of a teaching series based on the book of Ecclesiates. The first week (this past Sunday) was entitled “Meaningless.” We explored the beginning of this famous “memoir” of King Solomon to see what it might say to us today about our culture, our lives, and the eternal. Is everything meaningless, fleeting, futile? Should have been there, I guess.

I will post some images, themes, and notes about the upcoming weeks soon.

August’s teaching series is called “Your Own Personal Jesus.”

We all have various images of Jesus. Some are right and some are wrong. For the month of August we will look at four common misconcepted images people have of Jesus and try to compare these with the Jesus we actually read about in the Scriptures:

• “Spooky Jesus” who sort of hovers above us all and is more divine than human, and doesn’t understand the human struggle.
• “Sunday School Jesus” who doesn’t really answer questions of hardship or suffering but seems basic, individualized, plastic (or flannel) and neat.
• “Middle-Class Jesus” who answers all our prayers for safety, comfort and success, and helps us to “do well” in life.
• “Buddy Jesus” who doesn’t talk about your sin and has no scars, instead he gives you a wink and a thumbs up.

The title for our current teaching series for the month of July, “Renovation of the Heart,” is based on the title (but not content) of a book written by Dallas Willard. This series will allow us to examine spiritual formation… and by spiritual formation, we mean the stuff that converges on the inside that makes you – you.

Four different aspects of spiritual formation will be examined: the heart (or gut) as guide, character building (or eliminating pollution), prayer as dialogue (us talking) & the need for story (God talking).

Here’s the video from last night’s gathering:

Here’s the video from the worship gathering this week:

For the month of June in our worship gatherings our theme is “this beautiful mess”. We will explore what it means to be part of this church community, in this neighbourhood, in this city, at this time.

This will be a very cool series as pretty much all of the people doing the speaking/teaching are pretty new to it. For most, this will be their first or second attempt at speaking in this way. We’re excited about what they will have to say… and about the way that the other elements (inter-actives, music, creative segments, etc.) of the gatherings tie in to the weekly theme and help create meaningful experiences.

June 7th: We all matter – Jeanette Eby
June 14th: We all pursue the Kingdom – ???
June 21st: We all connect and belong – Matt Thompson
June 28th: We all serve – Susan Neudorf

You won’t want to miss one week.

Here’s the video we showed in the worship gathering last night of PS22 in New York City:

http://ps22chorus.blogspot.com for their story.

Last night (April 19, 2009) was week one of our microcosm series at The Freeway. Anjanette and the gang did a great job of leading us in musical worship (see/hear a short snippet here), Robin did a great job of communicating The Freeway’s ideas about connecting with culture (read some notes of his message here), and there was some really good discussion and community time.

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Here is a snippet from our worship experience on Sunday, April 19th. Very cool that you can hear people singing along with the band.