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Forbes is a community that wholeheartedly affirms God’s Word, the Bible, as our guiding truth for faith and life. Our heartfelt prayer is for God’s strength to help us show His unlimited love through Jesus Christ, as we respond to our calling to reach in and reach out, empowered by the Holy Spirit. Jesus founded our church as a family, a loving community, to support one another in unity and reflect His love to the world on our journey home.
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HOLY WEEK GATHERINGS AT A GLANCE!
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EASTERTIDE SERIES:
FORMED BY THE RISEN CHRIST:
A Community Shaped for God’s Mission.
In the weeks after Easter, Scripture shows what happens when the risen Jesus meets His people. Fear is met with peace, doubt with grace, hunger with fellowship, and confusion with renewed calling. We sometimes reduce Easter to only the announcement that Jesus is alive. But it is also the beginning of a people reshaped by His resurrection.
Through the Easter season, we will follow how the risen Christ forms His church:
1. The Dawn of New Creation.
2. Peace for Fearful Hearts.
3. Eyes Opened on the Way.
4. The Shepherd who Forms His Flock.
5. A Vision of Christ in Suffering.
6. Hope in a Hostile World.
7. Kept in God’s Care.
8. Spirit‑Breathed Life for God’s Mission.
Wherever you find yourself this Easter season: joyful or weary, confident or uncertain, may you encounter the risen Christ who still forms His people today. Amen!
Come, let us be re-formed by the risen Christ.
EPIPHANY sermon series: We Have Seen the Light.
We are all shaped by traditions, rituals, and calendars, which are often given to us by others, such as, our culture, province, and federal (country). The goal of the traditions is to turn us into good citizens. This is true in Canada as it is true elsewhere.
In our world which is so influenced by globalization and liberalization, there is a lot of counterculture on different scales. The Church of Christ has also been an active player in counterculture since its founding in the first century AD. For example, the Church created a different calendar that allows believers to focus on different sets of memories other than the ones given by others.
The goal of the counter traditions was to form people into citizens of God’s Kingdom. At the heart of this agenda is the life of Jesus Christ: His birth, his passion, and his resurrection.
Epiphany is one of the traditions the Church created in its calendar to counter-culture. The word epiphany is not in the Bible. It comes from a Greek word meaning “manifestation or appearance.” In Church history, Epiphany is closely associated with the revelation of Christ to the Magi. So, Christ was not only revealed to the Jews but to non-Jews, too.
Also, Epiphany gets us past seeing a cute baby in the manger because the incarnation (God became flesh) involves more than the events of Christmas. Epiphany ushers a vision of God’s glory to the nations of the world.
Therefore, in January and February, we will be looking at the sermon series We Have Seen the Light. The series admonishes that since we have experienced Christ’s Light, thereby believing in Christ, we must seize every opportunity to shine Christ’s Light.
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