Light of the World is this Sunday!

Christmas in the City: Advent is Here

For advent this year, we are doing a series going through Zechariah called "Christmas in the City". After four years, our beloved stump is being retired as our advent wreath, to be replaced by something which befits our current city-centric focus during Advent and beyond. This pic is a sneak preview!

Forged to Follow Series Overview

Happy Friday! Here is an overview of our 8-week series on discipleship, which we've divided into two parts (The Disciple's Vision and the Disciples' Formation).

The Disciple’s Vision:
Sept. 27 // Forged in Spiritual Practice // Luke 18:1-14
Oct. 4 // Forged for Evangelism // Acts 8:26-40
Oct. 11 // Thanksgiving Potluck Communion
Oct. 18 // Forged for Kingdom Mission // Luke 4:16-21; 31-44

The Disciples’ Formation:
Oct. 25 // Forged by Learning and Doing // Matthew 28:16-20
Nov. 1 // Forged by the Mentoring Cycle: The Mentoring Process // John 14:13-31
Nov. 8 // Forged by the Mentoring Cycle: Healing Mistakes // John 21:15-19
Nov. 15 // Forged by the Sacraments // Romans 6:1-5, 1 Corinthians 11:17-26

New Series Sunday | Forged to Follow

Photo by: Armin Hanisch

This Sunday- September 13 | Commissioning

This Sunday, we're going to have an evening dedicated to commissioning the TILT community to their vocation. We'll be using a model based on a book called "Faith Goes To Work". It relates our vocation to God's character and work in this world. As the Church, we are the Body of Christ, and so we thought it most suitable that we commission one another based on how we reflect God's character in our work.

Read the summary through and reflect upon which type of work in which God has placed you to prepare for Sunday night Sept 13.

Stations from Sunday Night

We finished our "Shorts" series this sunday by doing stations for 2nd Peter.
Check the 'booklet' out of the stations under the teaching blog here.

Please continue to pray

Please continue to pray for some of the requests from Sunday night. You can find them here on the community boards.

Upcoming Four-Week Series!

We'll start a new series next Sunday, called "Shorts: the New Testament letters that get left out on the line".

Reminder | BBQ Communion Sunday!

Just a quick reminder that Sunday is BBQ Communion - in other words, we'll be sharing a meal over the grill and communion as a community. Hopefully we will be outside. We'll provide meat and buns, and if you can bring a salad, dessert or beverages, that would be superb. If not, don't worry about it and just come! If you have specific preferences meat-wise, feel free to bring your own.

See you Sunday!

Sunday Night's Meditation

If you are interested in watching the meditation video from Sunday night again, check it out here on the TILT art blog.

You can always view prayers done at TILT under the TILT daily blog, such as this one from a couple of weeks ago on Colossians 2.

I hope to catch up on teachings...soon...

Colossians

We have begun our series on Colossians!
This week we'll be reading Colossians 1:15-23.

Urgent Prayer Request!

As many of you know, Aindrea and Hannah have left for Uganda and have arrived safely. However, Aindrea has fallen ill. Please pray for her. Read Hannah's update on the community prayer board here.

Upcoming Sundays!

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Sunday is BBQ Communion - in other words, we'll be sharing a meal over the grill and communion as a community. Hopefully we will be outside. We'll provide meat and buns, and if you can bring a salad, dessert or beverages, that would be superb. If not, don't worry about it and just come! If you have specific preferences meat-wise, feel free to bring your own.

TILT Mission

We recently spent two Sunday evenings expanding upon and putting 'flesh' on the mission statement which had been drafted over the last few months. If you'd like to check out our mission statement, read it here.

New SERIES! TONIGHT!

Sunday Night | WHERE ARE WE GOING?!

About three months ago, the TILT leadership team gathered together to seek God's direction for us as a community. Since that time, we've been drafting a statement that speaks to who we are and where we are headed.

On Sunday night, when we gather together, we will be exploring this statement together and trying to put "flesh" on it - i.e. what will this look like for us as a community?

The statement is as follows!
TILT will serve our city by fostering a growing, authentic, diverse community that will holistically encounter the mystery and healing of God together through worship and mission.

Easter Celebration

Thanks for a wonderful Easter gathering. Christ is Risen! May your week be filled with hope and renewal.

Also, let us know how your lenten journeys were! Did God reveal anything to you through your fasting? Check out the Lent board here.

EASTER SUNDAY

Easter Sunday Celebration!

Join us at 6:30 am for a Sunrise Celebration followed by a light breakfast. Spring Garden's morning gathering will happen at 10:00 am and our TILT "Stories of Life" will be at 6:30 pm.

On Sunday night, we'll be sharing with each other stories from our own lives where we have seen God alive, at work. Or it could be a new way God has revealed himself to you. Or perhaps you see the Resurrection story in a new light this year. We'd like those stories to be heard!

Sunday | STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Each year on Palm Sunday, we gather together to journey with Jesus through the final moments of his life. This week, our stations will focus on the last week of Jesus' life. Come and invite for your friends!

Oops!!

Our apologies for the gooey frozen gluten-free bread on Sunday evening for communion! I (Scott) take full responsibility for not taking the bread out of the freezer early enough in the day and forgetting to check on it...

Sunday Sampler

Tonight, Gene will be continuing our series "Famous Last Words". He'll be talking about "Living in the World", from John 13:36-38; 15:16-16:4; 16:31-33.

Sunday Sampler | Love for Each Other

Tonight, we continue our series "Famous Last Words". Our Scripture focus will be from these three passages:

John 13
12 After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, “Do you understand what I was doing? 13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am. 14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. 15 I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you. 16 I tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the one who sends the message. 17 Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

33 Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

John 15
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

What's Goin' On | March 4

Sunday Sampler: This Sunday's text is a long one, so read it on Bible Gateway here. The passages are John 14:5-14 and 15:1-17.

Doing anything for Lent? Share your Lenten journey here!

Teachings are up to date: Just click here.

New Series Sunday!

Ash Wednesday this Wednesday | The start of Lent...

The season of lent is upon us, beginning on Wednesday! We've created a forum where we can share our journeys to the cross - talking about what we have given up, perhaps why, what that is breaking us free from and how we are drawing closer to God through it.
Check out the forum here.

Typically, the Sabbath day is a day 'off' from whatever you are fasting from throughout Lent. If you consider Sunday your Sabbath, we would love to provide whatever you are fasting from! For example, if you are fasting from chocolate for Lent, it would be great to have chocolate for snacks at TILT for your Sabbath enjoyment! So, add a thread on the forum or let us know at TILT!

Sunday Sampler | Mark 5:1-20

Scott will be teaching on this passage on Sunday:

1 So they arrived at the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gerasenes. 2 When Jesus climbed out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil[b] spirit came out from a cemetery to meet him. 3 This man lived among the burial caves and could no longer be restrained, even with a chain. 4 Whenever he was put into chains and shackles—as he often was—he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Day and night he wandered among the burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones.

6 When Jesus was still some distance away, the man saw him, ran to meet him, and bowed low before him. 7 With a shriek, he screamed, “Why are you interfering with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In the name of God, I beg you, don’t torture me!” 8 For Jesus had already said to the spirit, “Come out of the man, you evil spirit.”

9 Then Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”

And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man.” 10 Then the evil spirits begged him again and again not to send them to some distant place.

11 There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside nearby. 12 “Send us into those pigs,” the spirits begged. “Let us enter them.”

13 So Jesus gave them permission. The evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of 2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.

14 The herdsmen fled to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran. People rushed out to see what had happened. 15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid. 16 Then those who had seen what happened told the others about the demon-possessed man and the pigs. 17 And the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone.

18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon possessed begged to go with him. 19 But Jesus said, “No, go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been.” 20 So the man started off to visit the Ten Towns[c] of that region and began to proclaim the great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed at what he told them.

Website Resources

Check out the TILT Calendar by scrolling down on this homepage and clicking on the "TILT Calendar" link on the right side. (Or just click on TILT Calendar here)

You'll see the weekly schedule for who's doing TILT kids and who's on snack. If you sign up, now you can check when you forget what week you signed up for! And if you see a ?? by TILT snack, that means it's open for someone to provide. If you'd like to provide a snack on a certain date, just email tilt.toronto @ gmail.com or add a posting to the community boards (see community boards at the top right there? Scroll over it and then click on 'general) or click here.

We're all caught up! | Teaching

It's true. It's true. Teachings are back up and running! You can listen to the sermons from this series here, on the teaching blog.

You can always subscribe to the TILT Podcast as well!

Photo by: Nate Brelsford

Prayer | Not sure where to start?

When it comes to prayer, are you not sure where to start?

If you feel like you don't know how to pray, check out some of the prayers we've engaged in at TILT under the daily here.

If you feel like you don't know who to pray for, check out the community prayer board here.

Illustration by: Mariola Streim

Sunday Sampler | Mark 7:24-30

Then Jesus left Galilee and went north to the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know which house he was staying in, but he couldn’t keep it a secret. Right away a woman who had heard about him came and fell at his feet. Her little girl was possessed by an evil spirit, and she begged him to cast out the demon from her daughter.

Since she was a Gentile, born in Syrian Phoenicia, Jesus told her, “First I should feed the children—my own family, the Jews. It isn’t right to take food from the children and throw it to the dogs.”

She replied, “That’s true, Lord, but even the dogs under the table are allowed to eat the scraps from the children’s plates.”

“Good answer!” he said. “Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.” And when she arrived home, she found her little girl lying quietly in bed, and the demon was gone.

Sunday Night | Bill H | Luke 7

36Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went to the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. 37When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, 38and as she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.

39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner."

40Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
"Tell me, teacher," he said.

41"Two men owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,[a] and the other fifty. 42Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?"

43Simon replied, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled."
"You have judged correctly," Jesus said.

44Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little."

48Then Jesus said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."

49The other guests began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"

50Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."

Prayer from last Sunday

Hey,

Check out the prayer liturgy from last Sunday here under the Daily.

This Sunday | Mark | Luke 19

Luke 19 - Jesus and Zacchaeus

Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way.

5 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.”

6 Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. 7 But the people were displeased. “He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,” they grumbled.

8 Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, “I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!”

9 Jesus responded, “Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”

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A New Series Begins!

Original photo by: Lukáš Patkaň

Communion Potluck Tomorrow!

This Sunday at TILT we are having our TILT communion potluck! As usual we are meeting at 6:30pm downstairs in the multipurpose room.

We don't assign food by name or anything like that, so if you are able to bring anything, please do. However, if you don't have time/money/whatever to prepare anything, don't worry about it! We always make extra and often those who need to take food home, we send some with them.

If you are able to come a bit earlier that evening to help set up (5:30pm onwards), that'd be great. If not, just come hungry :)

If you haven't been at a communion potluck before, a little background...the early Christian church celebrated communion over an entire meal, rather than just as part of a worship gathering. So, that is what we are doing at TILT - framing a meal together through the celebration of communion, so that the entire meal is communion.

Everyone is welcome -see you then!