New Series Starts Sunday!

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

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".

Colossians

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

Upcoming Sundays!

MAY 31	JUNE 7
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.

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 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!

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.

New Series Sunday!

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."

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!

Christmas Eve

Please note: the Multi-Purpose Room is downstairs in the church.