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

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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.