March 23rd: Lent #3 @ MCBC…

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Hey church!

I hope everyone is continuing to be and do less…for more. I pray everyone had a good week of fasting, praying and almsgiving.

For this coming Lent service, all I want you to do is simple: read, re-read, re-re-read 2 Tim 1:7-10 and repeat.

Worship ready, heart ready:

Your glory

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Exposed by His blood,
Rici
Associate Pastor – English-Speaking Congregation
Montreal Chinese Baptist Church
3567 St. Urbain st.
Montreal, QC,
H2X 2N6

Office: 514.845.6531
Fax: 514.845.8636

March 16th: Lent Sunday #2, Less is More @ MCBC

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Hey church!

Last Sunday we started our current series on Lent. Lent is the forty-day period before Easter. It is a time to revisiting some ancient church practices to renew our faith and rekindle our relationship with Jesus Christ. Historically, Lent has been a time for prayer of repentance, fasting, and giving to the poor (aka almsgiving)[1]

So this Lent season we want to renew our faith and rekindle our relationship in the spirit of Less is More. Doing less and gaining more. Less complexity and more simplicity. Learning and doing ‘what is important.” Learning to be less and let God be more. Taking less room and letting God take more room.

Last week we talked about fasting. This week we talk about almsgiving. This is not another sermon on tithes and offering but learning to have less in our hands and let the Kingdom and the poor have more.

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[1] Dr. Kwasi Kena

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Exposed by His blood,
Rici
Associate Pastor – English-Speaking Congregation
Montreal Chinese Baptist Church
3567 St. Urbain st.
Montreal, QC,
H2X 2N6

Office: 514.845.6531
Fax: 514.845.8636

March 9th: Lent starts this Sunday at MCBC…

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Hey church!!

This coming Sunday we are starting the season of spiritual preparation preceding Easter. This season is called Lent.

“Lent traditionally is the forty-day period before Resurrection Day (Easter). The ancient church practices during Lent were meant to renew the believers' faith and rekindle their special relationship with Jesus Christ. Historically, Lent has been a time of penitent prayer, fasting, and almsgiving (giving to the poor).” (Dr. Kwasi Kena. http://wesleyconnectonline.com/less-equals-more-doing-gods-math-during-lent-dr-kwasi-kena/)

So come ready for another Lent season, 2014 edition! Although this is only the 2nd year that we officially celebrate Lent as a congregation, this year we have great plans to make Lent less but at the same time sooo much more! Hope to see many of you this Sunday and start this great season together in worship and community.

"Lent up" for worship!

—
Exposed by His blood,
Rici
Associate Pastor – English-Speaking Congregation
Montreal Chinese Baptist Church
3567 St. Urbain st.
Montreal, QC,
H2X 2N6

Office: 514.845.6531
Fax: 514.845.8636