First of all, I wanted to reiterate to Andy how awesome this Kingdom teaching has been. I was pondering Andy’s talk tonight and thinking specifically about how Jesus is the ‘Prince of Peace’ (could there be a better title than that?) despite the fact that he is declaring war on Satan and his powers and principalities that oppress and enslave. It occurred to me that Jesus’ peace is a different type of peace than we would generally imagine. Rather than a peace of comfort, of riches, of ease, our Christ promises us a peace more like that of the martyr.

Hello All,

Two things have been coming back to me again and again as I have prayed and lived these last few weeks: the importance of anticipation and celebration. I have been thinking a lot about our close connection to the Jewish faith and about how the simple church is moving in a direction that reminds me of our Jewish ancestors.

Ponder this excerpt from David Toole’s amazing book Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: “For 2000 years now, on the eve of our greatest holiday, my [Jewish] ancestors have repeated this sentence: ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’ That sentence preserved them; that sentence is the vertical axis of their experience of the world and their place in it; that sentence is an unavoidable part of our identity.” I love the sense of anticipation I am feeling in the simple church family. I am feeling/praying: "Next year in Vancouver."