June 24, 2012 at Dakota Community Church

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

Our aim in this service is to Glorify God by making much of Jesus and what He has done for us!

Today’s sermon is a continuation of our journey through the Book of Ephesians.

I trust that the Word of God will have the strong effect that the Lord desires upon you and that you will be able to see beyond any interference that may come me.

Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Ephesians 3:14-21; Romans 10:1; John 13:34-35; 1John 4:19-21; Galatians 5:13  

 

Sunday Morning Preview - June 24, 2012

This week we will get back down to work on the wonderful Letter of Paul to the Church at Ephesus.

If it were possible for us to hear your prayers, or to read the secret entries in your journal, (if you have one); we would discover a great deal about what matters to you.

We would understand your deepest desires and know your darkest fears because these are the things that a person prays about. We do not waste time in prayer concerning things of no consequence to us.

In this week's sermon, entitled; “Paul’s Powerful Prayer”, we will examine what “mattered” to the Apostle Paul, what he desired in prayer that is, for the precious flock of God in Ephesus.

Please preview the text using the link provided and then hopefully I’ll see you this Sunday!

Pastor Dan

Faith Alone by Martin Luther

Carry Each Other's Burdens

Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.Galatians 6:2

Everywhere love turns, it finds burdens to carry and ways to help. Love is the law of Christ. To love means to wish another person good from the heart. It means to seek what is best for the other person.

What if there were no one who made a mistake? What if no one fell? What if no one needed help? To whom would you show love? To whom could you show favor? Whose best could you seek? Love would not be able to exist if there were no people who made mistakes and sinned. The philosophers say that each of these people is the appropriate and adequate "object" of love or the "material" with which love has to work.

The sinful nature—or the kind of love that is really lust— wants others to wish it well and to give it what it desires. In other words, it seeks its own interests. The "material" it works with is a righteous, holy, godly, and good person. People who follow this sinful nature completely reverse God's teaching. They want others to bear their burdens, serve them, and carry them. These are the kind of people who despise having uneducated, useless, angry, foolish, troublesome, and gloomy people as their life companions. Instead, they look for friendly, charming, good-natured, quiet, and holy people. They want to live, not on earth, but in paradise; not among sinners, but among angels; not in the world, but in heaven. We should feel sorry for these people, because they are receiving their reward here on earth and possessing their heaven in this life.

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Grace, Freedom, Laughter! 

Sunday June 17, 2012 - Welcome to DCC

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

Happy Father's Day!

Our aim in this service is to Glorify God by making much of Jesus and what He has done for us!

The worship time is not for our entertainment, it is not a talent show, or a warm up act for the sermon. We set aside time to forget about ourselves, to focus our attention on God - and to worship Him. Please join in as He is worthy!

Today’s sermon concerns the direction our Church is going, how we are making disciples and how ultimately we are endeavoring to bring glory to God.

Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Matthew 28:16-20; 2 Corinthians 5:11-21; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; 1 Corinthians 14:21-33; Luke 14:1-24; James 2:14-17; Isaiah 55:2; Luke 12:32-34; Matthew 19:21; Mark 8:34-36; Matthew 25:41-46; Galatians 2:1-10        

Sunday Morning Preview - June 10/12

Please join me at Dakota this Sunday morning for the usual great time of corporate worship which, this week, will include partaking of communion together.

My sermon is entitled “Where Our Church is Going” and is designed to clarify in all of our minds the specific ways that we believe the Lord is leading us as a community at this time. A few of the points I plan to cover include:

• When we gather: The purpose of the Sunday meeting
• After the equipping: Our Jerusalem, the highways and byways of Winnipeg
• Putting the “world” in our worldview: Taking the gospel and experiencing life outside the North American bubble.

I hope to see you Sunday!

Pastor Dan

Sunday June 3, 2012

Welcome to DCC!

 

This morning our College and Career and Youth Leader Joel Cormie will be bringing the gospel.

Enjoy the worship and fellowship and thanks for joining us!

 

Pastor Dan

Sunday Morning - May 6, 2012

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

Our aim in this service is to Glorify God by making much of Jesus and what He has done for us!

The worship time is not for your entertainment, it is not a talent show, or a warm up act for the sermon. We set aside time to forget about ourselves, to focus our attention on God - and to worship Him. Please join in as… He is worthy!

Today’s sermon comes from Ephesians 3:1-12 and is entitled “Paul’s Heart”.

Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Ephesians 3:1-12; Acts 21:37 - 22:22; Acts 11:1-18; Genesis 18:18; Psalm 2:1-8; Isaiah 49:6; Job 9:2-12

April 29, 2012 at Dakota Community Church

I hope you will join me this Sunday morning as we turn our attention back to the book of Ephesians, where we will likely be for the next few months if all goes as planned.

Paul has just finished laying out (In Chapter 2) the former alienation felt by the Gentile nations in their separation from God and from the chosen nation of Israel. He has made clear that in Christ this separation has ended and now, just as he prepares to pray for the Ephesian believers he pauses to reveal his unique authority and calling to do so.

This Sunday morning we will examine Paul’s heart as he reveals it to us and to the Church at Ephesus in this brief passage.

What exactly has God made known to Paul? How has this revelation affected his life? What unique calling has he received and what does this message mean for the Church in Ephesus and for the Church of Christ throughout time?

Hockey Love Hurts

Easter Sunday

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

Christ is Risen! - Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Matthew 28:1-7; Romans 1:1-4; Matthew 16:21; Colossians 1:15-23; Romans 4:23-25; John 11:25-26; 1 Corinthians 15:12-19; 1 Corinthians 15: 20-23

Sunday April 1, 2012

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

We are a Christ centred, cross focused community of believers united by the good news of salvation by grace through faith!

This morning we are celebrating Palm Sunday.

Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Luke 19:28-44; Isaiah 11:1-3; John 18:36-38; Luke 24:13-21; Psalm 113:2-3; Romans 1:18-25; Luke 18:31-33   

 

Palm Sunday at Dakota

A day of joy and victory, the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, voices shout “Hosanna” and “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” 

Palm Sunday is a day that celebrates great insight - the King had arrived after all and the disciples rightly rejoiced in this knowledge - but this was also a day of great misunderstanding. Only Jesus himself would have had any idea of the events that were about to unfold; of just how this King would be crowned and how He would ultimately rise to take His throne. 

I hope you will join me this Sunday morning as we consider a few of the contrasts that are presented to us in Luke’s account of the day we have come to celebrate as Palm Sunday. 

On the one hand; amazing insight, worshipful acceptance, and tearful mercy. 

On the other; great misunderstanding, murderous rejection, and absolute authority!

Our Condition

But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."

Faith in Christ or death in our sins. 

Grace, Freedom, Laughter! 

The "Required" Work

"Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God has placed his seal of approval."

Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"

Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." - John 6:27-29

Grace, Freedom, Laughter! 

The Freedom I Need

I do not need easing of circumstance, relief from difficulty, and distance from pain and suffering in order to be free. The freedom Jesus has secured for me is freedom from bitterness, anger, fear, resentment, self-pity, offense, and hopelessness in the crucible of present pain and suffering; it is freedom from my burdensome sense of "I deserve better," the encumbrance of entitlement. Only the gospel can free us from the enslaving pressure to defend ourselves. That is real freedom - God sized freedom! (Tullian Tchividjian -slight paraphrase)

Grace, Freedom, Laughter! 

Contentment

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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This Sunday at DCC (Mar. 11, 2012)

This Sunday morning we will share communion before continuing our journey through the Old Testament Book of Judges. You may wish to review the Series opening sermon here and/or week 2 here.

The passage we are looking at this week (Judges 3:1-11) reveals that God does not defeat some of Israel’s enemies in the Promised Land in order to teach and test His people. 

Does that rub anyone else the wrong way taken at face value? Keep in mind the terrible acts of war that occurred as a result of these “lessons and tests”; how is God just if this is true? For that matter - how is God good, and right, and holy, and perfect, and our loving heavenly Father; if He allows lessons and tests such as these?

One common response to these types of difficult biblical passages is to say that the author’s humanity entered into the picture as he wrote - in other words, it seemed to the author that God “did” or “allowed” this - but he was mistakenly writing from a fallen human perspective that is ultimately incorrect. We’ll see why that response is way off base and we’ll look at how to reconcile our theology to tough passages like this, rather than trying to bend the scripture to fit our understanding!

The plan now is to finish up the life of the first judge: Othniel and hopefully to get a good portion of the life of the left-handed (2nd) judge - Ehud - completed as well! Hope to see you 1 hour earlier (but still) Sunday at 10:30

March 4, 2012

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

We are a Christ centred, cross focused community of believers united by the good news of salvation by grace through faith!

This morning we are continuing our study in the Book of Judges with a look at the first Judge - Othniel! Enjoy the service and feel free to follow along in the scriptures using the links below.

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Judges 3:1-11; Judges 1:28; Matthew 12:14-21; Hebrews 13:8; 2 Timothy 3:10-17; Genesis 6:5-6; Jeremiah 17:9; Judges 3:7-11; 2 Timothy 3:1-5   

This Sunday at DCC

This Sunday morning we are going to resume our journey through the Old Testament Book of Judges.

 

The Book covers a chaotic period in Israel's history between the years 1380 and 1050 B.C. Under Joshua's leadership, Israel had conquered and occupied the land of Canaan, but extensive areas hadn't yet passed into the hands of the individual tribes.

Over time the following pattern, known as the “Cycle of Sin”, emerged: Israel did evil - GOD delivered them into the hands of various oppressors - the people cried out to the LORD for help - a judge brought God’s deliverance. This Sunday morning the plan is to over the life of the first judge: Othniel and if there is time the 2nd - Ehud.

The passage we are looking at this week indicates that God does not defeat some enemies in order to teach and test His people. Is that right? If so is God just in doing that and how is that possible?

Hope to see you Sunday - 230 Provencher Blvd (Downstairs)

Sunday February 26, 2012

Welcome to Dakota Community Church

Grace, Freedom, Laughter

We are a Christ centred, cross focused community of believers united by the good news of salvation by grace through faith!

We have seen the powerful transformative effect the gospel has on every individual who believes but now, in Part 3 of “Unity of the Body”; we are reminded that individuals do not live in lonely isolation. The gospel impacts and transforms whole communities as it seizes the hearts and minds of those it encounters!

Scripture for today’s sermon:

Ephesians 2:11-22; Psalm 145:1-2; Judges 8:22-23; Genesis 12:1-3; Luke 4:24-30; Luke 7:1-10; Matthew 15:21-28; Ephesians 2:14-15; Galatians 6:12-16; Hebrews 8:6-7; Titus 3:4-7; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17; Luke 23:44-46