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DAMNATION / SALVATION Film Series

January 22, 2018 By rebeccacalhoun

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Join the Arts Ministry on the third Thursday (except for February when we’ll reschedule to the Fourth Thursday) of every month in 2018.

The film series will focus on the theme of Damnation / Salvation as explored through various cinematic genres.  The series will be geared toward adults, though the majority of the films are appropriate for all ages and none would be “inappropriate” for even the modestly mature young adult.  The majority are acclaimed, often Oscar-winning classics  and the others are (in the view of our host) overlooked gems.
Public event, free.  Popcorn Provided. Invite friends!
TIME 7:00 – 10:00 pm
LOCATION Resurrection Brooklyn – Jay Street Office

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Hope for the New Year

January 18, 2018 By wpengine

Saint George slaying a dragon.

Like most people, I start the new year with a great deal of hope. Personally, I hope my oldest daughter gets into college somewhere…anywhere (Just kidding, Flannery. You will!). Globally, we hope that conflict with North Korea can be avoided. Nationally, we hope the new tax code will stimulate economic growth while enabling us to provide for those who live at risk in our society. Culturally, (and I know I’m speaking for all of us) we hope the third season of Stranger Things isn’t a complete train wreck.

But when we use the word “hope” we often cross our fingers and knock on wood:

 

  • “I hope the economy continues to grow this year.
  • “I hope the President knows what he’s doing.”
  • “I hope it snows tonight so I don’t have to take that test.”

Our hoping is sometimes indistinguishable from wishful thinking.

The biblical definition of hope is more concrete.

  • Hope is “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (Heb 6:19)
  • Hope is “stored up for you in heaven (Col. 1:5)
  • Zechariah says all those who long for Messiah are “prisoners of hope” (Zech 9:12)
  • Hope in the Bible is certainty in a future reality. It is a steadfast confidence that God will do exactly what God has promised to do. Christians celebrate the new year in Advent, not January, because our hope rests in the coming of Jesus, the one who was promised in ages past and now fulfills our deepest longings.

As we begin this new year, consider what you’ve set your hopes on. Are you hoping for a new job? A smaller waist? A new relationship? Better behaved children (or spouse)? These may be fine desires, and God may grant them to you, but you must distinguish them from what God has explicitly promised. So often we put our highest hopes in things that God has never promised and we get angry when we don’t get them. So let me encourage you to take some time and reflect on those things that God has actually promised to accomplish in Jesus. Put your hope in the forgiveness of sins, in the reconciliation of enemies, in the restoration of broken things, in people coming to faith, in the growth of the church—and expect to see them. Be certain that when God promises salvation he is already making it happen in the lives of individuals, families, cities and the entire world. 2018 is going to be a great year—and that’s a promise.
In Christ,
Matt Brown
Senior Pastor

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Christmas in the City

November 29, 2017 By rebeccacalhoun

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Share the joy of Christmas! Join us and bring your friends and neighbors to Christmas in the City, Resurrection Brooklyn’s annual special gathering in which we celebrate Christmas through song and story. The program will be followed by a time of food and drinks. Admission is free and childcare will be provided! We hope to see you there.

Pick up some invite cards after church at the welcome table to share with anyone you’d like to invite, or hang it on your refrigerator as a reminder.

This year we will take up a special offering with all proceeds benefiting our Disaster Relief efforts. In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes this year, please consider how you might be able to give to those in need. For more information on how to help hurricane victims, click here.

 

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Preparing for Advent

November 28, 2017 By rebeccacalhoun

By Matt Brown

pexels-photo-383646Time is something we manage, waste, kill and save. I speak as though it belongs to me and yields to my will, but time marches on, deaf to my demands, dragging me behind. Even when I stay on my feet, I am only keeping pace, like a child holding the bridle of a racehorse. It feels like time is managing, wasting and killing me. I’m the one in need of saving. And that’s why I’m looking forward to Advent.

Advent is the beginning of a new liturgical year, a season of anticipation and hope in which we remind ourselves that time neither belongs to us nor has power over us. Rather, time belongs to God and God is working in time to restore all things. Galatians 4 says, “When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.” Time is not our master, but the medium of God’s salvific work. And God’s work is not yet done.
Advent is a season in which we remember the birth of Jesus and hope for his certain return, but it is also a reminder that we still live in the fullness of time and God is still at work, reconciling all things through Jesus. So as we enter another Advent season, let me encourage you not to manage, but to enjoy, this time. Make an advent wreath on Sunday, use our advent guides with your family or your roommates or on your own, join us for Christmas in the City, sing lots of Christmas songs and as you do these things pray for eyes of faith to see how Jesus is using this time in your life to redeem you for himself.

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Advent Guides 2017-2018

November 7, 2017 By rebeccacalhoun

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To download this year’s Advent guide click here.

In addition to the Advent guide, we’ve also created a Jesse Tree to accompany your Advent devotions. The Advent Guide and the Jesse Tree Pamphlet could be used together or independently. Regardless, we hope this pamphlet and the ornaments help you enter the joy of Advent.

Download the Jesse Tree and learn more about its tradition by clicking the links below.

JesseTree Days 1-8

JesseTree Days 9-14

JesseTree Days 15-20

JesseTree_Days 21-25

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