SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2025
YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME: NO FISHING
~ SERVICE ORDER ~
YESTERDAY
LET HER GO
MESSAGE
WHAT AN AWESOME GOD
MIGHTY TO SAVE
THE WAY
ALL THINGS NEW
~ QUICK UPDATES ~
BAPTISMS & TMP HANGOUT
Sunday, July 6 at Pipers Lagoon @ 12:00pm, bring a lunch and join us as we celebrate some baptisms and a time to hang out together. Baptism is a powerful symbol and confirmation of stepping out of an old life and into a new God-centered way of living. Thinking about taking your own step of faith? Drop us an email at admin@themeetingplace.org
CRAM THE PRAM
Through June 15th, we're donating supplies for the Crossroads Pregnancy Centre in Nanaimo. Their biggest needs are diapers (all sizes, but especially newborn and sizes 4, 5, & 6), formula (unexpired), and baby wipes. Maternity and baby clothes (new & used), unopened baby toiletries, and most pieces of baby equipment can be donated as well. Most items can be used, but car seats & bassinets must be new, and strollers can be used if they're no older than 2017. Thanks, TMP!
TUESDAY MEN'S GROUP
Come hang out with us for an hour every Tuesday morning from 7-8am. Right now we're meeting on Zoom. Email men@themeetingplace.org to get the link. Can’t make it every week? That’s ok, join us when you can.
WOMEN'S COFFEE & CONNECTION
For May until the end of August, we're turning our Women's Bible Study into Women's Coffee & Connection. Drop in to McDonald's at 1835 Bowen Road in Nanaimo at 10:00 am on Wednesdays for some conversation and encouragement! We'll be returning to our Wednesday Bible study in September.
TMP CARE TEAM
When you, or someone you know are in need of practical, spiritual, or emotional help, please reach out to the TMP Care Team by emailing support@themeetingplace.org or by filling out the form online.
SUFFER FROM FOMO?
Do you have a Fear Of Missing Out on what's going on at TMP? Join our email update list--it's only one email per week, max, and it'll help keep you "in the know" around here. Sign up here.
DONATIONS RECEIVED
* The week of June 1, 2025 - $4,504.05
* The week of June 8, 2025 - $4,618.55
* Required weekly giving to meet budget - $6,379
Our Vision: to be people who are all about unleashing God's extravagant love on this city and around the world.
Our Mission is simple: to equip people to love God and love others - everyday, everywhere.
Sunday, July 6 at Pipers Lagoon @ 12:00pm, bring a lunch and join us as we celebrate some baptisms and a time to hang out together. Baptism is a powerful symbol and confirmation of stepping out of an old life and into a new God-centered way of living. Thinking about taking your own step of faith? Drop us an email at admin@themeetingplace.org
CRAM THE PRAM
Through June 15th, we're donating supplies for the Crossroads Pregnancy Centre in Nanaimo. Their biggest needs are diapers (all sizes, but especially newborn and sizes 4, 5, & 6), formula (unexpired), and baby wipes. Maternity and baby clothes (new & used), unopened baby toiletries, and most pieces of baby equipment can be donated as well. Most items can be used, but car seats & bassinets must be new, and strollers can be used if they're no older than 2017. Thanks, TMP!
TUESDAY MEN'S GROUP
Come hang out with us for an hour every Tuesday morning from 7-8am. Right now we're meeting on Zoom. Email men@themeetingplace.org to get the link. Can’t make it every week? That’s ok, join us when you can.
WOMEN'S COFFEE & CONNECTION
For May until the end of August, we're turning our Women's Bible Study into Women's Coffee & Connection. Drop in to McDonald's at 1835 Bowen Road in Nanaimo at 10:00 am on Wednesdays for some conversation and encouragement! We'll be returning to our Wednesday Bible study in September.
TMP CARE TEAM
When you, or someone you know are in need of practical, spiritual, or emotional help, please reach out to the TMP Care Team by emailing support@themeetingplace.org or by filling out the form online.
SUFFER FROM FOMO?
Do you have a Fear Of Missing Out on what's going on at TMP? Join our email update list--it's only one email per week, max, and it'll help keep you "in the know" around here. Sign up here.
DONATIONS RECEIVED
* The week of June 1, 2025 - $4,504.05
* The week of June 8, 2025 - $4,618.55
* Required weekly giving to meet budget - $6,379
Our Vision: to be people who are all about unleashing God's extravagant love on this city and around the world.
Our Mission is simple: to equip people to love God and love others - everyday, everywhere.
~ FROM THE MESSAGE ~
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. - Proverbs 4:23
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me… - Psalm 23:4
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. - 2 Corinthians 5:21
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. - Ephesians 1:4-7
He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. - Psalm 103:10-12
Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant (remnant meaning God’s people that were still around), overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! - Micah 7:18-19
And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. - Hebrews 8:12
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ…For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them…God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, 21
The day is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. - Jeremiah 31:31, 34
But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. - Romans 3:21-22
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me… - Psalm 23:4
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. - 2 Corinthians 5:21
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. - Ephesians 1:4-7
He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. - Psalm 103:10-12
Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant (remnant meaning God’s people that were still around), overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! - Micah 7:18-19
And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. - Hebrews 8:12
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ…For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them…God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, 21
The day is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. - Jeremiah 31:31, 34
But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. - Romans 3:21-22
~ COFFEE QUESTIONS ~
1. What bosses do you remember having? What was good about them? What was bad about them?
2. In the message, we looked at the “sea of forgetfulness”, which isn’t directly in the Bible but the idea comes from these Bible verses:
Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! (Micah 7:18-19)
And also this:
And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. (Hebrews 8:12)
What do you think about the idea that God chooses not to remember our sins?
3. Russ told a story he remembers hearing from his pastor:
God has sunk your sin in the depths of the ocean, in the sea of forgetfulness.
And God puts up a sign that says “No fishing”.
The problem is that Guilt comes back and tries to fish.
Do you feel like Guilt is trying to fish for mistakes and sin in your life? What’s happening there?
4. The practical application of this message is to say to guilt: No - you’re not the boss of me! and No - no fishing! Is that something you’re willing to try doing this week?
5. Darth Vader said to Lando Calrissian: I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further. God altered the deal with us, and now we have a new deal with God. The old deal was that our mistakes (our sins) were counted against us. The new deal is that when we confess our mistakes & sin to God, he forgives us. What do you think about this new deal? Do you believe it, or are you still considering it?
2. In the message, we looked at the “sea of forgetfulness”, which isn’t directly in the Bible but the idea comes from these Bible verses:
Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! (Micah 7:18-19)
And also this:
And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. (Hebrews 8:12)
What do you think about the idea that God chooses not to remember our sins?
3. Russ told a story he remembers hearing from his pastor:
God has sunk your sin in the depths of the ocean, in the sea of forgetfulness.
And God puts up a sign that says “No fishing”.
The problem is that Guilt comes back and tries to fish.
Do you feel like Guilt is trying to fish for mistakes and sin in your life? What’s happening there?
4. The practical application of this message is to say to guilt: No - you’re not the boss of me! and No - no fishing! Is that something you’re willing to try doing this week?
5. Darth Vader said to Lando Calrissian: I’m altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further. God altered the deal with us, and now we have a new deal with God. The old deal was that our mistakes (our sins) were counted against us. The new deal is that when we confess our mistakes & sin to God, he forgives us. What do you think about this new deal? Do you believe it, or are you still considering it?