Welcome to Immanuel Community Church…
… where we encourage, equip, enfold and engage all people to reach out and serve with the transforming love of Jesus.
Sunday services
@ 10 AM
May 3, 2026
The Seven Deadly Sins & The Seven Life-Giving Virtues
"GREED and GENEROSITY"
Pastor Joe Abbey- Colborne
If Pride is an over-inflated view of ourselves (and Shame; an under-inflated view). And if Envy is a skewed and biases vision of others, then what is Greed?
And what does it do to us?
In our world, we're constantly prodded to buy more stuff; bombarded with advertising promoting the things we "need", with the notion that our lives would be better, (that we would be better), if we only had more.
Marketers estimate the average person is exposed to over 5000 ads a day.
We have unprecedented access to goods from all over the world, and Canadians carry increasing debt every year. Our relationship to money, and the things it buys, is changing. But is money also changing us?
We work to manage our wealth, yet our attitude toward money has unseen effects that shape our priorities & values, our hearts & minds; and ultimately, our souls. The desire for wealth and the things it buys can easily develop into an unhealthy and deadly greed that poisons our relationship to the material world, and to all the people around us.
Wealth can replace the highest good, and become our golden idol.
And what's the antidote to Greed?
For this Sunday… read Luke 12: 13-31
Upcoming 10 am Services
Pastor - Joe Abbey-Colborne unless otherwise noted
Series - The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Life-Giving Virtues
May 10 - Gluttony (Moderation)
May 17 - Lust (Self-Control)
May 24 - Pentecost! Breakfast Church and Communion
May 31 - Sloth (Diligence)
June 7 - Rage (Patience)
God is in the business of transforming — recreating, rebuilding, and renewing all kinds of things: lives, friendships, marriages, organizations, cities, tribes, and nations. He invites us to participate with him in this. He calls it “following him." We call it our mission.
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Beliefs and Values
Our church name is Immanuel Community Church. Immanuel means “God with us.” Our name is one of our foundational beliefs – that God is with us in everything that happens, and he is calling us to serve in this community. . .
Sermons
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New to Immanuel
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Worship at Immanuel
Worship at Immanuel is a time for our community to gather together to bring praise to God, to share our lives and stories with each other, and to hear what God has to say to us through the Bible. Our hope is that worship mirrors our relationship with God, and so gives us opportunity as a community to pray, sing, reflect, lament, offer, listen, and respond to the challenges of the Bible. Through the Holy Spirit, we pray that our worship will transform our lives so that we grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Serving at Immanuel
We gather and serve in many different ways - and love to welcome and enfold all who want to walk with us! From setting up for the service, to making coffee, greeting, playing or singing, teaching - there are countless ways to use eyour gifts at Immanuel Community Church!
“Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.”
1 Chronicles 16:29
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Email
office@immanuelcrc.ca
Phone
905-451-7182