{"id":11843,"date":"2019-11-15T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vcac.ca\/english\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:01:46","slug":"a-special-talk-on-christian-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vcac.ca\/english\/a-special-talk-on-christian-maturity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Talk on Christian Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 8th, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;color: #000000\">A Special Talk on Christian Maturity<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Dr. Gordon Smith, President of Ambrose University<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 20px\">9:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Service<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 20px\">An Invitation to Maturity in Christ<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Ephesians 4:7-16<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 20px\">11:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Seminar<\/span>\u00a0(Room 211)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 20px\">A Reflection on Prayers<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Dr. Smith will lead us in a reflection on the practice of prayer and what it means to pray &#8220;thy kingdom come.&#8221; Prayer is a fundamental and basic practice and habit of our lives.\u00a0 And we will only grow as Christians when we learn how to pray.\u00a0 This seminar will be a basic introduction for those who are new to Christian faith and it will be a helpful reminder for those who need to renew the practice of prayer in their lives.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 20px\"><span style=\"color: #333333\">Venue:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VCAC-Knight Street Church &#8211; Sanctuary<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vcac.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/Poster-for-Dr.-Gordon-Smith.pdf\">Poster<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 8th, 2019 A Special Talk on Christian Maturity By Dr. Gordon Smith, President of Ambrose University 9:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Service An Invitation to Maturity in Christ Ephesians 4:7-16 11:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Seminar\u00a0(Room 211) A Reflection on Prayers Dr. Smith will lead us in a reflection on the practice of prayer and what it means to pray &#8220;thy kingdom come.&#8221; Prayer is a fundamental and basic practice and habit of our lives.\u00a0 And we will only grow as Christians when we learn how to pray.\u00a0 This seminar will be a basic introduction for those who are new to Christian faith and it will be a helpful reminder for those who need to renew the practice of prayer in their lives.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Venue: VCAC-Knight Street Church &#8211; Sanctuary Poster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-ministries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Special Talk on Christian Maturity - English Ministry | Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vcac.ca\/english\/a-special-talk-on-christian-maturity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Special Talk on Christian Maturity - English Ministry | Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sunday, December 8th, 2019 A Special Talk on Christian Maturity By Dr. Gordon Smith, President of Ambrose University 9:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Service An Invitation to Maturity in Christ Ephesians 4:7-16 11:30 AM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Seminar\u00a0(Room 211) A Reflection on Prayers Dr. Smith will lead us in a reflection on the practice of prayer and what it means to pray &#8220;thy kingdom come.&#8221; 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