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Date: Sunday December 21, 2025 Scripture: Lk.  2:22-35 Speaker: Ephraim Daniels Series: A Divine Disruption: Jesus Changes Everything

Date: Sunday December 14, 2025 Scripture:  Matt 2:1-18 Speaker: John Hilber Series: A Divine Disruption: Jesus Changes Everything

Date: Sunday December 7, 2025 Scripture: Mt. 1:18-24 Speaker: Mike Lewis Series: A Divine Disruption: Jesus Changes Everything

Date: Sunday November 30, 2025 Scripture: Luke 1:26-38 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: A Divine Disruption: Jesus Changes Everything Mary of Nazareth's life was unfolding as she expected it to, and in the same way she'd seen a hundred times before in the lives of a hundred other women in her village. The angel's visit changed everything - and when Mary learned of her place in God's p...

Date: Sunday November 23, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit In this last message, we consider the one fruit in the list that we can't learn by looking at God's example - since He has no evil impulses that need to be restrained. Instead, self-control is what the Spirit produces in us as we learn delayed gratificatio...

Date: Sunday November 16, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Nathan Tomes Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit In our culture, those who are gentle and meek are often seen as weak. They're not. For those who all God to live His life through them, He will produce in them the super-power that is gentleness. That gentleness is beautifully illustrated in the parable of the...

Date: Sunday November 9, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit Many of us crave affirmation, praise, or to be known as 'the best' at whatever we do. God's metric is different. He praises people not for their performance or success, but their faithfulness with what He has entrusted to them. In other words, faithfuln...

Date: Sunday November 2, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit Goodness may well be the hardest of all the fruit to practice, because goodness isn't "fair". God hasn't always given us what we felt we'd earned or deserved, but God has always been good to us. In the same way, He calls us to treat each other...

Date: Sunday October 26, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Lane Fusilier Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit We struggle to treat each other with kindness because revenge and 'payback' come so much more easily in this culture. How do we become kind? In this message, our friend Lane Fusilier walks us through the Scripture - and his own life - to show that kindness is the...

Date: Sunday October 19, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Sarah Robinson Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit Patience may seem like a strange thing to include alongside love, joy, and peace, as the fruit of the Spirit, but patience is a super important part of a healthy, holy life. In this message, our friend Sarah Robinson walks through the life of Jesus, showing how H...

Date: Sunday October 12, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit God's peace is far more than just the absence of war or violence. Peace is the opposite of worry, fear, and anxiety. In our anxious world, we are desperate for peace, and God offers peace by His Spirit as He is allowed to live His life through us. In this messa...

Date: Sunday October 5, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit Do you remember what joy feels like? Many of us think God is indifferent as to whether we enjoy Him or not. As though all He cares about is being obeyed. In this message, we're introduced (or re-introduced) to the God of joy, and invited to find in Jesus an all-...

Date: Sunday September 28, 2025 Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit This message is the first in a nine-part study of the fruit of the Spirit. Here, we're introduced to the Spirit and His fruit, and invited to consider the first fruit in the list: love. What happens when we compare the ways the world understands love with the lov...

Date: Sunday September 21, 2025 Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-14 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Be the Church A third difference between going to church and BEING the church is about how we think about sharing Jesus with others: What we say about Jesus matters, and HOW we say it REALLY matters. In this message, we learned that the Church is sent - by Jesus, to embody the Good News in our communities, sc...

Date: Sunday September 14, 2025 Scripture: Acts 2:42-47 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Be the Church Another difference between those who merely GO to church and those who are BEING the church is how we treat each other in community. We will ALL find our way into communities of various kinds. In this messages we learned what kind of community we're made for, and are challenged to find it - and...

Date: Sunday September 7, 2025 Scripture: Mark 9:1-8 Speaker: Mike Mileski Series: Be the Church The difference between GOING to church and BEING the church can be seen in how we do discipleship differently: It's not about believing a bunch of true things ABOUT Jesus, but becoming like Him. In this message we shared how we as a church understand discipleship, using the three Orthos: Orthodoxy...

Date: Sunday August 31, 2025 Scripture: Matt 22:15-22 Speaker: Hobbe Smit Series: Money Talks When the Lord was being challenged about whether it's right to pay taxes to Caesar or not, He used it as an opportunity to teach us about the value of a person, compared to the value of a coin. In this message, our friend and neighbour Hobbe Smit shares that God's image is stamped on us and asks:...

Date: Sunday August 24, 2025 Scripture: John 6:1-15 Speaker: Bill Allan Series: Money Talks Just before the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Jesus' disciples couldn't imagine HOW they'd be able to look after all these people. Their perspective was limited by sight, not by faith. In this message, our friend and AGC President Bill Allan shows us that Jesus can be trusted to meet our nee...

Date: Sunday August 17, 2025 Scripture: Acts 5:1-11 Speaker: Derek Hisson Series: Money Talks The story of Ananias and Sapphira is an ancient horror story of greed, deception, and pride. How much does God love us? How much does God care about the Church and its mission? This tale gives us the answer. #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatr...

Date: Sunday August 10, 2025 Scripture: Luke 12:16-34 Speaker: Mike Lewis Series: Money Talks How we relate to money can show where we've put our trust, but more often, it shows where our trust is NOT. We fear to lose, we fear to go without. As God's people we think we trust God to provide, so why are we just as anxious as anyone else? #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #mate...

Date: Sunday August 3, 2025 Scripture: Proverbs 30:7-9 Speaker: John Garner Series: Money Talks One of the reasons we're more often managed by our money than managers of our money is because we fail to see it as a tool entrusted to us by God. In this message, our friend John Garner teaches through the ancient, gutsy, counter-cultural prayer from Proverbs 30: "Give me neither poverty or we...

Date: Sunday July 27, 2025 Scripture: Matthew 19:16-24 Speaker: Rony Mikhael Series: Money Talks The Rich Young Ruler rejected Jesus' invitation because he couldn't imagine allowing anything to supplant his wealth as his true god. In this message, Rony asks us whether wealth has the same power over us. #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospe...

Date: Sunday July 20, 2025 Scripture: Luke 12:22-31 Speaker: Thomas + Miriam Vanderkruk Series: Money Talks Jesus has more to say about money than almost any other subject - so you'd think we'd trust that He knows what He's talking about. This week's message is a conversation with Tom + Miriam - newlyweds learning to trust God to provide. #parables, #gospel, #jesus, #church, #money...

Date: Sunday July 13, 2025 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20 Speaker: John Hilber Series: Money Talks Ecclesiastes is a collection of practical, realistic wisdom sayings that most of us ignore at our own peril. In this message, we see that we're not the first ones to struggle with the power of our possessions. God's ancient people were just as torn, just as tempted to find their identity in...

Date: Sunday July 6, 2025 Scripture: Joshua 7:1-26 Speaker: Lane Fusilier Series: Money Talks Why do we do what we do? It's because all of us have disordered desires. If we're greedy for money, and if we'd disobey God in order to have more of it, it's because we don't love what we think we do. This message is an invitation to reflect deeply on WHY money has such a hold on our h...