McKernan Baptist Church Podcast

Pastor Lyle Buyer

As we continue our focus on what it means to live in relationship "with" God, today we begin a series of sermons exploring this theme through the lens of the life of Jesus. Our first stop opens on a simple scene where we see parents bring their little children to Jesus that He might bless them. When HIs disciple confront the crowd for "wasting" Jesus' time this way. He counters by pointing to the...

Today Pastor Mike will look at the conclusion of Colossians. In these final greetings we meet some of the companions that Paul has in his walk, and we are introduced to what they bring along to support the journey.

Today we will look at how Paul's words in Colossians 4:2-6 give guidance to the practical outworking of our relationship with our "neighbours", those people in our communities and our world who live outside of a restored relationship with God.

Welcome to MCkernan Baptist Church! WE are glad you hAve joined us. AS we continue our focus on what it means to walk WITH God, we are currently exploring how we might be more intention in developing our relationships with God.

Today we will look at some direction Paul gives in Colossians 3:15-16 that guide the practical outworking of our relationship with God.

Since our ministry year began last September, we have been talking about what it means to walk with God. While Paul is clear that this walk is not about external rules and rituals, he also is clear that it is more than mindless wandering. In Colossians 3:17, Paul provides a concise summary regarding our walk with God.

Since the beginning of our ministry year last September, we have focused a them summarized simply by the word. "WITH". What does it mean to walk WITH God? We continue this theme into this new year as Tim Pippus brings a message today that well take us back two thousand years to a time when Jesus took Peter, James and John out for what they thought would be an ordinary hike. We will see how the ext...

Various members of the ministry staff will be reflecting on a number of Bible characters and what it meant for them to walk with God.

Today we will go through the Christmas Eve Story in the book of John and how Jesus is the Light that came into the world on Christmas.

We have affirmed again that the first and true gift of Christmas is Jesus Christ Himself, coming down to us as a light in our darkness (Is. 9:2,6). As with any gift, however, this coming of Christ calls for response.

The season of Advent anticipates the "coming" or "arrival" of Jesus. While we celebrate His first coming, we continue to await His second coming when He will return to fulfil what was set in motion through HIs birth, life, death and resurrection.

On this First Sunday of Advent, we focus on the hope Jesus came to bring. In Colossians 3:5-11 Paul gets very practical about how setting our hearts and minds on Christ should impact our lives at the level of those issues where we struggle to follow Him. Paul exposes the root cause of our sin and challenges us to invite Christ's transformative power into these root causes. Rather than hide these p...

Pastor Lyle goes through different examples of anger. greed. sexuality, and pride and how they effect us when we will let them become our ultimate instead of Christ.

Our journey through Colossians has repeatedly emphasized how walking with God is not about external conformity to a list of rules. What then, is it about? At the beginning of chapter 3, Paul turns his thoughts toward this question, beginning with a challenge that we take a hard and honest look at our ultimate affections and allegiances. Put another way, "what do we love and what makes life worth l...

Our walk with Jesus is not without potential diversions, so let's be prayerfully aware of the pull toward...

Freedom from disqualification to a place of belonging with God's people, freedom from guilt and shame, freedom from the powers of darkness.

Today is Reformation Sunday. Our whole theme of walking WITH God in personal relationship rests on the return to Biblical truth that came out of the Protestant Reformation. This truth has been summarized in five rallying cries that have come to be known as the five 'solar'.

A key reason Paul wrote Colossians was to encourage new followers of Jesus in the city of Collossae. His comments here provide a lot of insight into the meaning we can derive intentionally walking with God.

"We all have a picture of God, and when you get down to the core, what you believe about God (who He is) really matters" - Pat Barret

When Paul wrote to the Colossians, he addressed a culture that had a very limited view of who Jesus was. Some saw Him as one "god" among many. Others from a more Jewish background struggled to see Him as God at all. As a result, Paul penned a powerful portrait of Jesus that continues to challenge our (too small) ideas of Him today.

Colossians 1:12-1

We are currently in a series of sermons from the book of Colossians we're calling "The Immanuel Agenda: Life with God." Today we come to Paul's prayer for the people in the Colossian church. When we look closely at his prayer we see that it is based on what he knows to be true of walking with God and reflects his desire that the Collisions grow ever deeper in their experience of life with God.

After his initial greetings, Paul begins this letter with a prayer thanking God for how the Christians in Colossae were walking with Him (1:3-8). His description of of their Christian walk provides some helpful "footprints" to follow as we look for direction in our journey to experience life WITH God.

We kick off our new series, "WITH", by looking at Paul's description of those who will receive his letter.