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Do you often feel weak and inadequate? Having Daring Faith is as much about strength and courage as it is about being vulnerable and pliable to the Lord in our weaknesses. Through humility, dependency, and compassion, God power is made perfect through every weak area we acknowledge and surrender to Him.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Larry Hasmatali.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Rev. Jeremy MacDonald.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with John Mohan.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Pastor Alex Allan.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Phil Siggelkow.

Christianity differs from all other major world religions in that our Savior is alive, and not dead! Easter Sunday is the day on which we celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead and the new life this resurrection now offers! Through Christ, tombs can become wombs for God to birth something new in and through each one of us!

This weekend we will look at Abraham, who is known as the Father of Faith. Though imperfect, Abraham teaches us that faith is about moving forward into the unknown and learning to trust a big and capable God who has a plan beyond what we may be able to see or understand.

Do you have a story of when things went from bad to worse? The book of Genesis relates the story of how quickly God's idyllic creation went downhill after the fall ... until we meet Noah. Imagine the ridicule, the loneliness, and the enormity of the task as he spends 120 years building the ark! Yet it is such daring faith that God calls each of us to today - a faith that perseveres at all costs.

Few of us enjoy stepping out into something where we can't see the path clearly, and yet that's exactly what Jesus calls us to do. In Exodus, God called the Israelites to begin walking through the Red Sea even before the entire path was visible, requiring a Daring Faith in Him that far transcended their fear or comfort zones.

AJ Crocker has a deep passion to see youth and young adults shaped by the Bible so they can live their lives more like Jesus and less like the world. AJ, Cheryl and their three kids have attended COG for three years and worked at Briercrest for 15 years. Cheryl has been a teacher at CHS/BCA and AJ has served in various roles such as Youth Quake Director, High School Chaplain, and Director of Recru...

Few of us enjoy waiting. But since God's plans and timetable are higher than ours, we can trust He's working in us in those interim seasons when we're longing for breakthrough, preparing us to better steward the blessing when it comes.

Do you have what it takes to be a soldier? The Apostle Paul uses military imagery frequently in his letters, paralleling the training, focus, and sacrifice required to give our best to God. In these tumultuous times, we must define what we're willing to die for and be ready to do so in order to fully live.

Selfishness is ingrained in us from birth, it's true ... and yet part of loving God deeply is learning how to give generously. By demonstrating our love for God through giving our resources, our praise, our gratitude, our grace, and our forgiveness lavishly, we build daring faith in our lives for His glory.

Can faith grow? If so, how? The Bible says yes, and that it is God who works in us to grow our faith through His grace, through His Word, through community, and through adversity. So let's bear with one another in love, seeing every trial as an opportunity to allow God to grow us and others.

Have you ever encountered a problem as big and scary as an 800-pound gorilla? The Bible contains many stories of small people who had big faith, like David, whose trust in God enabled him to defeat a giant.

Faith is one of the major themes in the Bible, but what is it exactly? It's not about wishful thinking, our feelings, or manipulating God, but about seeing God for who He is and seeing our circumstances from His perspective. So let's pray for our eyes of faith to be opened and to see the unseen - which is true reality.

Like it or not, there are no guarantees in life. Yet followers of Jesus do have the guarantee of His ultimate win over sin, death, and the Enemy, and that He will finish the good work He started in each of us. It is to celebrate this amazing truth that Jude concludes his epistle with a doxology of praise, adoration, and exaltation. Through Christ, we shall be victorious - so let's contend for the...

There is a battle raging inside each one of us. Our animalistic cravings contend to break us down, and we need to constantly be walking in the power of the Holy Spirit to build us up. Jude's is an urgent message. False messages and evil influences abound, with the only way forward being a life obedient to Christ and remaining in His love. Let's contend for the faith!

As Christians, we have been given a mission - the mission of being God's ambassadors on earth working to reconcile people to Himself. Pastoral Intern Will Dmytrow unpacks what our true mission is and why it's so important to keep front of mind.

Have you ever gone into a room, only to forget why you went there? As we get older, we tend to become more forgetful. Regardless of age, forgetfulness is a serious human condition that makes us prone to make the same mistakes again and again. That's why there is tremendous value in studying history and remembering long past events - particularly those recorded in the Bible - as a means of warning...

If life were a minefield, wouldn't you value knowing the truth of how to navigate through it safely? The short book of Jude calls its readers to remember the truth about who they are and to contend for the faith they were called into, so that those who come after them will know the truth, too.

Boxing Day is known for its sales, and for its returns. Yet Christmas offers us a gift we'll want to keep for life - Jesus. Through the gift of God's Son, we receive a new identity, a new source of power, and a new family. Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

What does it mean to have joy? And how is it possible to follow the command to 'rejoice always'? The Bible teaches clearly that joy is not an emotion and doesn't come from ourselves. It's all about choosing to allow the Good News from Heaven to enter us personally.