Cascades Church Sermons

In our concluding message on Matthew’s Gospel, we look to Jesus’s promise to always be with his disciples. It’s a promise to protect and empower us to be and do all that He’s redeemed us for. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we […]

Jesus longs to renew the world through His disciples. He has empowered them to be His agents of renewal. In this message, Pastor Alex looks back on what we witnessed and learned last year, and outlines we will need to focus on in the coming years if we are going to become and do what […]

In the second of three messages focused on Matthew 28:16-20, we ask the question: how do we make the kinds of disciples Jesus desires? Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit […]

In the first of three messages focused on Matthew 28:16-20, we unpack how the resurrection of Jesus Christ was received by his disciples with worship and doubt, and how Jesus responds to these things with a great claim and command. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our […]

In this message, we explore how God created us in His image for a purpose. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKSFollowing Jesus Today course: https://bit.ly/3WsbcWWCommunity […]

The common understanding of Jesus’s teaching from Matthew 25 is that Christians should help the “least of these” as if we are helping Jesus. And this is true and good. But what if there was also an even deeper challenge here? Are we sure we know who the sheep, goats, and “least of these” really […]

Matthew 25:31-46 is the conclusion to Jesus’ fifth and final sermon in this gospel. In it Jesus gives His disciples a depiction of what will happen when He returns. As a shepherd divides his sheep and goats, He will judge all the nations. It’s a startling picture, but even more striking is the basis for […]

We will unpack Acts 12:25-13:3 and learn how a time of prayer and worship spurred on a movement which changed the course of human history: Barnabas and Paul’s first missionary journey. The Spirit uses a prayer time to bring the good news to many. What might the Spirit be saying to our church this summer […]

In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples. His prayer teaches us a lot about how he wants us to relate to God, one another, and the world. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you'd like to learn more […]

What are the consequences when prayers are answered? Are we ready? The story of Paul and Silas offers a stunning picture of the consequences, the freedom, and the opportunity we given. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you'd like […]

Petitionary prayer is messy; we don’t understand how it “works”; but, maybe, we can learn from widows, madres and Jesus. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you'd like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca […]

On what basis does God hear our prayers? In Ephesians 2, the apostle Paul tells of what God has done for us through His Son Jesus changing not just our future but our present. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. […]

In this message, we explore importance of God's people interceding on behalf of others. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you'd like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Alpha: https://cascadeschurch.ca/alpha Following Jesus Today […]

In one of Jesus final messages to his disciples Jesus highlights a couple of paradoxes. One of the paradoxes Jesus opens up is that we are both mediated and welcomed directly to the Father. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. […]

Ephesians 3 offers us a prayer God wants to answer in your life. Paul prays for the new reality that Jesus established through his death and resurrection to be fully realized in your and I. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]

Love is the primary marker of being a disciple of Jesus. More than a feeling this love is self-sacrificial and counter to the way of our world and it’s most clearly modelled in Christ. If we are going to become a people of love we must first receive God’s love for us, only then will […]

The Lord’s Prayer is a gift. You can’t follow Jesus apart from praying. God designed life in His kingdom like that which is why Jesus places it exactly in the middle of his Sermon on Mount. The power to live out the way of Jesus is found in praying the Lord’s Prayer. Cascades Church is […]

In this message, we explore how, because of Jesus, we have access to God through the Holy Spirit. When we pray, we are taking hold of this gift, entering into the throne room of God. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]

In this update from two of Cascades’ supported missionaries, Alex sits down with Brad and April Bates to talk about what it has been like to serve Jesus as individuals and as a family. They share what their work has looked like over the past couple of years and what it will look like in […]

Matthew 24 is a highly disputed text which has produced any number of end-times predictions, especially in the past 200 years. Is that what it’s about? Or is there another message about faithfulness and witness that we should be taking from Jesus’ teaching? Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing […]

In Matthew 22, Jesus is confronted with a series of questions, the last of which essentially asks the “deep question” of life: What is our purpose? What should I spend my life pursuing? His answer is surprising and encouraging. Contrary to common Western assumptions about love, we are not at the centre; God is at […]

The Resurrection of Jesus changed everything. Sin, evil, and death no longer have the authority. In this Easter Sunday message we examine the implications of this for our lives drawing from the 3 imperatives found in Matthew’s account of the resurrection: (1) “do not be afraid”, (2) “come and see”, (3) and “go and tell”. […]

This Palm Sunday, we dive into Matthew 21, the climatic chapter where Jesus Christ arrives in Jerusalem. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Alpha: https://cascadeschurch.ca/alpha […]

In Matthew 22, Jesus confronts four controversial questions, the first of which is: is it lawful (right) to give tribute to Caesar? As we unpack this passage, we discover how Jesus intends for us to relate to God and governing authorities. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see […]

Jesus’s actions in the Jerusalem Temple and before the fig tree are often confounding, yet they are far from the outbursts of a temperamental or selfish man. A closer look reveals these as prophetic acts: a parable told through illustration. As we draw near to Easter, this message invites us to examine the “fruit” we […]