Cascades Church Sermons

The Christmas season teaches us how to wait and what to wait for, and in Luke 2, Simeon shows us that Christian hope is a Spirit-empowered anticipation of future good rooted in the person and promises of God. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed […]

Daniel 7 highlights a pattern about life during exile and a promise for life after exile. The pattern is clear: human kingdoms become beastly when they glorify their own power and redefine good and evil. But the promise is greater: one day God will remove all beastly kingdoms, and the Son of Man will receive […]

To live as a Creative Minority is to take up a counter-cultural mission. In Daniel 6, Daniel shows us how — by treating our work and character as part of God’s call, by discerning truth from distortion in our culture, and by making our homes in God through prayer. Cascades Church is a church in […]

Pride distorts — it elevates us above God and leaves us unable to relate rightly to Him or to others. In Daniel 4, God humbles King Nebuchadnezzar and uses Daniel to reveal His truth and grace through two vital postures: compassion and courage. If we’re going to live as a creative minority in our day, […]

Everyone worships. The question is what we will give our ultimate attention and affection to. In Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego remind us that no matter the cost, God alone is worthy of our worship and He alone is able to deliver us. Their encounter with God also teaches us that what we elevate […]

How can we influence a culture often at odds with God’s ways while remaining faithful to God? In Daniel 2, we look at how Daniel’s dependence on God’s wisdom leads to him to compassionately advocate for his enemies and proclaim to King Nebuchadnezzar God’s triumphant, coming, and eternal kingdom. These practices vital to be being […]

How do we follow Jesus faithfully as a minority in a culture whose values are at times alien or even hostile to the way of Jesus? In this message we examine Daniel 1 exploring how Daniel and his friends lived as creative minorities — neither withdrawing from Babylon nor compromising with it — but resolving […]

In this message, we look at Jesus’ parable on the rich farmer in Luke 12:13-34. He invites his followers to forget about building bigger barns and instead choose to be generous to those in need. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]

In 1 Corinthians 9, the Apostle Paul compares the Christian life to a marathon. In order to win the race, you have to know where you’re heading, keep focus, and train, so that at the end of life, we can obtain the prize. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing […]

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is perhaps the longest and most sustained engagement on the topic of forgiveness that you will find in all of the New Testament. Through it, we discover how forgiveness opens the door to life in God’s Kingdom, and how Jesus intends for us to live in God’s forgiveness, so […]

In Matthew 18, Jesus give his disciples a way to work through the conflict that will arise when people learning to embrace the Way of Jesus come together. 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 […]

The quality of our love for Jesus is revealed in the extent to which we care for the ‘little ones’ among and beyond us. In this message, we explore Jesus’s command to not look down on the little ones and to seek out those who wander from the fold of God. Cascades Church is a […]

Lest we forget! Psalm 103 gives us one of the most powerful descriptions of the character and nature of God that we encounter in the Psalms. This beautiful Hebrew poem of thanksgiving reveals to us the very being of a loving and merciful God. The psalmist uncovers the relationship between the Lord and limited humans, […]

Songs are the soundtrack of our lives. They have a way of marking and enhancing moments in our lives. It should come as no surprise then that God’s people have treated the Psalms as their Songbook. No where is that more clear than in Psalm 136. This psalm invites us to make the repeating chorus […]

Follow Jesus long enough and you will find yourself joining in the ancient cry, How long, O Lord? What’s taking You so long to come to my help? Psalm 40 offers an example of how we can remain steadfast while waiting for God’s help. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver […]

In this message, we explore how Jesus and the Spirit of God lead us into the meaning of the Psalms and into liberation for the poor and oppressed. 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 […]

Experiencing guilt and shame are part of the human experience. It is no exaggeration to say that the way you relate to your guilt and shame will determine who you become. In Psalm 51, David brings the need for forgiveness into focus, and in so doing, teaches us about the nature of forgiveness and how […]

All of us will experience a season of disorientation – a time in the desert – as disciples of Jesus. Psalm 63 confronts us with a question: what will I seek in the desert? In Psalm 63, we discover a psalmist earnestly seeking God and in so doing, he finds joy, justice, security, satisfaction, purpose, […]

Taking a week off the Psalms for a Parable, Brad Bates of Multiply explores what it means to prepare our hearts to be good soil for God’s seed, by humbly receiving His word and allowing it to take root in our lives. Through confession, prayer and other spiritual disciplines, learn what it means to cultivate […]

Psalm 121 is a beautiful declaration of God’s unwavering protection and help. Come explore the comforting truth with our guest speaker, Dr. Ron Edgecombe, that God is not distant, but is our source of help, our constant protector, and our eternal keeper. In the midst of life’s chaos, we can find sanctuary in His presence […]

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 BREAD: https://cascadeschurch.ca/BREAD/ Making Room Initiative: https://cascadeschurch.ca/making-room/ The Creative Way Down Course: https://cascadeschurch.ca/creative-way-down/ C...

Witnessing Jesus walking on water instigated a major shift in the hearts of the disciples; their response was: “truly, You are the Son of God”. So what was it about this moment that changed their experience of Jesus, and what might it be for you and me? Cascades Church is a church in the heart […]

Our guest, Rev. Brad Strelau from CA Church, will share insights on how to invite both the hurting and the hopeful to see our Christian community as a sanctuary—one that embodies not just easy answers, but a lasting presence and grace in action. It’s a call for the local church to make room for the […]

Jesus continues His teaching on the community of love that He is forming. Love limits its freedom for others, love redirects its ambition towards others, and love does not want to hurt the faith of others. Jesus calls His followers to look inward, and radically deal with their sinful desires and behaviours, for the sake […]

We all want to be great. But one of the most counterintuitive of all Jesus’s teachings— that goes against everything we hear, and even the intuition of our own heart —is His teaching on greatness. For Jesus, the problem isn’t that we want to be great: it’s that the route we want to take towards […]