Cobourg Alliance Messages

Speaker: Jenica van Essen --- What does it look like to confront injustice and advocate for righteousness and peace? Is it only for people with position, possessions and power? Should only those with impenetrable shields and a golden lasso (i.e. Wonder Woman) step into the fray? Abigail will be our teacher in these things this week.

Speaker: Gloria Mathies --- How would you like to be remembered in future? Are the words unloved and forgotten on your list? These are words that describe Leah and her story – a story full of intrigue, pain, betrayal, longing, envy and heartbreak. In this week’s message entitled Leah who? we explore her story from Genesis 29 and ask the questions “Why is Leah’s heartbreaking story in the Bible and...

Speaker: Darryl and Luana Buckle --- This morning we're kicking off a series called She, where we recognize and to celebrate some remarkable women of faith from the Old and New Testament Scriptures. In week one we're celebrating the impact of a number of the women who helped build the New Testament church.

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- When it rains, it pours. When God’s involved, rain makes grain. Grain leads to grace. And in the story of Joseph, that grace leads to goodness. Join us for the final part of our series Overnight: The Story of Joseph when we discover how this whole story ends!

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- When it rains, it pours. And when God’s involved, rain makes grain. But what comes from all that grain? In week three of our series Overnight: The Story of Joseph we’ll start to see that all that grain, all the blessings that God has showered on Joseph, leads to grace. Grain leads to grace. Join us as we continue with the story of Joseph!

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- When it rains, it pours. But can anything good come from all that rain? When God’s involved, rain makes grain. In week two of our series Overnight: The Story of Joseph we’ll start to see that when sin’s involved, life gets messy. When God’s involved, that messy situation can start to turn around and create something good. Join us as we explore the next scene in th...

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- You’ve heard the phrase, right? When it rains, it pours… But have you heard what follows? When God’s involved, rain makes grain. Grain leads to grace. And grace reveals goodness. Journey with us as we learn from the life of Joseph and witness the hand of God at work to turn pouring rain into overflowing goodness. It doesn’t all happen overnight, but it happens. Co...

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- In the final message of the One Small Step series, we're talking about the greatest step of faith you can take to add purpose and passion to your life.

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- Ever notice when you lose something, it's always in the last place you look? This is more than just an obvious outcome, It's a profoundly human problem. Today in our series called one small step we're looking in a place we often overlook when we're cultivating a life like Jesus.

Speaker: Dan van Essen --- When Matthew first encounters Jesus he is a social outcast, notorious sinner, a traitor to his own people. Jesus calls him, forms and disciples him along the way through a model of invitation and challenge.

Speaker: Jenica van Essen --- "No, this isn’t a cautionary pandemic tale. This is the story of one woman’s life-changing encounter with Jesus and how it infected/affected a whole community."

Speaker: Dan van Essen --- “Every encounter we have with Jesus reveals something in us. This week we look at Mary and Martha and hear Jesus’ invitation to discover the one thing worth being concerned about this year: A posture of doing life WITH God.”

As we enter a new season of pandemic lockdowns, we're going to look back at 2020 and remind ourselves that no matter what we faced this past year, God has been and will continue to be faithful.

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- Something incredible was happening in the sky above Bethlehem that first Christmas.

Speaker: James Bisson --- This week for Christmas in Cobourg, we go on a journey to the nativity scene to better understand the role of the shepherds at the birth of the Lamb of God.

Speaker: Simon Chorley --- This week for Christmas in Cobourg, we are retracing the first years of Jesus' family, as they lived as displaced persons, reflecting on how we treat those displaced in our society.

Speaker: Chris Bebbington --- In Week 2 of Christmas in Cobourg, we look at how a particular moment in the Christmas account connects our past, present and future.

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- Right in the middle of some of our darkest days as humans, Jesus came, and he comes and He enters our story, to bring hope and help - just in time.

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- What do you do when you begin to recognize that your relationship with someone is changing enough that maybe you need to redefine that relationship and realign how you relate to that person? This week we're talking about how to build the kind of healthy boundaries you need to sustain healthy relationships.

Speaker: Pastor Darryl Buckle --- Relationships are complicated when you’re not living through a global, shelter in place mandate that has you sequestered, with your loved ones, in a house that now feels like it's the size of a bus full of junior highs!!! This week in our series based on Dr Dharius Daniels' book Relational Intelligence, we're talking about the single more important res...

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- Relationships can be tricky, messy, fun, challenging, exciting, deep, shallow, and just about anything else you can think of to describe them, can't they? Yeah, and then there's COVID. In a season like this, we'll benefit as a church from taking a long look at how to develop relational intelligence. This week we'll deepen our understanding of relat...

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- Relationships can be tricky, messy, fun, challenging, exciting, deep, shallow, and just about anything else you can think of to describe them, can't they? Yeah, and then there's COVID. In a season like this, we'll benefit as a church from taking a long look at how to develop relational intelligence.

Speaker: Jenica van Essen --- In our final week of the World of Wonder series we're talking about Service as a spiritual practice, will help you experience and ultimately join the Father in his cosmic plan of redemption.

Speaker: Pastor Tyler Tavares --- Our hearts are made to idolize only one being: God. When we engage the practice of worship, we center our hearts on God, putting everything else in life in its proper place. What is worship, and how can we engage it regularly?

Speaker: Dan van Essen --- Confession and forgiveness are the often neglected gifts for the Church that keep us rooted and established firmly in Jesus even when everything around shakes.