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Hosea - Hosea 14:1-9: When was the last time you felt truly blessed? When did you experience a surprise gift, a word of encouragement or a moment that filled your soul? One of the most beautiful aspects of the character of God is this: He loves to bless. However, God is also one who will not be mocked—He will not simply bless us if we are rebellious. As we conclude the book of Hosea and study chap...

Hosea - Hosea 11-13: Love and judgement. These two words seem to be polar opposites. And yet, careful insight and thinking demonstrate that these concepts are intimately linked. When we think of nearly anyone or anything we care about, correction is necessary for success. If you are a business owner or manager, you need to correct your employees for their own good. If you are in a relationship, so...

Hosea - Hosea 8-10: How quickly we forget. I am a chronic forgetter. If it weren’t for calendars, to do lists, schedules and every other memory tool I’d be a lesser man. One of the solutions to this problem is a carabineer for my keys to wear on a belt loop. My key forgetting has been reduced by 95% in incidents. It begs the question, how are we to keep God’s face in our focus when we don’t place...

Hosea - Hosea 6-7: Have you ever had a hard heart? Where your love for others, God or even self ran cold? It is a common experience. The great hymn, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, recalls this reality. The writer states, “prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.” As we study Hosea 6-7, we will see the nation of Israel, cold and hard-hearted and in need of a reviving wor...

Hosea - Hosea 4-5: We all have a price. Whether we like to admit it or not, all of us have a price at which we have sold ourselves to someone or something that is not The One True God. We are prone to making gods for ourselves and making gods of ourselves. In the Book of Hosea, God brings His charge against Israel, lays out the evidence of their rebellion and proclaims His sentence. But the story...

Hosea - Hosea 3: Are you really particular about what you buy? Do you look over everything carefully, checking things twice, to make sure that nothing is rotten, or damaged, or defective, before you make a purchase? That just seems like good common sense! But what if buying something that is broken is the better choice? What if that’s actually what we need to consider in order to truly understand...

Hosea - Hosea 2: 'But Me she forgot', that is where spiritual defection always ends up, living as if God doesn’t matter or even exist. In the case of Israel, they treated God as if He was irrelevant to life. And if we're honest, we can fall into the trap of doing the same thing today. We can find ourselves chasing after all kinds of things we are convinced will bring a happiness to our lives and l...

Hosea - Hosea 1: Scandal and grace. These are two words that do not seem to fit well together. And yet, as we look into Scripture, we see that they aptly describe the heart of God. As we begin a new summer series on the book of Hosea, we are going to see God’s scandalous grace towards undeserving people. In this first chapter of Hosea, we see both the tender mercy of God and His intense anger and...

Fourfold Gospel: A great portion of Christ's time was dedicated to healing the sick. He healed all kinds of people: the blind, the paralyzed, the lame, the deaf, lepers, those who had fevers, and many with chronic illnesses. We find no record in the gospels of Jesus turning away anyone who came to him for healing, nor do we find that any disease was too difficult for him to heal. He even raised th...

Fourfold Gospel - Revelation 22:6-21: One of the most loaded statements in the Christian faith is this: Jesus is coming back. It stirs ups theological controversy, it stirs up hope and joy, it stirs us up questions about timing. In short, it stirs us up. As a result, many churches simply put this great teaching to the side and focus on other issues. However, as we explore the foundations of the Ch...

Fourfold Gospel - 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8, 5:16-24: Have you ever had a moment where you felt dissatisfied with your Christian experience? Where you longed for a greater sense of freedom, empowerment, and life change? For many of us, if we are honest, we find ourselves longing for more. We have experienced the first few tastes of the goodness of Jesus Christ but we long for more. In this sermon, we...

Fourfold Gospel - Titus 3:3-7: When was the last time you needed someone to bail you out? To save your bacon? To throw you a lifeline? It’s not something that we ever expect, and certainly not something that we ever want to experience. But what if I were to tell you that this is the exact thing that we need to understand and accept in order to truly live? This week we will kick-off a short sermon...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 7:24-29: In one of the most well known passages in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus will deliver one of the most terrifying points about discipleship—we can construct a life that is built on counterfeit faith. We can have the appearance of walking with God, of loving the church, and when trials, storms, and even final judgment come, the foundation of our lives is reveal...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 7:15-23: I was learning to tie my shoes at the ripe age of 4. My family lived on site of a summer camp and the space was our domain. Being right on the lake provided several fun opportunities, the best being boating, of course. After one dinner at the camp, I unfortunately stepped on a shoelace of mine and undone the hours of hard work I had done to get that structura...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 7:12-14: Life seems to be a paradox and whenever Jesus taught, He embraced mystery of life. This week, Jesus will show us that the only way to be truly free is to be completely restricted. We understand this concept intuitively—if you want to be truly free while skating on ice you must dedicate yourself to practice for hours upon hours. Or if you want to experience re...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 7:7-11: Regardless of your religious beliefs, background or upbringing, chances are you’ve had at least one moment in your life where you have prayed. You may not have known what to say or to whom you should say it, but the impulse to pray – to reach out to someone or something beyond ourselves in our moments of need – is virtually a universal one. This weekend we wil...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 7:1-6: Judgment. A concept so powerful, so terrifying, that most of us do not want to think about it. And yet, so many of us find ourselves feeling judged by others. If we are honest, we often can catch ourselves judging others too. Shockingly, Jesus taught that we are not to judge others—a point that most Canadians love to agree with. But what precisely did Jesus mea...

Sermon On The Mount: What makes you worry? What keeps you up at night? What are the challenges that face you that make you feel like you’re losing control. According to mentalhealth.org, nearly 74% of us will face stress so profound that we feel like we have lost control. Although their problems were different, the experience of anxiety was well known in the ancient world. And Jesus made a scandal...

Sermon On The Mount - Matthew 6:19-24: We are back in the Sermon on the Mount! And this week, Jesus is going to steer us right into the topic of money, bondage, and how we get free. In Matthew 6:19-24, our text this week, Jesus sets up a repeating set of contrasts that demand our attention. We have the choice to live a life with great freedom, joy, and a deep sense of the Father’s affection or we...

Easter 2023: It is Easter! The highest moment in the Christian calendar. A day of celebration, victory, family and even treats. But why? What is the big deal about Easter and the resurrection of Jesus? One of the great challenges 21st-century people face is this: what does the resurrection tell me about every day life? What is the significance? Even deeper questions also arise, how can we trust th...

Easter 2023 - Luke 19:28-40: If you are a Christian, do you trust Jesus? If you don't identify as a Christian or hold another religious belief, do you trust the idea of Jesus? Who he was? What he did? What he taught? A different take on the question: Do you trust Jesus as king? As an authority? Think about the last time you were betrayed or hurt by someone in authority or by a collective authority...

On Mission - Mark 1:29-39: When you hear the word “missions” what comes to mind? For some, it evokes images of career missionaries moving to distant nations to share the gospel. For others, it looks like short-term trips given to relief work like digging wells or building a school. But what if missions was described not only as something done “over there,” but here in Canada as well? And what if I...

Be Still: What are the most common thoughts that run through your head? What do you say to yourself, about yourself? How are your stress and anxiety levels? One of the great challenges of modern life is the level of complexity and stress that we face in day-to-day life. And much of the challenge relates to how we think. In this message, we will look at the teachings of Scripture and the promise of...

Be Still: Be still. How do you feel about those words? It is one of the commands of God to learn to be still and in that stillness we begin to know who He is. In quietness, we begin to receive revelation about the very nature, character and person of God. In this series we are looking at how being still can invite us into significant freedom, life change and growth. This week in particular, we are...

Be Still: Be still. How do you feel about those words? It is one of the commands of God to learn to be still and in that stillness we begin to know who He is. In quietness, we begin to receive revelation about the very nature, character and person of God. In this series we are looking at how being still can invite us into significant freedom, life change and growth.