McKernan Baptist Church Podcast

On this First Sunday of Advent, we focus on the hope Jesus came to bring. In Colossians 3:5-11 Paul gets very practical about how setting our hearts and minds on Christ should impact our lives at the level of those issues where we struggle to follow Him. Paul exposes the root cause of our sin and challenges us to invite Christ's transformative power into these root causes. Rather than hide these p...

Pastor Lyle goes through different examples of anger. greed. sexuality, and pride and how they effect us when we will let them become our ultimate instead of Christ.

Our journey through Colossians has repeatedly emphasized how walking with God is not about external conformity to a list of rules. What then, is it about? At the beginning of chapter 3, Paul turns his thoughts toward this question, beginning with a challenge that we take a hard and honest look at our ultimate affections and allegiances. Put another way, "what do we love and what makes life worth l...

Our walk with Jesus is not without potential diversions, so let's be prayerfully aware of the pull toward...

Freedom from disqualification to a place of belonging with God's people, freedom from guilt and shame, freedom from the powers of darkness.

Today is Reformation Sunday. Our whole theme of walking WITH God in personal relationship rests on the return to Biblical truth that came out of the Protestant Reformation. This truth has been summarized in five rallying cries that have come to be known as the five 'solar'.

A key reason Paul wrote Colossians was to encourage new followers of Jesus in the city of Collossae. His comments here provide a lot of insight into the meaning we can derive intentionally walking with God.

"We all have a picture of God, and when you get down to the core, what you believe about God (who He is) really matters" - Pat Barret

When Paul wrote to the Colossians, he addressed a culture that had a very limited view of who Jesus was. Some saw Him as one "god" among many. Others from a more Jewish background struggled to see Him as God at all. As a result, Paul penned a powerful portrait of Jesus that continues to challenge our (too small) ideas of Him today.

Colossians 1:12-1

We are currently in a series of sermons from the book of Colossians we're calling "The Immanuel Agenda: Life with God." Today we come to Paul's prayer for the people in the Colossian church. When we look closely at his prayer we see that it is based on what he knows to be true of walking with God and reflects his desire that the Collisions grow ever deeper in their experience of life with God.

After his initial greetings, Paul begins this letter with a prayer thanking God for how the Christians in Colossae were walking with Him (1:3-8). His description of of their Christian walk provides some helpful "footprints" to follow as we look for direction in our journey to experience life WITH God.

We kick off our new series, "WITH", by looking at Paul's description of those who will receive his letter.

Micah was a prophet in Judah during an especially turbulent time. God's people wavered between obedience and rebellion. Micah brought a message from God to His people during a time of rebellion that challenged whether God's children really knew their God or merely knew about Him. In response to God's questions, as to whether are rebelling against Him the children of Israel ask the question, "With...

Today we conclude a series entitled "Summer Classes in the Kings' Court", in which we have explored the stories of Israel's lesser known kings, by looking at the reign of King Josiah.

Today we will look at the reign of King Hezekiah, whose good reign is summarized with the statement that he "trusted in the Lord" (2 Kings 18:5). There is a prayer of Hezekiah recorded in Isaiah 38 where he specifically praises God for His faithfulness (v. 19-20).

A look into Nehemiah 1 and Pastor Isaac from Mexico City & Huixuilucan shares with us.

Today we will look at the reign of King Joash, whose early years led to a very godly period in an otherwise bleak era in Judah's history. Unfortunately, after such a good start, the reign of Joash ended poorly

Today we will look at the reign of King Ahab, who is introduced as the ruler that significantly promoted the worship of Baal in Israel. In many ways, the worship of Baal was a religious form of materialism, which can be seen as the pursuit of well-being through the accumulation of external "stuff".

We begin today with King Jeroboam and see how life offers a very important lesson on the subtleties ad dangers of compromise.

The bible tells us that if we trust in God with all our hearts, He will make our paths straight. Today we will look at the story of Ananias and how he was faced with what he perceived to be a potentially life-threatening challenge. We will see how Ananias responded to this task with trust and obedience and how God made his path straight. We will look at how this story is relevant to us today. It g...

Over the last number of weeks we have given attention to being in right relationship with God, one another, and our neighbour. Along the way, we have had opportunities to have our own life changed as we faithfully follow God's leading. Today we will look closely at how God's compassion towards us allows us to be empowered to compassionately come alongside others.

Jesus shared the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) to a group of people who were looking for an easy answer. His answer wasn't what hey expected, and it gives us a glimpse into how we called to reach out to our neighbours.

Looking at the directions Jesus gave us to go out and impact the neighbours around us.

As a church, we have purposed to be in "right relationship with our neighbours." We are currently in a series of messages exploring a passage (Luke 10: 1-24) where Jesus sent out seventy-two of His followers to the neighbouring towns in what proved to be a very influential venture. In Jesus' instructions to those He sent, He offered important teaching what is involved in effective outreach. Over t...