Ottawa Valley Community Church Sermons

Most Christians started out as skeptics and most of us who grew up in the faith go through significant periods of doubt and wrestling as we try to find an intellectual framework for our experience of knowing Jesus. Whether you’re a skeptic, or a believer wrestling with doubt, you are probably digging into the same questions. Did Jesus exist? Is his story based on myths? Can we trust what was writt...

Looking in while looking out! There is a weird tension in Christianity. We are called to gather in a holy way to grow in godliness and pray for our world representing its needs to God while at the same time we are supposed to represent Jesus as a relevant answer to our non-christian friends. How do we be both “churchy” and mission oriented at the same time. How do we do that as whole people withou...

This week's talk is about understanding our complex relationship with God's beautiful, messy church and its ambitious, risky, insanely audacious and preposterous mission to reveal His glory to the world!

The Bible tells us to love the Lord our God with all of our mind. What does that mean and how can we do that? How do faith and reason relate? Can we be both devoted to Jesus and committed to intellectual integrity? How can worshipping God with our minds change the town of Carleton Place?

"Love the Lord your God… with all your SOUL." You are a person… a fascinating, wonderful, complex, beautiful personality. You have a unique identity. No one is wired exactly like you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made, influenced by God’s creative intention and a bit broken by sin too. How do we sort through all that? How do we love God with all that? How do we offer it to Him? Find out in th...

There is one prayer that Jesus likely prayed twice a day EVERY day! It's called the "Shema", and like everything Jesus did, He did it with a twist. How would understanding what Jesus prayed help you love like Jesus loved?

In this week's talk, we look at what it means to be yoked with Jesus in our work, and how to rest as God intended, as demonstrated by the Lord of the Sabbath.

In this talk, Ahren discusses how to work with passion and intensity, and yet balance that out with sabbath, rest, and time away. He shares about how to make all those things work together so that you can be, over the long-term, a healthy and productive kingdom person.

In this week's talk, Matt shares how our identity is solid in our heavenly Father, through what Jesus has done, and how we are to operate out of this identity and fullness. We are also encouraged to pursue honesty and vulnerability with one another.

This week, we explore walking through suffering with God's help, and clothing ourselves with humility as we seek to fully obey the Lord's will.

This week, we take look at the story of David, Jonathan and Mephibosheth, from 1st and 2nd Samuel, and we get a new sense of God's unearned kindness and favour towards us.

Jake pulls from core text of I Cor 2:1-5, as he shares about the power of the cross in Paul's life, and ours.

This week, we are blessed as James shares his testimony with the rest of the church.

In this talk, Vince leads us in a meditation of Psalm 33.

In this talk, Jake explains how we are in the story of the bible as Christians, and we all have our part to play. He also discusses what it can look like to commune with God.

In this talk, we discuss spiritual gifts, and we look at the role of home groups and our goal of reaching our community for Christ.

In this talk, we focus in on the unchurched in our area, and we are inspired as we look at Jesus' compassion for the multitudes, and we are challenged as he then empowers his disciples and sends them out to collect this precious harvest.

In this talk, we take a look at some of the barriers to meaningful relationship and community. Ahren encourages us through the scriptures and personal stories, and reminds us of the importance of intentionally meeting together.

In this talk, Jake explains how the Son of God wants to lead us to an abundant and deep joy, and encourages us to make seeking this a top priority.

This mother's day, we take a look at inter-generational community, and how each person is meant to be led by someone further ahead in the journey, and is also called to encourage and be an example for others.

In this talk, we take a close look at listening to the voice of scripture, the prophetic, community and council, theology, and using practicality, reason and knowledge when making decisions.

In this talk, we take a close look at listening to God and discerning within community, when it comes to making hard decisions.

In this talk, we take a look at the problem of pain and suffering in the world, and the hope that Jesus brings.

In this Easter message, Ahren discusses the empty tomb, and its relevance to our lives today.

In this talk, we take a closer look at the triumphal entry, and how Jesus humbly led us in quiet sacrifice.