Pleasant Valley Church Sermons

We continue to walk through the Book of Jonah by digging into Chapter 3, where we find the "Worst Sermon Ever Preached." The chapter starts off with Jonah hearing from God a second time, that he needs to go to Nineveh, and this time - he does. Pastor Jesse highlights 3 lessons we can learn [...]

This week we continue in our Jonah series. Pastor Jesse highlights 3 surprises that we can find in the first 2 chapters of Jonah, and once again, challenges us to hold up the mirror and take a look at our own lives.

Pastor Jesse opens up a new series that we will be walking through over the next few weeks - The Book of Jonah. We are challenged to think about and hear the story in a way that may be different than we have done so in the past. This story of Jonah is about a [...]

Pastor Dion speaks from 1 Peter 4:1-11, specifically drawing out the ways in which we are called to live in light of what Jesus' death and resurrection on Easter weekend.

Today marks the culmination of all these Easter Eggs we have been exploring over the last several weeks. Pastor Dion highlights the importance of the Empty Tomb and how the surprise of not finding Jesus should affect our day to day lives.

As we look forward to Good Friday and Easter Sunday later this week, we continue in our series looking for Easter Eggs found throughout scripture. This week, Pastor Jesse walks through Holy Week, highlighting a few of the many Easter Eggs that are found in the week leading up to Jesus' death and resurrection.

We are privileged this morning to have Tyson Ginter share the message with us. Tyson continues our Easter Egg series by looking at the Flood Narrative from Genesis 6 where God floods the world and wipes out humanity. Tyson draws out several similarities between the Flood and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Jesse continues our Easter Egg series leading up to Easter by looking at the story of Joseph and how it connects to the story of Jesus. The story of Joseph, and later Jesus, reminds us that even when it doesn't make sense and we can't see how, we can know that God is still [...]

Pastor Jesse opens a new series titled, "Easter Eggs, Finding Jesus in Surprising Places." As we lead up to Easter, we want to be intentional about walking through scripture and seeing the Easter Eggs that point to Jesus' mission and purpose here on earth. Pastor Jesse speaks this morning about the King / Priest Melchizedek, [...]

This morning Professor Terry Hiebert from Steinbach Bible College joins us and speaks about "Leaving a Legacy."

Pastor Jesse speaks this morning from the story found in Matthew 4, about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. Pastor Jesse highlights the lies and the truths about being in the wilderness. Ultimately pointing to the truth that the wilderness will not last forever, and that victory for us as believers is assured.

Kent Dueck from Inner City Youth Alive joins us this morning to give an update on different programming at ICYA. Kent also asks the question, how does the Gospel transcend into our time and culture. Using verses from Luke 4, Kent shares about Jesus' heart for the weak and marginalized, and how we, the Church [...]

This morning we invite guest speaker Peter Ascough to share with us. Using his skills and experience from his work as a counsellor and a pastor, Peter speaks about Mental Health, Mental Illness, and the ways in which we are called to be the Church for people journeying through mental health/illness. Peter will be leading [...]

As we conclude our series titled, "It's Like..." Pastor Dion highlights one more metaphor for the Church - The Church as "The Flock of Christ." Using different traits of sheep we can learn how we are to live as the Church, with Jesus as our Good Shepherd.

This Sunday we are blessed to have Pleasant Valley supported missionaries, Michael and Savannah Driedger with us. Michael and Savannah serve at the YFC drop-in in Niverville. This morning Michael shares with us some metaphors for the Christian life that he learned while learning to surf in Tofino.

Pastor Jesse continues our "It's Like..." series by looking at the Church as the Bride of Christ. Pastor Jesse digs into what this metaphor means from God's angle as the groom, and from ours as the bride of Christ.

Pastor Dion continues our "It's Like" series by looking at how the church is called to be like the Temple. Spending time in Ephesians 2:19-22 Pastor Dion draws out the way in which the church is built as a Temple, and how we are practically called to live that out.

As we continue looking at different metaphors for the Church found in the New Testament, Pastor Jesse focuses this week on "Family."

Darren Plett continues our "It's Like" series by looking at the metaphor found in Matthew 5:14-16. Immediately following last weeks "Salt of the Earth" metaphor, this weeks focus is on, "Light of the World."

Pastor Jesse opens up a new sermon series titled, "It's Like..." This series will explore different metaphors that are used in the Bible to describe The Church. Today Pastor Jesse begins by looking at the metaphor found in Matthew 5 - "The salt of the earth."

As we prepare to enter into the New Year, Pastor Dion challenges us to focus more on Jesus' character, and less on ourselves. Using verses from the Advent Calendars that were handed out at the beginning of December, Pastor Dion speaks of Jesus bringing salvation, being our shepherd, and being great and worthy of our [...]

Guest speaker Kendall Schmitke joins us this morning as we continue walking through our Advent series focused on "Comfort and Joy", this morning specifically, Joy. Kendall challenges us to be windshield people, looking forward towards Joy, and not focusing too much on the small rear view mirror.

Pastor Jesse continues our Advent Series by looking at the less familiar Christmas Story which is found in Revelation 12.

Danae Parkinson opens our Advent series by speaking from Isaiah 40:1-5. Comfort and Joy are the focus of our Advent series this year. Danae speaks about some of the basics that may often be overlooked in the Christian life.

As we look forward to Advent beginning next week, Pastor Dion asks the question, Why Advent? He leaves us with a few challenges to consider as we enter the Advent season.