Temple Cambridge

This Sunday we welcome back the Ford family from Moldova. They have been our missionaries there for many years and are here for a short visit to take their eldest child to university. Moldova is a difficult place to minister, and God has used the Fords mightily. Daniel will be giving an update on their work as well as be preaching on the glorious passage of Romans 8:18-30. Please come and be ready...

Happy Canada Day weekend! This Sunday, our own Mike Racinsky, will be unpacking the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector found in Luke 18:9-14. Mike is the director of NEXT Gen ministries for FEB Central (our region within the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches) and it is a privilege to have Mike, Sara and their two children as members of Temple.

“Therefore, there is no longer condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” These words kick off what is called “the inner sanctuary within the cathedral of the Christian faith.” They are the beginning words of the grand chapter of Romans 8 that has been a bulwark for so many believers including myself, down through the centuries. We will be specifically looking at Romans 8:1-17 and the amazin...

Happy Father's Day! Do you ever not do the good you want to do? If so, you are in good company with one of the greatest Christians to ever live - the Apostle Paul. Paul gets very transparent in Romans 7:7-25 with his internal conflict of wanting to live for God, but not always measuring up. This is what we are going to learn this week as the newly ordained Rev. Kyle Rhora will be unpacking the...

Have you ever been under probation? Maybe you had to wait for 3 months working at your new job and then finally you were released from certain restrictions. It is freeing, and you receive new benefits! The rules can still be helpful, but they no longer govern us. In a similar way, God’s plan was to put restrictions on us humans during the probationary period under the Mosaic Law, so we wouldn’t hu...

What are you enslaved to? Did you realize that we can be either enslaved to righteousness or unrighteousness? What does it look like and more importantly, what are the implications for our lives? Lord willing, we will tackle those questions this week as we finish Romans 6. May being Christ’s slave be liberating to you!

Twenty-nine years ago this Sunday, I had the great honour of marrying Lori Henry from Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She is my wife, my best friend, my only lover, the mother of my children, grandmother of my grandchildren and primary ministry partner. I have many names for her: “Babe,” “Lori Lou” (it’s her Kansas name where many women go by two names), and “Honey.” What I don’t call her is “Ball and Cha...

Happy Victoria Day weekend! The unofficial start of summer. Some of you take the weekend to weather the cold and go camping, while others of you are planting your flowers and vegetables as we are now supposed to be in the frost-free zone. For those of you who are not away, I would encourage you to come to worship with us and hear Pastor Kyle teach us from Romans 6:1-4 on how we are united with Chr...

Happy Mother's Day! I don’t know about you, but sometimes I feel guilty as a parent for the weaknesses and sins that I have seemed to pass along to my children. This week we are going to find a lot of comfort from Romans 5:12-21 that Christ is more powerful than our parental sin. He can make a generational change to us and our future family! His grace is greater than our sin whether we have ki...

God’s timing is perfect. It may not always feel this way, but may I encourage you with a gospel verse? This Sunday, we are going to study Romans 5:6-11. These verses are pregnant with spiritual life. Paul starts out reminding us that while we were weak, this weakness is not about physical strength, but moral strength. You could paraphrase, while we were morally disabled, just at the right time, Ch...

I hope you had a good Easter weekend last week and you are still joyful that Jesus died and rose from the grave for you. This Sunday we are going to see some practical implications of Jesus being delivered up for our transgressions and raised for our justification from Romans 5:1-5.

He has risen! Christ has risen indeed! This weekend we are focusing on what Christ did for us through just a few verses in Romans 4:23-25. Why not read and memorize to hide in your heart? Jesus was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification!

How did people get saved before Christ came? That is one of the big questions that we will be discovering this coming Sunday from Romans 4:1-23 and it has relevance to us now because we can easily fall into the same patten of thinking as to how we get saved today. Do we have to perform certain rituals to be saved? Do we have to do a bunch of good works to prove we are saved? Could I challenge you...

How are you responding to God’s mercy to your sin? Trying to take advantage of it? (That won’t work!) Thankful to God and showing it in your faithful obedience? May God be praised! On Sunday we will be looking at these questions and more as we study Romans 3:21-31.

Are humans basically good? We hear this often. People just need to channel the good from within. They point to all the good in the world. This week I would challenge you to read, study and then come listen on Sunday as we preach from Romans 3 to see things from God’s perspective. I think some of you will find this shocking and believe all of us will find it helpful and hopeful.

It's here! Our Annual Celebration Sunday where we look back at all God did in the previous year and seek the Lord for the coming year in both direction and provision. The team has worked hard to provide a very engaging Annual Celebration. You may have noticed the ramp up to the Annual Celebration as we shared testimonies these last few Sundays. New this year, is a focus on our vision in the mo...

What are the dangers of judging others? We might be wrong as we don’t know the whole story? We might make too harsh or too soft a judgment? We don’t like to be judged ourselves? We may develop a critical spirit? This may all be true, but Sunday we are going to learn about the dangers of judging others from Romans 2:1-11. More importantly, we are going to see God’s measure for judging and why He de...

Imagine you’re an artist! You create a beautiful masterpiece and decide to share it with some new people so they can enjoy it as well. The hope is that a friendship would begin based on a mutual love of fellowship and beauty. Not only do your new acquaintances not appreciate your art, but they also want nothing to do with you. Instead of wanting to get to know you more, the new acquaintances think...

Have you ever been ashamed of the gospel? I can recall several times in my life when I have shared the Good News of Jesus Christ that I tried listening to myself as I talked and thought that people must think I am crazy. I am describing my belief that I am placing my whole life on the fact that a poor Jewish carpenter was crucified on a Roman Cross nearly 2000 years ago and rose from the grave bec...

All the snow we have had this winter reminds me of the snow we used to receive here in Ontario when I was a kid. Wow! It takes a lot for us to cancel our worship services, but we were concerned about your safety this past Sunday, so we made the hard decision to cancel our worship service. What made it more difficult was that we were going to have baptisms and child dedications on Sunday. But somet...

If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one book of the Bible, what would it be? This would be a hard choice. My choice would be the Letter to the Romans because it teaches me so much about God no matter how many times I have read it. We start this Sunday studying Romans and may God use it mightily in our lives to transform us to become more like Christ. What Book of the Bible...

If you knew someone was coming to replace you, how would you prepare for them? What needs would you make sure you met for them so they would get off to a good start in their new role? How would you get your co-workers and friends ready? It has been said that there is no success without good succession. No wonder some experts suggest that you should start preparing for your successor the moment you...

Why did Jesus save you? There are a lot of reasons God saved you! Before I focus on why God saved you, let’s focus on some common misconceptions why God didn’t save you. God didn’t save because He needs you. The triune God is sufficient unto Himself. God didn’t need to create us human beings because He needed our love or our service or our praise. God also didn’t save us because He saw that we wou...

As we begin this new year, our focus is to watch your life and doctrine closely. Who discipled you in the ways of the Lord? As I reflect on my life, I am thankful for the many disciplers in my life. Who discipled you? I would love for you to email me at info@templebaptistchurch.ca and let me know who discipled you and how. Also, who are you discipling? This will be the focus as we study Titus 2 th...

As we begin this new year, our focus is to watch your life and doctrine closely. What do you look for in a church leader? Do you look for one who loves Jesus? Who has integrity and is faithful in all areas of life? Who leads their home in the ways of Jesus? Who cares for you individually? Who sees the big picture for the church? Who teaches the Bible well? This Sunday, we are going to learn what t...