Temple Cambridge

Have you ever felt like you have been exiled? That you are an outcast for your belief in Jesus? If so, then you belong to a kingdom in this world, but not of this world. You are exactly where God wants you. It begs the question, how should we live in this hostile world where we no longer belong? With hope! A living hope! A hope in Jesus Christ! This is what we will find as we begin a new series in...

Every year our leadership team gathers in the summer to seek the Lord as to what God would have us to learn in the coming year. We talk about what texts and topics to study. We do this because we believe that we want to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to make disciples. This is the mission: to make disciples. To make disciples we have studied the Scriptures and determined what are the core competen...

Happy New Year! This Sunday, we are doing something different. Pastor Steve Limmer will be leading us from Philippians 4:7 and we will be sharing our God Stories. We want you to come ready to share how God blessed you in 2022. This will help us look forward to 2023 to how we can live for Christ with boldness and witness because of His provision and promise to return! This is our theme and goal for...

Merry Christmas! As we conclude our Advent series this week with Peace from Micah 5:1-6, we are reminded that peace is personal. We often think peace is just the absence of conflict, but peace is way more personal. Peace comes from a person. For example, maybe you are not at peace until all your family is at home for Christmas? It bears repeating peace is personal. This means that peace is not a t...

December 24, 2022

One of my big prayers this Christmas for you is, "God, please rest Your merry gentlemen and gentlewomen! Would You please bring tidings (news) of comfort and joy to Your people through Your Son Jesus? In Jesus’ name, Amen!” Rest, comfort and joy fit with what our leadership team set out to teach you this year: how to be content, persevere, and have hope. This is why we tried to teach you a theolog...

Do you like white or coloured Christmas lights more? My wife loves white lights. She likes clean and pure. It is reminder that God is the light of the world. I prefer the coloured lights. Maybe that was because it was what I grew up with? Coloured lights are catchy. It reminds me of another coloured catchy display that you don’t see as much anymore. When I was growing up, there was a guy who would...

I am not sure if you consider this to be the most wonderful time of the year, but it can be. Why? Simply, because of hope found in God. As we begin this advent season, we are going to find our hope in Jesus from Luke 1:26-38. Maybe you are on the verge of losing hope? You are now a prime target for your hope being restored this Christmas! Don’t give up!

“It’s not personal; it’s just business!” Probably none of you work for the mafia, but the mindset can easily creep into our work life. We may be tempted to think that business isn’t God’s business. However, as we will find out from Micah 6:9-16 that God cares a lot about business practices and ethics. Do we?

What does the Lord require of you? To serve Him? Yes, but ... To give to Him and His local church? Yes, but ... To attend church?  Yes, but … To keep His commands? Yes, but … The “but” was added because we can serve, give, assemble and obey, but still miss what the Lord requires of us. The answer is found in Micah 6:1-8 that Pastor Kyle Rhora will be preaching on this Sunday and particularly...

How do you retain your most important relationships? This is especially true when there are so many temptations to avoid and hostilities to overcome in the world. This week we are going to learn how God retains His relationship with us. He is calling out His remnant and removing our idols. It is also our Communion Sunday. We hope to make the Lord’s Supper a richer encounter with the Lord, but this...

One of my wife’s favourite hobbies is to restore old furniture. She loves taking what somebody considers rubbish and restoring it to its former glory or better. She will strip off the paint or varnish, sand it down and then apply a new stain or paint. It is so redemptive. It is a picture of what God does with us and will do with the nations. This is what we will learn this week from Micah 4:8-13....

A few weeks ago, we said good-bye to our beloved Queen and sister-in-Christ Elizabeth. It was a huge answer to prayer to see the gospel clearly presented at her funeral. Though the formal mourning for our Queen is over, there is a still time for grief before we celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. Can you imagine if nobody showed up to King Charle’s coronation? No way! The coronation of K...

What is your favourite movie? One of my favourites is The Return of the King! I love when Aragorn comes to fight and reclaim the Kingdom of Gondor when all seemed lost. Maybe today you feel all is lost? It isn’t! The King is Coming! Jesus will come and end all war. As Pastor Jason Elliotson will unpack Micah 4:15, swords will be no longer needed. They will be turned into plowshares. Only King Jesu...

This weekend is one of the highlights of our year. It is our Global Outreach (GO) weekend where we seek God to expand our hearts for His work around the world. The theme this year is HOPE - Christ for a world in crisis! Our long-time missionaries John & Jackie Taylor will be with us to speak. John is now the President of ABWE Canada. The kids will be having a missions emphasis today. Plan to c...

October 9, 2022

Do you need a breakthrough? Maybe a financial breakthrough from debt and worry? Maybe a relational breakthrough from an estranged loved one? Maybe a breakthrough from a delimitating disease? Maybe you need a breakthrough from a stubborn habit? Meet the One who breaks through - the Lord God! This is what we learn from Micah 2:12-13! And don’t forget to join us at 9 am for the kickoff class of our F...

What is wrong with wanting things? Nothing, unless we are coveting other people’s stuff. This could be as simple as looking at reels on Social Media for ideas to fix up our homes or wardrobes. Or maybe it could be looking at a flyer and discover something that we didn’t know we “needed.” In the prophet Micah’s day, people “cancelled" prophets who were all doom and gloom. The problem with the “posi...

Everything you and I have comes from God. This is hard to remember at times because a lot of our life is spent working and therefore, we think that we have earned what we have. However, God gives us the very breath and strength to work. So what are you doing with what God has given you? This question is always relevant, but it feels like it has a sense of urgency with our high inflation, high inte...

Do you remember where you were when 9/11 happened? For those of us who were alive, it is one of those days imprinted on our brains because of the shocking tragedy. (I know some of you were not alive 21 years ago, but the world you experience now has been a result of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. This is most evident when go to the airport and experience extra security measures.) I vividly recall...

Happy Labour Day Weekend! For many, it is one last taste of summer before the crazy busyness of fall kicks in. Did you have a good summer? What were the highlights? Please email info@templebaptistchurch.ca and let me know some your highlights. Maybe you are carrying around some injustices from the summer? God has been watching and wants to make those right! This is the message we will learn as we...

I have to confess something to you and I know some of you will think less of me! I am afraid of heights! However, others in my family have no such fear and so on occasion, as a dad, I have had to try to overcome that fear so that a fearless child of mine can go on a roller coaster with age and height requirements. One occasion I had to overcome my fear of heights was when most of our family went z...

Wayne Baxter - Jude 1:17-23

How often do you think about the coming judgment? If you are a believer, you have nothing to fear (Romans 8:1). It will be a reward ceremony for you (2 Corinthians 5:10). It will better than any Olympic medal podium ceremony or a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony when we stand before God. (I find it personally mind-blowing that God saves us by His grace after we have rebelled against Him, we then live li...

Do you think we learn more from good examples or bad examples? It would be an interesting survey. I would guess that most of us learn more from bad examples than good examples because we would dismiss the good examples as setting a standard that we could not achieve or we learn that those “good examples” often have done some bad things. As they say, “Don’t meet your heroes, you will only be disapp...