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We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! You are free in Christ — but that word free might not mean what you think it means. This week on NorthWord we're sitting with what true freedom actually looks like, and why doing what you like and doing what is right are not the same thing. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  What does it mean to believe when you haven't seen? On this Second Sunday of Easter, Father Aaron preaches from John 20 and the story of Thomas — and makes the case that faith is not a feeling you leap into, but evidence you stand on. From Abraham to Moses, from David to the resurrection, God said it and God did it. Live by the script.  Support the s...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Before you walk into worship tomorrow, Father Aaron gathers the threads of the week and offers a word about coming to Sunday not with performance, but with an open and honest heart. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Where did you learn who Jesus is? Father Aaron sits with Pilate's question and invites listeners into a simple but honest practice heading into the weekend — one that asks what you are still holding back. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Father Aaron sits down with Rev. Jeremiah Raible, Assistant District Superintendent with the ABNWT District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, for a conversation on the daily practice of evangelism. Jeremiah is a passionate leader who believes the church is the hope of the world — and in this episode he challenges us to engage in the only mission Je...

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Easter is not just about forgiveness — it is about restoration. Father Aaron draws on St. Irenaeus and St. Augustine to unpack what it means that the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and what the resurrection is truly offering you. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Midweek is where the Easter feeling often fades — and that is okay. Father Aaron offers a short, honest word for the Wednesday of Easter week. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! A program is something you do. A relationship is someone reaching into your life to do something to you. Father Aaron explores what it means to live faith as a living relationship with the risen Christ rather than a system to manage. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  There is a difference between changing your behaviour and actually being transformed — and that difference is everything. Father Aaron opens Easter week with the image of the dry drunk, and the question of what real change actually requires. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! This is the Easter Sunday sermon from St. John's Fort Smith. Father Aaron preaches on what the empty tomb really means — not just as history, but as a living reality for the quiet emptiness inside you right now. The risen Christ doesn't want your belief. He wants your heart. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Black Saturday is the day nothing happened — and that's exactly why it's so hard. Father Aaron sits in the silence between the cross and the empty tomb, and asks what devotion looks like when it's stripped of everything else. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Good Friday is not designed to make you feel inspired — it's designed to make you honest. Father Aaron brings the week's central refrain to the foot of the cross. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Tonight Jesus washes the feet of the man who will deny him — knowing exactly what Judas has done and what Peter is about to do. Father Aaron reflects on what devotion looks like when it's made flesh. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Today is Spy Wednesday — the day tradition marks Judas's quiet arrangement with the chief priests. Father Aaron reflects on how the big compromises rarely arrive as big ones. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  We get swayed in our relationships, our work, our faith — quietly, gently, like a boat we didn't notice had moved. Father Aaron brings the sermon's challenge into the specific places we drift. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  The crowd on Palm Sunday didn't fall because they were bad people — they fell because their picture of Jesus was built on what they wanted him to be. Father Aaron re-enters the sermon's central tension as Holy Week begins. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text!  Palm Sunday opens Holy Week with a striking reversal — the same crowd that cried Hosanna would cry Crucify. Father Aaron preaches on what untethers us from the real Jesus, and what it means to be anchored by devotion rather than driven by emotion. From St. John's Fort Smith.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Tomorrow the crowds wave palms and cry Hosanna — and most of them don't understand what's coming. Father Aaron gathers the five valleys of Lent and asks: which darkness are your eyes still adjusted to? Bring it to the cross. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! On Sunday Father Aaron closed with this: "Not your resolution. Not your performance. Your surrender." Today he gives the week a specific practice — something physical to do this weekend before Palm Sunday. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! What makes you fully yourself! Found out how sin is keeping you from being fully yourself! Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Today the Church pauses Lent to celebrate the feast of the Annunciation — the moment Mary said yes, and the incarnation began. Father Aaron reflects on what her open hand has to do with everything we've been talking about this week. Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Two words in Romans 6 carry the weight of the entire gospel — "but now." Father Aaron pauses at the midpoint of the week to sit with the turn Paul makes, and to ask: which side of "but now" are you living on today? Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! If all you have is salt water and you drink it, you won't be satisfied — you'll be thirstier.  Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! On Sunday Father Aaron opened with a mineshaft outside Yellowknife — a picture of how darkness becomes normal when we adjust to it one step at a time. Today we re-enter that image and ask the week's hardest question: what do you reach for first? Support the show

We want to hear from You! Send us a Text! Passion Sunday. We enter the final week of our Lenten series with Romans 6:15–23 and the question underneath every valley: who is your master? Father Aaron preaches on slavery, surrender, and the only gift that wages can never buy. Support the show