Toronto Alliance Church

G Campbell Morgan, a great Bible scholar and preacher from generations past, has a book called Great Chapters of the Bible. We like to think any chapter in the Bible is a good chapter, but he picked about two dozen great chapters of the Bible. And he writes this about the letter to the Philippians. "The letter to the Philippians is unique among the writings of Paul in the personal note which...

I wonder what you'd say if you were given the opportunity to see the coming years of the future of the world, right to the very end in detail. I think most of us would probably say "no thanks", a natural reaction. Many folks conjecture about days to come, but there's only one that knows. That's God. And though we're reticent to go down that path, God wants us to know, and he shares his secrets wit...

On steep mountain roads they add these runaway ramps. These are are especially for big trucks going down hill in case they lose their brakes. The only way to avoid perishing with all that momentum is to drive up these ramps where the truck gets quickly bogged down in soft gravel and slows them down. When we look at world events, do we feel that way, like a truck going down? Do we wonder whether an...

The goal of an interviewer in a job interview is not to know what you think or hope you can do or what one day with education and experience you will do. They want to know, like right now what can you do? I think we struggle when considering what God is able to do. There's a kids song that goes, "God can do anything, anything, anything, but fail." He can't fail, he can do anything. But when you lo...

I want you to think for a minute. What right now is your greatest anxiety? Is it for finances? Maybe your children? Maybe politics? Maybe you're lonely? Are you dealing with mental health or physical health, finances, overwhelm. We certainly have a lot of choice for what we could be very anxious about today, don't we? If you can think of something, well, you're not alone, I sure can think of a lot...

What do you know about bulldogs? They have short stubby legs, they go back and forth, they're built like a rock, they've got funny scrunched up faces and they're unmistakable. But what bulldogs are known for in particular is their tenacity and courage. It's like they know no fear and when they latch onto something, they don't let go. I was thinking about that when it comes to faith. To have a bull...

God loves people too much to leave them in their state. That's true with all of us. What great things God will do to win a person. The Bible says that nothing is impossible with God. But maybe what seems most impossible is that people set in their ways, people quite close to us, who give God no time of day, would ever repent and turn and yield themselves fully before God and give him glory. Maybe...

We say God is in control and so we should, because the Bible shows clearly that God sets the direction for something, he says it in advance and he goes about accomplishing it. Even in the present day. But sometimes our faith gets rattled because we look at the news or our own personal lives, and we read between the lines and andother mantra seems to takes over. But I think we're looking at the wro...

I wanna talk today about how to have power with God. Power generally is a very desirable thing here on Earth. People scramble after it. And we need it because we feel weakness and dependence in practically everything we do. We need power from God. But power is a tricky thing because as much as people hanker after power it can be very destructive. We see it in the news, reminders of the destructive...

I think current events make people feel a lot of uncertainty. It can manifest as anger or despair; I definitely hear of fear which goes further into emotional struggles, where there are tremors in our soul. Even still we say that God is in control, and so we should, because he is in control. He's working things according to his purposes and plan as Scripture says. He's always been doing that and h...

I'm going to say a phrase and I want you to take note of the first thing that comes to mind. What do you think of when you think of God as your father? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? In our advent series this year we have been going through what is in a name and specifically what is in the names that were given to Jesus when he was prophesied years and years and years before what...

What's in a name. The more we know a person, their name becomes rich, multicolored, multi-faceted. When the name comes up, it evokes many memories, thoughts. I've been married to my wife many years. When I hear her name, immediately I have thoughts that make me smile or laugh straight out, some evoke admiration and gratitude. Even our differences have given way to richness. All that right within a...

What's in a name?" In Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", Juliet is separated from Romeo because of a blood feud and he bears the wrong family name. In her mind, if he had a different name, he'd be the same person but the wall separating them would be gone. "What's in a name" - the name is nothing. But in the Christmas story, for the person of the Christ, the name is everything. During advent,...

We've been walking through Ephesians in this sermon series called "God's playbook for his purposes on Earth". And today we're right at the end. We should be doing Advent sermons, that's what I really want to be hearing from the front at this time of the year. But we're gonna finish off our series and it's a longer advent season this year anyway. We're in Ephesians 6. This famous spiritual warfare...