Trails Church Base Camp

In this episode, we discuss both debt and future savings in our pursuit of learning how to become more faithful stewards. For more info on The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we discuss various lifestyle decisions that Christians make and how that shapes how we spend money which reveals our values. For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

This recording is a summary of our Member Meeting from March 8, 2023.  In this meeting, we heard a brief message from Matt Woodmass, along with some updates in our church, heard testimonies from Chris and Anabelle Wold, shared prayer requests and prayed for one another (not recorded), sang together (not recorded) and shared a financial update.   For more information about The Trails, ple...

This sermon was originally preached at Trinity Fellowship by one of our Pastors and in it, we discuss what it means to follow Jesus. For more information about the Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode of Basecamp, Pastor Matt spends some time helping us think through various theological doctrines and how to organize first, second and third order differences between Christians.   For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we continue our study called "Faithful Stewards" as we tackle the topic of how giving is a grace. For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we continue our Faithful Stewards Episode Series For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

This sermon was originally preached at Trinity Fellowship during a series through the gospel according to Matthew.  In this sermon, we discuss Matthew 7:12-20 and the two gates, paths and preachers calling for us to come through these gates. For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we continue our series on being faithful stewards by considering the call to faithfulness. for more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

Have you ever heard the phrase, “you can’t judge me!” Maybe it was used as a trump card against you when all you were trying to do was warn someone that their behavior dishonoured God. And maybe you deduced that they were right.  Maybe it’s not your place to judge them.  Maybe you need to let them live their truth.  Maybe it’s not your place … I mean, the Bible even says not to judg...

This sermon continues our Faithful Stewards episode series with a sermon about living for better rewards. For more information about The Trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

This is a recording of our January Member Meeting, where we announce some exciting things happening around The Trails; specifically, we are launching some new platforms to help with discipleship and also are going to be sending out our FIRST CHURCH PLANT later on this year.   For more information about The Trails, check out: trailschurch.ca 

In this episode series, we begin discussing that it means to be a faithful steward and how we can leverage our lives as Christians for the glory of God in every area of life. For more information, check out: trailschurch.ca

In this final episode of our series on suffering, we talk about contentment and its role in our lives as Christians as we walk through suffering. For more information on The Trails, pleas visit: trailschurch.ca

in this episode, we continue our study on suffering by exploring how Christians suffer in various ways for our faith and we aim to expand our definition of persecution to reflect how the Bible defines this word to explain some of the sufferings we walk through as Christians, on account of the Word.  For more information on The Trails, check out: trailschurch.ca

in this episode, we continue our study on suffering by exploring how our suffering puts on display the power of the Gospel in ways that bring glory to God. For more information on The Trails, check out: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we discuss a few principles to follow as we come alongside of others in their suffering. To learn more about the trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we discuss how to help others fight for faith while walking through suffering in practical ways.   To learn more about the trails, please visit: trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we discuss how we can fight for faith in the midst of suffering. For more information about the trails, please check out trailschurch.ca

In this episode, we talk about some common ways that Christians respond to suffering that are unbiblical.

In this episode, we talk about the suffering of Jesus and the comfort we have in having a God who can sympathize and empathize in our sufferings.  He is not a God who is removed from our suffering, but who walks, immanently, with us as His people.  And because of Jesus' suffering, we are saved and forgiven - and we also have comfort and encouragement in our daily suffering. 

In this episode, we continue our mini series on suffering and, in this episode, we think through two days: "this" day and "that" day - the future Day promised where there are no more funerals, sickness and suffering for the Christian and how this hope emboldens us to live in "this" day with comfort and assurance

In this episode, we are continuing our study on suffering in the life of the Christian and processing through eight outcomes of suffering in our lives: Suffering is used by God to grow us in holiness Suffering is used by God to build perseverance (or endurance) The third way that God uses suffering in our lives as Christians is to grow us in maturity Fourthly, God uses suffering to teach us His wo...

This podcast series on suffering comes from a very specific understanding that ideas have consequences and that theology really does matter - what someone believes really shapes how they view God, how they view themselves, and how they walk through their lives. This podcast is for those of you questioning your faith because you were taught that God was like a divine vending machine ...  if yo...

Welcome back to BaseCamp and to this episode where we are diving back into our discussions in Systematic Theology. And, today, we come to the last episode in discussing the order of salvation - or, as we have been talking about, the behind the scenes look at how we became Christians; our spiritual birth stories, we might say - and how God has been planning, working out, securing and applying our s...