Waypoint Podcast

This week Pastor Jermaine continued with our 1 Peter sermon series with Chapter 2: 11-17 under the title of: Tension #thestruggleisreal. In this section of Scripture, Peter is prescribing the Christians a response on what to do when they are criticized for their faith. As Christians, the world needs to see us living honorably; treating every human being, (regardless of their position, political af...

This week, Pastor Matthew led us through 1 Peter 2: 1-10. We need to be people who taste that the Lord is good, and having tasted it, we need to want and crave it more and more. The people that Peter was writing to had been born again. They had heard the Word, and responded. He was encouraging them to continue to study the Word, to read the Word, to devour the Word and to crave the Word. To contin...

This week, Pastor Jermaine led us in the third week of our 1 Peter series with “Light in Dark Times;” a look at chapter 1:13-25. In this passage, Peter looks at three characteristics of a Christ-less life. They are: A life of ignorance A life dominated by desire, and A life characterized by futility Peter is writing in a Roman world where life was futile and there was no eternal life. He is callin...

This week Pastor Jermaine continued our series on 1 Peter with part two: Lights in Dark Times. This book was written by Peter while he was in Rome. Peter (previously named Simon) was one of Jesus’s 12 disciples and wrote this letter to multiple communities of Gentile Christians within Asia Minor. Pastor Jermaine calls us to live our lives courageously - to honor God and have our lives reflect the...

This week Pastor Matthew introduced our 1 Peter series with part one: An Explosion of Praise. This book was written by Peter while he was in Rome. Peter (previously named Simon) was one of Jesus’s 12 disciples and wrote this letter to multiple communities of Gentile Christians within Asia Minor. Pastor Matthew read and took us through the first 12 verses of Chapter 1, in which Peter introduces a t...

This week, Pastor Matthew led us in a sermon called ‘A New World;’ studying the book of Philemon. Philemon shows us that the Gospel is not just about how people get saved, but a message about the Lordship of Jesus and therefore our everyday lives and decisions. Before we are anything else, we are Kingdom people which puts us in partnership with others. This partnership often extends to those who d...

This week, Pastor Jermaine and Pastor Matthew sat down to have a conversation about race in response to the unrest and protests happening around the United States. They spoke about the Biblical process of lament, and how racism is a demonic stronghold in this world. Diversity and change do not happen organically and it takes intentionality to grow and develop in these areas. Therefore we need to l...

This week, Pastor Luke finished up our Wait on God series with 'Wait on God; In Power'. He spoke about courage, and it being not the absence of fear, but action in spite of fear. Courage is rooted in our ability to overcome and press through, and the whole life and ministry of Jesus and His disciples was an example of this kind of faith-filled courage. They possessed this kind of bold courage thro...

This week Pastor Matthew continued on with our ‘Wait on God’ series with ‘Be Filled’. The message centered on Luke 3:16 and the baptism we receive of the Holy Spirit and fire. Like the burning bush, our lives should be consumed with the fire of God: fully alive, but not burnt up. Living in these strange times we need this fire like never before. When we are filled with the Holy Spirit we have: The...

To recognize Mother's Day this week, Amanda Anderson led us in a study on Ruth. Ruth was set in the time of Judges, a time when "everyone did as they saw fit" (Judges 21:25). This is not unlike our current postmodern culture, where personal autonomy rules and the intended authorship of the Bible has often lost its meaning. Amanda led us through the story of Naomi; the loss of her husband and sons,...

This week, Pastor Jermaine continued on with our 'Wait on God' series with part three; Waiting In Prayer: the Secrets Out. His four main points were: - God waits for those who are willing to wait on Him. - God is at work in you in the waiting. - God reveals Himself to those who are willing to wait on Him. - God rewards those who are willing to wait on Him. God can still use you in your messes and...

This week Pastor Luke continued on with week two of our new sermon series with ‘Wait on God; Together.’ He asked and answered the question: How do we as the people of God press into the Spirit of God and allow Him to do a work in us to make us more like Jesus? Because, if we all do this as individuals then we will be ready for what God is doing collectively in our church and in the world. This is...

This week, Pastor Matthew led us in celebrating Easter Sunday with the good news that Jesus is RISEN! He is alive, and because of that we have been extended the greatest invitation of all time; to be freed from our guilt, sin and shame and to know God as Jesus knows God, as intimate children with the Father. The death and resurrection of Jesus broke the power of sin and defeated every evil power a...

Pastor Jermaine take us on a reflective journey through Scripture as we stop and give thanks for the Cross on this Good Friday.

This week Pastor Luke led us in our Palm Sunday service; asking and answering the question of Jesus in Matthew 21:10 "Who is this?" We serve a God who is in control, who is never hurried and whose timing is perfect. We have great hope in this season (and every season!) because our God is a faithful and trustworthy King. We have access to great peace when we are in close proximity to Jesus. This is...

This week Pastor Matthew finished up our Revival series with a sermon on anchoring in. God is not bound by a building and wherever we are He is. He has the ability to refresh our souls in the midst of this crazy season. In times like this what our souls are anchored to will become known. If our lives are anchored to idols such as our sexuality, our nationality, our body image or our personal "righ...

This week Pastor Jermaine shared on the topic of race. He encouraged us as the church to come back to our first love (the Lord) by coming back to what He first loved (the world). He emboldened us to see in color when it comes to compassion and understanding, and beyond color when it comes to love and acceptance. We must see in color because our experiences are so different to one another, and it a...

This week, Pastor Luke led us into the start of a new series called Revival: Reform to Transform. The heart of this series is the prayer of Saint Augustine “Revive thy church, Oh Lord, beginning in me.” The title of his sermon was ‘Preparing the Way of the Lord’ and took us through the life of John the Baptizer. Pastor Luke’s three main points were: You need to exchange your vision for God’s calli...

This week, Pastor Jermaine told his story in the context of Judges 6 and finding himself in the narrative of Scripture, God’s calling and the church. He encouraged us that if we have to, we need to do it afraid and learn to obey in the context of fear.

This week Pastor Matthew finished up our Psalm 23: Life Without Lack series by sharing on the topic of dying to self. His four main points were: - Death to self does not mean death of self - The flesh is not all bad - We all have desires and a Spirit - Desires must not dominate us Dying to self is super important if we are going to live a life without lack. We live in a world where everything is t...

This week Pastor Jermaine led us in a sermon titled 'What's in your hand?' We looked at the story of Moses in Exodus 4, the story of David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17 and the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 in John 6. His emphasis was: Everyone has something in their hand. You can’t use what’s in someone else’s hand. God can use whatever we have in our hands in ways beyon

The same God who led the children of Israel into and through the wilderness - also led Jesus into the wilderness. Dr. Smith shows us the very contrasting responses to very similar tests...

This week, Pastor Matthew continued on with our Psalm 23: Life Without Lack series to talk about faith. He talked about the importance of speaking out our faith, and the synonymous relationship between faith and trust. The good news is that our faith can be transformed into one that allows us to experience God's full sufficiency. This is possible through a movement between three stages of faith: F...

Pastor Luke talks about spiritual warfare and the importance of knowing what is within us as we follow our Good Shepherd.

If we know who our Shepherd is... there is absolutely nothing to fear.