2020 Sermon Archive
We finish off our series on the women in Matthew's genealogy. I make a case for Bathsheba's innocence and we look at what makes Mary a truly remarkable woman.
We continue in our Advent series through the lives of the women in Matthew's genealogy. Please note that, due to technical difficulties, the audio and video ...
Our regional minister speaks on three paradoxes in the Christmas story: the virgin birth, great joy in great tragedy, and great value given to people conside...
We begin a new series for Advent that looks at the women in Matthew's genealogy. We begin with the story of Tamar, a woman who took desperate action in the f...
We look at how Jesus is the answer to the problem of injustice in this world--a promise God made to his people through Malachi and kept. We also look at God'...
We take on the second half of the second section of the book of Malachi. In particular, we look at why God uses such graphic language to warn the priests and...
We start a new series on Malachi. We work through the first one-and-a-half sections of the book (chapter 1). In particular, we explain why the text says that...
To get to the heart of the question, "Do we matter?", we look at reasons for valuing human life regardless of gender, skin colour, or performance. We reach t...
We look at four basic families of arguments for God's existence. We also talk about what use these arguments are for you and everyone else.
To answer the question, 'does God still matter,' we look at Nietzsche, Russel, Pascal, and the author of Ecclesiastes. After considering what they say, we fi...
We look "under the hood" of the Bible and point out the original languages, the early translations, the transmission of the text, the canonization of the tex...
We offer some practical advice for discipling one another as a local body of believers during Covid. *Unfortunately, the audio quality is low and is out of s...
We begin a new series on discipleship. In this sermon, we consider the differences between being a disciple and being a consumer and, looking at Jesus' examp...
We do our best to unravel the densely woven final chapter of 1 John.
We look at what it means for God to be love and what that means for how we treat one another.
We look at what prophecy is and how to be on the look out for false prophets.
We take a look at the grisly story of Cain and Abel and contrast Cain's hatred with the love we are to show by our actions.
We talk about what it means to be a child of God. We also put some difficult verses into their proper context.
We look at what it means to not love the things of this world (while still loving people). We also root out bad theology about the Antichrist.
We look at how we cannot claim to follow Jesus without obeying his commands.
We look at what it means to say, "God is light."
In our first physical meeting since the outbreak of Covid-19 (observing social distancing!), we look at the story of how God's people began the process of re...
In this sermon we look at the power of the tongue for good or for evil and the need to weigh our words carefully.
We look at what Proverbs says about how to get money, how to lose it, about wealth and security, about how rotten it is to be poor, but how much even being poor is better than other things, about how to treat the poor, and the fact that devoting your life to pursuing wealth is not a good idea. We conclude with how to pray about wealth.
In light of the racial tensions in the USA, we look at the intersection between the idea of justice in the book of Proverbs, racial injustice in Alberta, Can...
We begin with a bird's eye view of parenting and then focus in on what Proverbs says about the foundation of parenting, parenting and finances, instruction, ...