Sermons
Prodigal God: The Request: Judgement = Grace
Too often we view God as angry and punishing. When we do, all of his actions appear to be judgment. However, the truth is that God’s judgment on our sin is in fact his grace in ...
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Rejoice: Keep Moving Forward
So many things can get in our way of pursuing our life in Christ. Paul’s sage advice is to keep moving forward with a single-minded focus. Don’t let anything get in the way of f...
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Rejoice: Give It All Up
Christians often have a bad reputation because we can be negative about the human person. Of course, proper Christianity has nothing to do with hating people. What we are emphas...
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Rejoice: Work It Out
Salvation is a free gift of God that cannot be earned. It comes through faith in Christ alone. However, we still have an active role to play. We must participate with God’s grac...
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Rejoice: “Running on Empty”
Christianity is not simply a collection of truths to be believed. Nor is it all about how a person can get to heaven after they die. Instead, Christianity is a whole new way of ...
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Rejoice: “He Took the Road Less Travelled”
Life has a way of dishing out some pretty difficult and restricting circumstances. Unexpected events, dashed dreams, opportunities hindered by restrictions beyond our control, a...
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Rejoice: “Abounding Love”
As we continue to consider what it means to pursue our mission to “embody Jesus in our neighbourhoods,” we turn to a small letter from the apostle Paul to the churches in Philip...
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Praying God: “Glorifying God”
Basic prayer is usually about us. God our Father, in His grace, invites us to simply cry out to him. But, ultimately we are invited to have our prayer mature. There is still an ...
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Praying God: “Following God”
Christianity is not a static religion. We do not decide to be a Christian, say a prayer and then continue living our same old life. Christianity is a dynamic lifestyle. We pursu...
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Praying God: “Receiving God”
Too often we have reduced God to a cosmic Judge: we have violated his law, so we must make restitution. Without putting that completely aside, it is better to understand prayer ...
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Praying God: “Trusting God”
“God can’t be trusted.” This is the lie at the centre of all our sin. That conviction also leads us to believe that resources are scarce. As a result we do not trust each other ...
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Praying God: “Seeking God”
What does it look like when God’s kingdom comes to the world? It looks like heaven on earth. The heart of this prayer is that God’s good heavenly rule (government) will also be ...
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Praying God: “Honouring God”
To hallow God’s name means to treat God himself as holy. This is more than a wish, it is an agreement and a personal determination to honour God with our lives. This is critical...
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Praxis: “Radical Hospitality”
Most of us recognize the obligation we have to care for our family and perhaps even our close friends. Beyond that we know that it is good to be charitable and we encourage good...
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Praxis: “Make Love, Not War”
Nonviolence is more than not taking up arms in times of conflict. Like all these praxes, nonviolence is a way of life determined by the cross. Jesus himself does not take up arm...
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Praxis: “Submission for Service”
While Canada isn’t a class system type of culture, most of us want to be taken seriously and treated with respect. In order to have this we find it necessary to present ourselve...
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Praxis: “Wasting Time With Worship”
Marva Dawn begins her book, A Royal “Waste” of Time, saying: “To worship the Lord is—in the world’s eyes—a waste of time. It is, indeed, a royal waste of time, but a waste nonet...
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Praxis: Witnessing About an Odd God
God seems determined to remain hidden. Where we would expect powerful revelation to motivate belief, we follow three kids onto a mountainside who come away with a secret. This p...
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Praxis: Telling the Truth…Even If It Kills Us
Jesus told the truth and he was crucified for it. The world runs on lies. We lie to ourselves, we lie to each other, and we lie to God. We believe we cannot survive without lyin...
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Raising Hope: Integrity
Integrity is a virtue that means I live out the same character in private as I portray in public. Who we are to our neighbours and who we are with Northview must be lived out in...
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