Sermons

Full Justice

Can the victims of bullies ever really get justice or do they just remain victims forever. No, this other world shows clearly that justice is coming for the victims and their bu...

A New Hope

In coming of age stories, often there are issues of power. The world of the up and comer seems overwhelmingly powerful and the choice seems to be, join in with the system of opp...

Promise of Peace

When our everyday life feels too chaotic for us to handle, we need someone outside of the chaos to help us navigate and to give us hope. What is real? Are our lives hopelessly o...

Back to Basics

In many coming of age stories, the protagonist is taken to a different land or world in order to learn something about themselves. This self-knowledge and character development ...

An Unusual Christ for Unusual Times

What does God do when the life of his people is in utter chaos? Does he leave them to reread His word, written long ago? No, He draws close to his people and gives them a new vi...

Acceptable Offering

Often the church approaches the topic of giving by summarizing the biblical mandate to give 10% of our income. This teaching focuses on duty which mars the heart of what it mean...

The Church as Martyr

Fear can hold us back from stepping out of our churches and homes with the good news of the kingdom. Prayer and the Spirit are key to us taking up our missional calling.

The Church as Healer

What is service to God? Often the evangelical church equates serving in the church with service to God. This is certainly one way to serve God, but ultimately it can slide into ...

The Church as Outpost

In Christendom, it was assumed that Jesus resided inside the church building. If people wanted to encounter the holy they should go to the church. In post-Christian society, Jes...

The Purpose of the Church

How is a world that has rejected God supposed to know God? The church is God’s icon. Through the church, the world receives a taste of the kingdom of God. This is what it means ...

The Action of the Church

Too often we put the activity of the church into an “either/or” situation. Either we preach the gospel of Jesus or we care for the poor and the marginalized. But, when we proper...

The Science of Church

During Christendom, it was assumed that the mission of the kingdom of God was complete. Therefore, all that was left to do was worship. However, we are now in a post-Christian w...

Eye On the Prize

Actively Responding

We have engaged in the holy discipline of listening to the other. Now we want to discern how to respond. Faith without works is dead says James and Jesus say salvation has arriv...

Identity

How the world views us and how we view the world is shaped by a number of factors with one of them being race. We will explore the discrimination and microaggressions that peopl...

When Did We See You…? Don’t You Wanna Know What I Think?

In Matthew 25 Jesus compares two kingdoms, the one ruled by Satan and the other by God. Jesus always went to where the pain is and identifies with the least of these.

Finding the Light of the World Within a Sacred Worldview

Pastor Nick will help us to understand better why Indigenous people are so hostile to the (colonial) gospel. Then he will move us through the context of John’s Gospel to help us...

Thou Shalt Not Other

For many, the George Floyd video finally and irrefutably revealed the ugly face of anti-black racism. And it’s not just a US issue. What is a biblically-appropriate respon...

Peace Isn’t Passive

Like it or not we are living through a time where issues of continued racism in Canada and the U.S. have come to the fore. The church cannot turn a blind eye to it or simply wis...

World’s Yoke Vs. God’s Yoke

Amid COVID-19 our denomination, the Free Methodist Church in Canada, has sensed the need for her pastors to find some rest. So, they have put together a service to allow us to p...