Evangelism: The Damascus Road (video edition)

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Do you have a dramatic conversion story? We often call these “Damascus Road” experiences. But if you look closely, Saul wasn’t a “down and out” sinner who hit rock bottom, which is the core of many “Damascus Road” stories. Rather, Saul was a righteous, moral, Bible thumping religious man! But it took a dramatic intervention by the Spirit for him to realize the depth of his own sin and need for a saviour.

Scripture: Acts 9:1-22

(Recorded for February 16, 2025)

Evangelism: The Damascus Road

PODCAST

Do you have a dramatic conversion story? We often call these “Damascus Road” experiences. But if you look closely, Saul wasn’t a “down and out” sinner who hit rock bottom, which is the core of many “Damascus Road” stories. Rather, Saul was a righteous, moral, Bible thumping religious man! But it took a dramatic intervention by the Spirit for him to realize the depth of his own sin and need for a saviour.

Scripture: Acts 9:1-22

(Recorded for February 16, 2025)

Snow Day

The Church Service for Sunday, February 16 is CANCELED due to the snow.

Pastor Dave has prepared a video of the sermon he was planning to deliver on February 16th.

To watch the video – CLICK HERE

To listen to the audio only edition – CLICK HERE

Please stay home and stay safe,  We will see you next Sunday!

Evangelism: The Road to Gaza

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We’ve been talking about cooperating with the Holy Spirit to help people take steps towards faith in Christ. Today, we will look at a passage about someone many people would have thought “too far from Jesus” top share the gospel with. However, behind the scenes, the Spirit had been using a number of unnamed people and events to bring the Ethiopian Eunuch a long way, clearing rubble, planting seeds and watering them until Philip came to him to reap the Spirit’s harvest.

Scripture: Acts 8:26-40

(Recorded February 9, 2025)

Evangelism: The Road to Emmaus

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This week we are looking at the first of 3 stories Luke tells of people coming to faith in a road- the two on the road to Emmaus. These two were disciples of Jesus. They knew Jesus, knew his teaching and power, and even believed he was the Messiah! But they still needed the Spirit to open their eyes and bring them to faith in Christ. Perhaps you know someone who knows all the stories and believes good things about Jesus, but they have not yet come to faith?

Scripture: Luke 24:13-36

(Recorded February 2, 2025)

Church Membership Classes

February 23, after the church service, we are holding  our first Church Membership Class for this year.

Not sure if membership is right for you?  Talk to Pastor Dave or one of our Deacons.  Come to the first class and ask questions; all the question you want.

Classes will be run by our church Deacons – Evan Wallace and Scott Fraser.

Our Church Song Book

Our Church Song Book

Songs are stories; songs are meaningful.  Do you have a song that’s important and meaningful to you?

We are building a Church Song Book.  Tell our Music Leader (David Park) about your favourite song or a song that is particularly meaningful to you and we will use it in our worship music.  Tell David your story behind that song and why it is important to you and he will share that with the church when we play the song – with your permission, of course.

We’ll try to use one of these special songs each week.  So, contact David after the church service and choose your song.

What is Evangelism?

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We’ve talked about our role as Christ’s ambassadors to the world. This means sharing the good news of God’s rule – God’s love lived out- to those who have not yet surrendered to him. This is called “evangelism”. Yet many people shy away from this word. Many Christians say, “I don’t do evangelism” or “I can’t do evangelism”. This is a shame and reflects that we have turned evangelism into something is ought not to be.

So, we are going to dive into what evangelism actually is: cooperating with the Holy Spirit to help people take steps towards faith in Christ. For some of you this will be a familiar review, but for others it will be new. Let me encourage you to read it either way. I’ve had people reach out to me and comment on how a sermon touched their hearts in new ways even though it was one they had read before.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:5-9

(Recorded January 26, 2025)

Church Calendar for February 2025 is now Available

The Church Calendar for February 2025 is now available.  Pick up your copy at the back of the Church or click on the link below to view or print a copy.

February 2025

Our Values: What Shall We Do?

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God has brought us together as a unique congregation with particular values, gifts and talents. He has placed us in a unique position to reach particular people with his light. Given who we are and who our neighbours are, what shall we do? We are going to brainstorm some mission activities for to set as goals for the next few years.

[Please Note: The audience responses have been edited or removed as they were not audible on the recording.]

Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-10

(Recorded January 19, 2025)