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As we approach Easter, we are going to consider Jesus the Christ. We often speak of Jesus Christ as if Christ were his last name, but Christ is a title, it is a role, not a name! This week we are considering Peter’s famous answer to Jesus’ questions, “Who do you say that I am?” Peter said, “You are the Christ!” But Peter quickly showed that he didn’t know what it meant that Jesus is the Christ or what it means to follow him.

Scripture: 2 Matthew 16:13-24

(Recorded April 6, 2025)

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What do pastors do? Last week, looking at Psalm 23, we see that pastors, as shepherds, have a responsibility to lead and to feed the flock, to protect and correct the flock. What does it look like for a pastor to protect and correct the flock? The fact that we, as Canadians, tend to avoid conflict and confrontation actually makes it much more difficult for pastors to fulfill these roles. But it’s so important that they do! Churches need to be reminded that their pastor has this duty and it’s for the good of the congregation.

Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5

(Recorded March 30, 2025)

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What do pastors do? We see them on Sundays and when they come visit us, but what do they do all week? The word pastor comes from the Latin word for shepherd. We are going to look at Psalm 23 to see what shepherds and pastors should do.

Scripture: Psalm 23:1-4

(Recorded March 23, 2025)

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We’ve come to our final installment on evangelism! The goal of evangelism is for people to take steps toward faith in Christ. But what is “faith in Christ”? It’s a term we often take for granted as Christians. But it’s our goal both for evangelism and for discipleship! So let’s take a closer look at what we are hoping other people will come to and what we will grow deeper in.

Scripture: John 6:37-44, Romans 10:-9-10

(Recorded March 2, 2025)

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As we have been learning about helping people take steps towards faith in Christ, we have been thinking of a particular person we know, our “reach one” person. Why is that? Because when sharing the gospel we must earn the right to be heard. By choosing someone we know, we already have that foundation of relationship upon which to build. We are taking a second look at a familiar passage- Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. We are looking at how Jesus demonstrates principles of evangelism, including earning the right to be heard.

Scripture: John 4:1-42

(Recorded February 23, 2025)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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