Bởi Todd Petkau

Bởi Todd Petkau

Bởi Todd Petkau

Bởi Todd Petkau

In the beginning God’s intention for humanity was that we enjoy him forever. However, endowed with free will we read in the book of Genesis that Adam and Eve sinned, which brought about a break in fellowship with God. Redemption is the story of God's loving response to humanity's sin by sending his son to forgive us and call us back into a relation…

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Bởi Todd Petkau

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Bởi Todd Petkau

Bởi Todd Petkau

**This message is best enjoyed on video. Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpIyPrUXljw Join us this weekend as we screen a documentary about one of our former Swazi kids! Thokozani (TK) grew up in Eswatini and had God-given dreams for the future that he gave up as he reached adulthood. TK gives a real insight into how it’s not that kids can…

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Bởi Todd Petkau

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Bởi Todd Petkau

Bởi Todd Petkau

Most people have this idea that catechism is Catholic, boring and irrelevant, however the truth couldn’t be more shocking! In this message we will discover the history behind catechism, the power of the idea as it appears in the New Testament and no less than six potent reasons why journeying through catechism is worthy of our next 52 weeks!…

If you stand so close to a mural painted on the side of the building, all you see are some colorful smudges and brush strokes that are hard to discern. However, if you step back (way back) you begin to see the bigger picture. In this message, we’ll join Paul in a prison cell, being persecuted for his faith. We’ll listen to his advice for those faci…

While we may find ourselves deeply connected to our world and culture, when we give our lives to Jesus it's like we’re living in this space between the world and the Kingdom of God, and that space is called exile. In this message, we dive into the time of the Babylonian exile and will learn from the remarkable resilience of Daniel and his friends a…

Most Christians can feel the ground shifting beneath their feet. They can sense an unsettledness in the air and a stirring on the horizon but lack the courage to talk about what they are feeling or the words to describe what they are seeing. In this message we will join Paul in Athens in Acts 17, observing how he responded to a culture that was opp…

Vision is often wispy, grainy pictures that flash through our minds and are easily lost. However, God instructs us to write-down-the-vision so that those who hold it may run with it! But this doesn’t mean visions are easy to catch or manage! People who see or hear a vision are often side-swiped and feel the crunch of what we’re calling ‘vision coll…

Admittedly, as a church, we haven’t done a great job of mapping a path for people who want to journey closer to Christ. That changes this year! In Part 2 of our Vision Weekend, we review the strategy rolled out last weekend and move on to focus on how it is that we will ‘make disciples of Jesus’ (Matt. 28:19). Our answer is a strategy we’re simply …

People aren’t limited by their abilities but by their lack of vision! Yet, when God projects a compelling vision before His people and His people commit themselves to that vision, the limits are lifted and the impossible becomes reality! In this message, we will take time to reflect, confess, study, and allow our hearts to be ignited by the vision …

There is nothing quite like gathering all of our Worship Communities together in one place to worship outdoors! The park offers us some unique opportunities to connect, worship, picnic, and go public with our faith! This year was no exception and we took a few minutes to simply focus on the wonder of Jesus and the lengths He went to make a way for …

Have you struggled with unanswered prayers? Have you felt like God is silent? In this message, we will hear about the journey of 2 people who struggled with God's apparent silence, as well as some reasons why our prayers might not be answered, and what our response can be.

Peter and John could feel the tension. The culture had turned on them! They were outnumbered and heavily opposed. So, what do they pray for? Protection? Victory? Vindication? A rescue? No! They pray for boldness! This message examines what leads to one of the most inspiring prayers in the Bible, found in Acts chapter 4, and a recipe for boldness!…

Do you ever wonder what God’s plan and purpose is for your life? This week we’ll break down Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane and how despite the agonizing anticipation of carrying the cross, he still asked for God’s will to be done in his life. Jesus warned us that faithfully following God’s will isn’t easy... But when our prayer lives bec…

Prayer is essential in the life of every believer, however, so often we find prayer to be a struggle! Today we will discover two tools we can use to fuel our prayer life found in the unconventional prayer of Agur!

Have you ever been called by God and wondered if you had what it took to do what He was asking you to do? God called Gideon to step out of his comfort zone and gather an army to defeat the Midianites. After much doubt and deliberation, Gideon said yes to God. At some point or another, God calls all of us to take a step of faith into the unknown. It…

Do you ever look at contemporary art that is worth millions of dollars and think “I don’t get it”? It’s interesting how what some consider masterpieces leave others bewildered, much like the most famous prayer in the Bible: The Lord’s Prayer. However, hidden within it lies a profound message that causes our hearts to answer questions that have the …

A simple 4-word prayer that we can choose to pray either with a passive, one day in the future sentiment or an active, heaven invading earth activistic earnestness. Together we explore just what picture is painted for us in the last words of our Bible found in Revelation 22 and how a powerful prayer emerges for us should we have the courage to embr…

Do you feel weak these days? Do you doubt God’s love? Are you missing life & power in your day-to-day experiences? The Apostle Paul guides us through a prayer that he prayed for a group of people in the 1st century who were most likely experiencing these very things. Listen to what he prayed for them. It’s a prayer that we should regularly pray tod…

Two words to describe Elijah would be ‘Effective Pray-er’! Wow! This guy had a track record of praying fiery, bold prayers that seemed to move heaven to act on earth! So, what made Elijah’s prayers so effective? Well, this message digs into Elijah’s life from 1 Kings 17-19 to reveal seven ways to make prayer effective!…

Of the 222 prayers recorded in the Bible, Peter’s 15-word prayer, recorded in Matthew 14, was the one that excited me the least! However, what it lacks in length, poise, grandeur, and nobility it makes up for in raw passion, authenticity, and results! There is a lot to learn from this little prayer, especially if you happen to be experiencing a sto…

Unmet desires and unanswered prayers can bring a significant amount of pain to our lives, yet Hannah’s life in 1 Samuel demonstrates a way to express our pain to God, be persistent in our requests, and stay faithful in our promises. Along the way, we might just find that not only our future changes but our own lives are transformed.…

Prayer should be the lifeline of every Christian, nevertheless, in life there are conflicts that occur that affect our prayer life, making prayer a struggle! We will explore the details in Jonah’s life that made him struggle to pray and the relentless pursuit of God for his prayers to find out why prayer is so valuable within our daily lives!…

This message takes one of the most overused, confused, misused, and abused words: ‘love’, explores its origins, its place in our current culture, and the reason human love is so limited. It then examines the unique properties and power of a different kind of love: agape!

If relationship phrases like ‘synthetic-relationships’, ‘a knife-in-the-back-of-our-own-selfishness’, ‘out-honouring-others’, and ‘taking-a-relational-laxative’ are unfamiliar to you, then this message from 2 Peter 1:6, Romans 12:10 and 1 Peter 1:22 may be just what you need!

As we attempt to understand the 5th element in Peter’s ‘formula for godly living’, we quickly realize that this idea of ‘godliness’ is somewhat nebulous, antiquated, and difficult to define! In this message, we take on the challenge of defining and taking a firm grip on what it means to be godly as we continue our study in 2 Peter 1:5-9!…

Most of us would define ‘perseverance’ as ‘enduring the unpleasant’ with a side of ‘putting up with the painful’. However, as you’re about to discover in this message from 2 Peter 1:6, God’s definition of perseverance is so much more than simply grinning and bearing it! With stories and examples of perseverance, this message will take you from Japa…

To grasp the value and role “self-control” plays within our everyday lives we need to have a clear picture of what God desires for us. This weekend we will dive deeper into 2 Peter 1:3-4 to create a formula to help us understand God’s plan and our role in it! With the formula, we will also have a better understanding of our need to develop self-con…

If you were to sit down to test your knowledge of God, how well do you think you would do? Many of us would panic thinking, I can’t recite the books of the Bible or name the attributes of God or explain ‘the abomination of desolation’! But that is not the kind of ‘knowledge’ God is calling us to! This message, based on 2 Peter 1:6, explores what ‘k…

In 2 Peter 1, the apostle Peter lets us know that floating and bobbing in our faith will only lead to us being carried away by the currents of culture, so he provided us with a formula! It’s a formula for following. A formula for a godly life. However, before we can actually learn the formula, we need to lay a foundation. Join us as we do a deep di…

This weekend our middle school and high school students took over leading the service! Leading everything from tech, to worship, to preaching, they explore how to cultivate hearts of thankfulness for who God is, how he works in our lives, and challenge us to make praises to him known to our world.