When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

This week, Rob Collis preaches from Acts 8.26-31, which is an instance in the Bible where someone walks up to a random stranger, and starts telling them about Jesus. But when we look closer, we discover he’s just joining a conversation that God’s already been having. Because at the end of the day, God’s the one who’s drawing us to himself – and he invites us to be a part of it.

When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

This week, Rob Collis preaches from Acts 8.26-31, which is an instance in the Bible where someone walks up to a random stranger, and starts telling them about Jesus. But when we look closer, we discover he’s just joining a conversation that God’s already been having. Because at the end of the day, God’s the one who’s drawing us to himself – and he invites us to be a part of it.

When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

More often than not, when people learn about Jesus in the Bible, it’s in the context of an existing relationship with someone they know. This week, Rob Collis preaches from John 1.35-51. In this passage, we see three common relationships people have in life: relationships with mentors, family, and friends – and we see how Jesus comes into those spaces, and enters our relationships to encounter us and the people we already know.  

When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

This week, we are pleased to welcome Sarah Jeung, from the Artizo Institute, who preaches from Acts 10.1-48. In this pivotal moment in the Book of Acts, we see how Peter is led by the Holy Spirit to cross over the normal boundaries of his society, in order to become a faithful witness to the expanding kingdom of God.

When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

This week, Rob preaches from Luke 10.1-12, where Jesus gives his followers an approach for how to be his faithful witnesses. Jesus reframes our perspective of how he is at work in the world around us, and invites us to join in on the conversations he’s already having with the people we meet in our daily lives.

When Jesus calls us to follow him, he doesn’t strong-arm us into believing a certain way. Instead, he exhorts and invites us to join him in his ongoing work of reconciling all things to himself. As we follow in his ways, we can’t keep on living our lives as though nothing has changed. Jesus intends for us to become his faithful witnesses in the world around us: seeing where he is already at work, and helping point him out to the people around us.

This week, Rob begins a new series called Faithful Witness, and preaches from Mark 1.16-20. As we look at the encounter Jesus had when he called his first disciples, we see the pattern for how Jesus calls all people to himself: he calls us to follow him, and promises to make us become something new in him.

For the last two thousand years, people who believe and follow Jesus have made an outrageous claim. It’s a claim that, if true, changes everything we see and know about the world. But if false, well, it means we’re just wasting our time today – and we should just pack up and go home.

On this Easter Sunday, Rob Collis preaches from John 20.1-10, and invites us to explore the claim that Jesus of Nazareth has been raised from the dead. This passage is the account of the first three people who discovered that Jesus’ body was not where it was meant to be. These three people, Mary, John, and Peter, each see and look at an empty tomb. Rob invites us to peer inside with each of them, and make sense of what it means for us today.

There were a lot of things Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. He gave us the Lord’s Supper. He prayed alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. He would stay up through the whole night, as he was whisked away to a sham trial – before a court that forsook all pretense of law or justice. But before all of that, he gave us a mandate to love one another, and then he showed us how much he loves us.

On this Maundy Thursday, Rob Collis preaches from John 13.1-15, and invites us into the conversation Jesus had with Peter before he washed his feet. Peter says three things to Jesus – three things which reveal the posture of his heart – and each time, Jesus replies to him – and each time, he invites us to behold and receive the depths of his love for us.

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. It’s the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. On the day he rode into Jerusalem, all the people had heard who Jesus was and all the miracles he was doing. And they were waving palm branches and shouting ‘hosanna,’ which means 'rescue us’ or ‘save us.’

This week, we’re pleased to welcome Jeremy Derksen, from the Artizo Institute, who preaches from John 12.12-19. As he unpacks Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, he helps us see Jesus’ invitation to us: to worship and celebrate Jesus Christ as our king. But Jesus’ entry on Palm Sunday also issues a confrontation to us: Jesus does not come to be the king we want him to be; instead, he comes as the king we need.

Lent is a season in the Church calendar that’s been set apart for us to do some heart-work. It’s when we can recapture our love for God and his kingdom, and cast off the practices, behaviours, and beliefs that have entangled our hearts – where we can pull away the weeds that have distracted and pulled us away from our love in Jesus Christ. Because, ultimately, Lent is a season of realigning our hearts so that Jesus can rekindle our love for him. And for us as a church, the way we’re going to do that is to delve deep into the Lord’s Prayer.

This week, Rob Collis invites us to look at the end of this famous prayer – where Jesus teaches us to pray about temptation and evil. The fact that Jesus teaches us to pray this way shows us we should expect tests and trials to come our way, and that we’re allowed to pray and ask God for relief in the situations we face. And while he doesn’t necessarily promise to change it, whatever it is – we’re told to count it all joy – because there’s something in this situation that affords us the opportunity to grow in our relationship with Jesus.

Lent is a season in the Church calendar that’s been set apart for us to do some heart-work. It’s when we can recapture our love for God and his kingdom, and cast off the practices, behaviours, and beliefs that have entangled our hearts – where we can pull away the weeds that have distracted and pulled us away from our love in Jesus Christ. Because, ultimately, Lent is a season of realigning our hearts so that Jesus can rekindle our love for him. And for us as a church, the way we’re going to do that is to delve deep into the Lord’s Prayer.

This week we’re pleased to welcome Joel Strecker, who preaches from Matthew 6.12. When Jesus teaches us to pray “Forgive us our sins as we also have forgiven those who sin against us,” he invites us to prayerfully press into the heart of what Jesus has done for us. But in our cultural moment, forgiveness is rare and difficult for us today. As Joel takes stock of some of the ways our society teaches us to practice forgiveness, he shows us how they differ from the way Jesus teaches us to forgive: For us as follows of Jesus, we can forgive precisely because we have been forgiven.

Lent is a season in the Church calendar that’s been set apart for us to do some heart-work. It’s when we can recapture our love for God and his kingdom, and cast off the practices, behaviours, and beliefs that have entangled our hearts – where we can pull away the weeds that have distracted and pulled us away from our love in Jesus Christ. Because, ultimately, Lent is a season of realigning our hearts so that Jesus can rekindle our love for him. And for us as a church, the way we’re going to do that is to delve deep into the Lord’s Prayer.

This week, Rob Collis invites us to look at the middle of this famous prayer – where Jesus finally teaches us how to ask God for stuff in prayer. And as we unpack this together, he explores two things: Why we don’t ask God for things in prayer, and what we should ask for in prayer.

Lent is a season in the Church calendar that’s been set apart for us to do some heart-work. It’s when we can recapture our love for God and his kingdom, and cast off the practices, behaviours, and beliefs that have entangled our hearts – where we can pull away the weeds that have distracted and pulled us away from our love in Jesus Christ. Because, ultimately, Lent is a season of realigning our hearts so that Jesus can rekindle our love for him. And for us as a church, the way we’re going to do that is to delve deep into the Lord’s Prayer.

This week we’re pleased to welcome Bill Stewart, who preaches from Matthew 6.10. When we pray “Your kingdom come, your will be done” we can often miss what Jesus means by the Kingdom of God. Bill shows us that God’s Kingdom is what will last when everything else has passed away, and helps us take stock of the sweeping vision of God’s kingdom in the Bible, and why we should pray for it to come.

Lent is a season in the Church calendar that’s been set apart for us to do some heart-work. It’s when we can recapture our love for God and his kingdom, and cast off the practices, behaviours, and beliefs that have entangled our hearts – where we can pull away the weeds that have distracted and pulled us away from our love in Jesus Christ. Because, ultimately, Lent is a season of realigning our hearts so that Jesus can rekindle our love for him. And for us as a church, the way we’re going to do that is to delve deep into the Lord’s Prayer.

This week, Rob Collis invites us to explore the very start of this famous prayer, in Matthew 6.7-9, where Jesus shows us two ways we can approach prayer – one which will always leave us feeling cold and distant, and another that will help us press into God’s presence.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent: a time of penitence, fasting, and prayer, as Christians prepare for Easter, and the great joy of the resurrection. Today, Rob Collis preaches from Ecclesiastes 3.18-22, and reminds us that we are dust, and to dust we shall return.

In the bible, ashes are used as a sign of sorrow and repentance. But as we are marked with the ashes in the sign of the cross, we are reminded of the life we share in Jesus Christ, and it is in this sure hope that we begin our journey into Lent.

As we come to the final sermon in our series through Ephesians, we see that Ephesians 3.20 has served as a theme or plumb-line, which runs throughout the whole letter: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine…” Because, in Jesus Christ, God has done more than we could ever have thought to ask or imagine. And the implications for what he has done reverberate into every facet, nook and cranny of our lives – in more ways than we could ever imagine.

This week, Rob Collis preaches on Ephesians 6.18-24, he looks at three things: the final charge to pray, Paul’s own prayer request, and the final benediction. As he unpacks these three things, he shows us how Paul continues to be captured by the good news of Jesus Christ as he brings his letter to a close.

As Paul comes to his final thought in his letter to the Ephesians, he brings up a topic the Church has handled very well over the last 100 years. He talks about spiritual warfare. For many of us, it can be tempting for us to brush past this topic today, but the witness of Scripture won’t allow us to discount this, or treat it as inconsequential. As those who walk in the light of Jesus Christ, we’re not to be obsessed with the dark – and we’re not to be afraid of the dark – and we can also never ignore it. Instead, we are to expose it.

This week, as Rob Collis preaches from Ephesians 6.10-12, explores three questions: Who is this enemy? What are his schemes? How do we stand against him? And as he unpacks this, he points out how Paul deliberately left this topic until the end of his letter, because he wants for the grace of Jesus Christ to seep into every fibre, nook, and cranny of our lives – because it’s when we are held and steeped in Jesus’ grace that we discover that he’s already equipped us with his armor.

The message of Ephesians can be boiled down to this: In Jesus, God has done more for us than all we could ever begin to ask, or think, or imagine. And the implications for what he has done reverberate into every facet, nook and cranny of our lives – sometimes, in ways we may never have realized or even imagined.

This week, we are pleased to welcome Hosea Sheen from the Artizo Institute. Hosea preaches from Ephesians 6.13-18, where Paul talks about putting on the armor of God. He helps us to see how this armor is none other than the armor of Jesus Christ, which we can only wear because of his grace, so that we might all wear it together and remain united in him.

The message of Ephesians can be boiled down to this: In Jesus, God has done more for us than all we could ever begin to ask, or think, or imagine. And the implications for what he has done reverberate into every facet, nook and cranny of our lives – sometimes, in ways we may never have realized or even imagined.

This week, Rob Collis preaches from Ephesians 6.1-9, where Paul looks at how the reality of God’s grace works out in our lives in the home and the workplace. As Paul pulls back the curtains of our lives and attends to these different areas of hearts, we discover he’s trying to bring our faith down to a livable level. In this sermon, Rob unpacks what it means for us to embody the grace of Jesus Christ in the areas of parenting and our work.

Today we take a quick bread from our series in Ephesians to consider an important topic in the Christian life, although it might not be something we talk about very often. It’s the topic of perseverance.

In this sermon, Rob Collis preaches from Philippians 3.17-4.1, and explores the question: How can we persevere in our faith? And not just persevere – because perseverance can almost have that sense of raggedness and worn-down-ness to it – but more specifically, how do we persevere and thrive? We could even say it like this: How do we stand firm in our faith?