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Temple Baptist Church in Cambridge, Ontario is on mission with Jesus to turn broken people into whole people who multiply Christ-followers. We LOVE God, CONNECT with others and SERVE in our community. Check out this podcast to learn more from the Word of God.
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Back in 2019, you sent Lori and me to Togo, West Africa, to see how clean water projects turn people far from God into receiving Christ as Saviour and Lord, and how new churches are planted. It is not a stretch to see how clean water leads to the message of Jesus giving living water. In Canada, we often take clean drinking water for granted. However, this is not the case in most parts of the world. It certainly was not the case in ancient Egypt when the Israelites were slaves there. The ancient Egyptians believed the Nile River was a god and a source of life. Imagine how they must have felt when God told Moses to turn the Nile River water to blood. What was God doing? Come this Sunday and find out as Pastor Aaron unpacks Exodus 7:14-24 beyond what you studied at home and in your small group. See how this leads us to the Lord’s Supper as we believers partake together.
This week Pastor Steve will teach us from Exodus 7:1-13 about how Moses had an audience with a very famous and powerful person, but that Moses had already met somebody more important and carried His message. Have you met the God of the universe and are you carrying His message?
Happy Family Day weekend! What are some of your favourite promises of God? I would love to know. Please email me at info@templebaptistchurch.ca. This Sunday, we’ll look at Exodus 6 as Pastor Kyle unpacks God’s promise of deliverance to His people, the Israelites.
Have you ever felt under-resourced? More month than money when it comes to all your bills? Maybe the cause of your lack of resources is due to somebody else? Maybe a family member made a commitment that has cost you dearly and you are still paying for it? This seems to be the thinking of Israelites in slavery in our passage of Exodus 5 this week when their leader Moses tells Pharaoh to let God’s people go. Pharaoh was not going to let go of his slave work force so easily and instead demanded that the Israelites make bricks without straw and without lowering their daily quota, one brick. But this was God’s word! And sometimes God’s word makes things harder before they get easier, but that is not the last of God’s word. There is hope for those under-resourced. The God over everything will deliver us!
Most of us know what the signs of danger are - falling rocks or DANGER! with an exclamation point! But have you heard of signs to go back to danger? Well, you will this week from Exodus 4 as God calls Moses to go back to Egypt where he had run away from as a fugitive. Sometimes the most dangerous thing to do is play it safe!
Have you ever been minding your own business and then God unexpectedly showed up? How did He get your attention? Moses was tending sheep when God spoke to Him from the burning bush and told Moses to go back to Egypt to tell Pharaoh to let God’s people go. This is what we will be studying from Exodus 3 this week. May we all be ready and expecting our next encounter with God!
Imagine feeling leaderless and forgotten, while experiencing oppression and persecution. But then a baby is born. Your deliverer is coming! However, in his first act as deliverer, he overreaches and things become violent and so he flees … for 40 years. What would you do? This week in your small groups and on Sunday, we will find out from Exodus 2 what the Israelites did and more importantly, we will get to pull back the curtains and see what God was doing in heaven when all this was happening. May we never lose sight that our deliverer is coming!
Happy New Year! God was faithful in 2025, and He certainly will be this coming year! We have much to anticipate. We are beginning a new series through the Book of Exodus entitled Know-Grow-Go this Sunday! Our Leadership Team picked the Book of Exodus to remind us of the power of God in our lives. We are very excited to see what God is going to do in and through us as we gather together each week and look at this awesome book.
Think back to the most difficult times of your life. You may say, Jon, why would I do that when I want to put my past in the past? I do not mean to lance any old wounds, but I want you to think about what God has produced in and through you during that suffering. Do you have greater faith in Him? Do you have more perseverance? More empathy for your fellow sufferers? Did you grow through suffering and oppression? I bet you did. Sure, suffering in itself does not guarantee growth, but turning to God in our pain does. This is what we will discover as we study Exodus 1. See you Sunday and expect God to show His care and power in your life!
I hope you had a great Christmas, and your heart was full of joy and wonder at what our Saviour Jesus has done for us. This Sunday is becoming one of my annual favourites when we gather between Christmas and New Year for a time to share God stories. It is a powerful time remembering God’s faithfulness, power and love in our lives. I usually take time this week every year to review my year going over answered prayers, remembering the events that brought me joy and sorrow and knowing that God brought me through both of them. We overcome through the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). So come out and spend time with your church family reminiscing about what our Heavenly Father has done for us.
What is one of the most elusive things in the world? Some say cats. Those who do, have you ever tried to wrangle up chickens that have been enjoying life as free rangers? The trick to rounding up chickens and cats is offering food. What is more elusive than cats or chickens is peace! Unlike food drawing cats and chickens, food requires peace to already be in place. Who eats with somebody they don’t trust? And if peace is elusive, how about having peace with the government? What if I were to tell you that there is a Prince of Peace who holds the government on His shoulders? This Prince of Peace’s name is Jesus. This Sunday, as we celebrate Advent, the focus will be on peace from Isaiah 9:6-7 - the kind of lasting peace that only Christ can provide. Come to Jesus and find peace once again.
Most likely you are reading this on Black Friday. Don’t get run over chasing shopping deals. Our family is visiting my wife’s family in the United States this American Thanksgiving week. Many from Lori’s family are not just gathering to celebrate the holiday, but also to spend some time with our family matriarch, Lori’s mom. Mom Henry is a very godly woman who has overcome a lot in her life and is now battling Parkinson’s. Earlier this year there was some doubt that we would get to have Thanksgiving with her this year as we are told that soon she will be going to heaven to see her Lord and Saviour Jesus. But God! Mom Henry has always looked forward to the next family gathering since her children and their families are spread throughout North America serving the Lord. Part of what drives Mom Henry is hope. That is true for all of us. This is why this week our Advent season begins with a focus on hope. Pastor Steve will point us to Christ, the true giver of hope. May you find hope in Christ this season!
This Sunday we finish off our series in Romans, with Pastor Aaron preaching on Romans 16. Romans 16 is a list of people in Paul’s day sent to serve Christ’s Church and to crush Satan. Have you ever thought that our mission is spiritual warfare? That when we serve and make disciples, we are gaining back ground that the Devil has tried to rob from God. That is how important your seemingly “insignificant" ministry and service to the Lord is. When you work in our TBC Kids ministry or serve at Prime Time Plus or in our youth ministry or any other ministry you are stomping on the devil. Wow! You and I belong to a church that God is using to crush Satan under our feet. What an amazing God!
Do you think about how many on our planet do not have access to the Bible or to a gospel witness? Do you have a desire for the gospel to reach new places? This was one of the burning desires of the Apostle Paul as we read Romans 15:14-33, the passage we will be studying this week.
"Total trust leads to total praise!” This was a phrase that I heard often from my senior pastor Rev. Dr. Rick Baker. But it begs the question: what is between total trust to total praise? Or how does total trust turn to total praise? I think it is hope. Hope is a cousin to trust. If you lose hope, then you lose trust. So, hope leads to trust but also to joy and peace. If this doesn’t make sense, Pastor Jason will explain it better as he teaches on Romans 15:14-21.
I confess that one of the areas I have struggled with the most in my life is bearing with the failings of the weak. To admit that seems to require double repentance. First, I need to repent of my lack of empathy towards the weak. Second, I have wrongfully elevated myself to be better than those whom I consider the weak. Thankfully I offer to you a better pastor - the Lord Jesus Christ who is not proud but bears with all of us who are weak. Jesus did not please Himself but put us first and saved us. This Sunday we are going to unpack from Romans 15:1-7 how we are to treat those who seem to be weak and we will discover not only the pathway forward but the motivation for doing so. I hope to see you on Sunday.
I started playing hockey when I was 7 years old after watching an older boy in our church play, and immediately fell in love with the game. Up until just a few years ago, I played pick-up hockey weekly in the winter. I was never a great skater, but tried to make up for it with hustle. I worked hard at staying out of the “sin bin” (aka the penalty box) because I just wanted to play. I do vividly remember getting a penalty when my stick got caught in an opposing player’s skates. The words that came over the arena loud speaker, “C & G Realty Penalty to # 3, Jon Stairs, 2 minutes for tripping” still haunt me. I never wanted to trip somebody else. This Sunday we are going to talk about tripping people, but not on the ice. Do you know that our actions can trip people up spiritually? Read Romans 14:23-33, discuss in your families and small groups, and come on Sunday to learn more about not causing others to stumble.
One of the many things that I am thankful to God for you is your compassion. I have seen this time and again when we have given you the opportunity to respond to global needs such as in Ukraine or caring for children through sponsoring 41 children in Togo through Compassion Canada or giving 97 gifts last Christmas through Slavic Gospel Association Immanuel’s Star. I believe we are to be compassionate because our God is full of compassion (Psalm 112:4). Compassion literally means to "suffer with." Our God suffers with us and this is why the ultimate act of compassion toward us was Jesus dying on the cross. This weekend at our Global Outreach (GO) Conference we are going to learn more about compassion from the Fellowship Aid and International Relief Director Norton Lages as he preaches on 2 Corinthians 1:3-5. Don’t forget to attend our International Supper on Saturday at 5 PM and our Missions Session on Sunday at 6 PM! Let’s continue to grow in our compassion and show the love of Christ!
Happy Thanksgiving! This weekend is a time for faith, family, food, fellowship and football. Thanksgiving is also a time to fight judging one another. Judging one another poisons our fellowship with our family and friends. This is what we will learn from Romans 14:1-12 this Sunday. I hope you have a great weekend and are thankful to God for all that He has given you, especially His Son Jesus.
How can we live out the gospel and God’s commands? Read and study Romans 13:8-14 in your families and small groups. This Sunday we will learn more about how to live out the gospel and God’s commands as a church.
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