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Date: Sunday October 5, 2025Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the SpiritDo you remember what joy feels like? Many of us think God is indifferent as to whether we enjoy Him or not. As though all He cares about is being obeyed.In this message, we're introduced (or re-introduced) to the God of joy, and invited to find in Jesus an all-satisfying treasure, greater than anything else the world has to offer.#HolySpirit #fruit #FruitoftheSpirit #joy

Date: Sunday September 28, 2025Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the SpiritThis message is the first in a nine-part study of the fruit of the Spirit. Here, we're introduced to the Spirit and His fruit, and invited to consider the first fruit in the list: love. What happens when we compare the ways the world understands love with the love that is revealed to us in God? We see a love that He'll produce in us when He is allowed to live His life through us!#HolySpirit #fruit #FruitoftheSpirit #love #allyouneedislove #fourloves #CSLewis

Date: Sunday September 21, 2025Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-14Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Be the ChurchA third difference between going to church and BEING the church is about how we think about sharing Jesus with others: What we say about Jesus matters, and HOW we say it REALLY matters. In this message, we learned that the Church is sent - by Jesus, to embody the Good News in our communities, schools, workplaces, and churches - as ambassadors of Christ.#Jesus, #BetheChurch, #Benediction, #HamOnt, #Gospel, #Church, #Orthodoxy, #Orthopathy, #Orthopraxy, #Mission, #Evangelism, #Outreach, #Shalom

Date: Sunday September 14, 2025Scripture: Acts 2:42-47Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Be the ChurchAnother difference between those who merely GO to church and those who are BEING the church is how we treat each other in community. We will ALL find our way into communities of various kinds. In this messages we learned what kind of community we're made for, and are challenged to find it - and commit.#Jesus, #BetheChurch, #Benediction, #HamOnt, #Gospel, #Church, #Orthodoxy, #Orthopathy, #Orthopraxy, #Community

Date: Sunday September 7, 2025Scripture: Mark 9:1-8Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Be the ChurchThe difference between GOING to church and BEING the church can be seen in how we do discipleship differently: It's not about believing a bunch of true things ABOUT Jesus, but becoming like Him. In this message we shared how we as a church understand discipleship, using the three Orthos: Orthodoxy (right belief), Orthopathy (right attitudes), and Orthopraxy (right actions).#Jesus, #BetheChurch, #Benediction, #HamOnt, #Gospel, #Church, #Orthodoxy, #Orthopathy, #Orthopraxy, #Discipleship

Date: Sunday August 31, 2025Scripture: Matt 22:15-22Speaker: Hobbe SmitSeries: Money TalksWhen the Lord was being challenged about whether it's right to pay taxes to Caesar or not, He used it as an opportunity to teach us about the value of a person, compared to the value of a coin. In this message, our friend and neighbour Hobbe Smit shares that God's image is stamped on us and asks: what difference does that make?#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty

Date: Sunday August 24, 2025Scripture: John 6:1-15Speaker: Bill AllanSeries: Money TalksJust before the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Jesus' disciples couldn't imagine HOW they'd be able to look after all these people. Their perspective was limited by sight, not by faith. In this message, our friend and AGC President Bill Allan shows us that Jesus can be trusted to meet our needs - big ones and small ones. #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty

Date: Sunday August 17, 2025Scripture: Acts 5:1-11Speaker: Derek HissonSeries: Money TalksThe story of Ananias and Sapphira is an ancient horror story of greed, deception, and pride. How much does God love us? How much does God care about the Church and its mission? This tale gives us the answer. #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty

Date: Sunday August 10, 2025Scripture: Luke 12:16-34Speaker: Mike LewisSeries: Money TalksHow we relate to money can show where we've put our trust, but more often, it shows where our trust is NOT. We fear to lose, we fear to go without. As God's people we think we trust God to provide, so why are we just as anxious as anyone else? #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty #anxiety #fear

Date: Sunday August 3, 2025Scripture: Proverbs 30:7-9Speaker: John GarnerSeries: Money TalksOne of the reasons we're more often managed by our money than managers of our money is because we fail to see it as a tool entrusted to us by God. In this message, our friend John Garner teaches through the ancient, gutsy, counter-cultural prayer from Proverbs 30: "Give me neither poverty or wealth" #money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry #poverty

Date: Sunday July 27, 2025Scripture: Matthew 19:16-24 Speaker: Rony MikhaelSeries: Money TalksThe Rich Young Ruler rejected Jesus' invitation because he couldn't imagine allowing anything to supplant his wealth as his true god. In this message, Rony asks us whether wealth has the same power over us.#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism #jesus #gospel #idolatry

Date: Sunday July 20, 2025Scripture: Luke 12:22-31Speaker: Thomas + Miriam VanderkrukSeries: Money TalksJesus has more to say about money than almost any other subject - so you'd think we'd trust that He knows what He's talking about. This week's message is a conversation with Tom + Miriam - newlyweds learning to trust God to provide.#parables, #gospel, #jesus, #church, #money, #wealth #possessions, #consumerism, #materialism, #coveting, #greed

Date: Sunday July 13, 2025Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20Speaker: John HilberSeries: Money TalksEcclesiastes is a collection of practical, realistic wisdom sayings that most of us ignore at our own peril. In this message, we see that we're not the first ones to struggle with the power of our possessions. God's ancient people were just as torn, just as tempted to find their identity in their possessions. This, we learn, is 'vanity'.#money #wealth #greed #ecclesiastes #covetousness #possessions #materialism #consumerism

Date: Sunday July 6, 2025Scripture: Joshua 7:1-26Speaker: Lane FusilierSeries: Money TalksWhy do we do what we do? It's because all of us have disordered desires. If we're greedy for money, and if we'd disobey God in order to have more of it, it's because we don't love what we think we do. This message is an invitation to reflect deeply on WHY money has such a hold on our hearts.#money #wealth #greed #covetousness #gospel #church #achan #desire #disorderedloves #augustine

Date: Sunday June 29, 2025Scripture: 1Kings 12:1-16Speaker: Mike MileskiSeries: Money TalksIn a world of Ahab's, will we be a Naboth? In this ancient scam, the wealthy King Ahab and Queen Jezebel take advantage of a man with much less, and have him killed in order to seize his property.Most of us won't be involved in something so cruel or underhanded. But this story forces all of us to ask: What are we willing to do to have what we want? What would we not do? Whose suffering will we tolerate if it means having more, or nicer things? #greed, #money, #wealth, #possessions, #jesus, #gospel, #church, #hamont

Sunday, June 22nd, 2025Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28; Revelation 22:3-5Teacher: Nathan TomesIn this wrap up to our series on Creation, we're challenged to think of the Image of God not as some ability that we have that animals don't, but as an identity and a calling. It's two things not one, and it makes a huge difference for how we relate to ourselves, one another, and the world. #imagodei, #identity, #calling, #vocation

Sunday June 8th, 2025Teacher: Dr. John Walton. Moderator: Mike MileskiIn this final lecture, Dr. John Walton addresses the ancient context and language of Genesis two. What does it mean that humans were created "from dust"? Was Eve really formed from Adam's rib? Dr. Walton also answers questions submitted by conference attendees.

Teacher: Dr. John Walton. Moderator: Mike MileskiIn this lecture, the first of our The Lost World conference, Dr. John Walton orients us to the ancient meaning of Genesis one. What is God trying to communicate in this story? What makes this passage so important? What does it NOT say? Following his lecture, Dr. Walton answers questions submitted by conference attendees.

Sunday, June 15th, 2025Scripture: Isaiah 45:18–23; Philippians 2:9–11Teacher: Dr. John HilberOne of the thorny issues in Creation Conversations is the fact that many ancient Near-Eastern cultures told stories that greatly resemble what we read in Genesis. For some, this suggests that maybe Genesis isn't a reliable account of Creation after all. Did ancient Israelites plagiarize the Babylonians, Canaanites, Mesopotamians? What beliefs did they have in common? What's unique about the biblical Creation account, compared with others'? How is our faith helped by knowing what other cultures were saying - before Genesis - about Creation?#Genesis #Creation #Israel #Hebrew #Mesopotamia #Babylon #Canaan #hermeneutics #interpretation

Sunday June 8th, 2025Scripture: Colossians 1:15-23Teacher: Dr. John WaltonWhat was God's aim in creating the world? Humanity? A garden? The tree? What did it all mean? In this message, Dr. John Walton, author of the "The Lost World of..." series presents Order as a unifying theme of the Genesis story, and indeed, all of Scripture. At Creation, God's aim was to bring order, and He has called us to be participants in that work as order-bringers with Him. This message was also the second in our The Lost World conference.#TheLostWorld #Genesis #Creation #Evolution #Order #NaturalSelection #CulturalRiver #AdamandEve #Paradise #Garden