Patience may seem like a strange thing to include alongside love, joy, and peace, as the fruit of the Spirit, but patience is a super important part of a healthy, holy life.
In this message, our friend Sarah Robinson walks through the life of Jesus, showing how He perfectly illustrates patience with Himself, with others, and even with God.
#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #peace
Date: Sunday October 12, 2025
Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
God's peace is far more than just the absence of war or violence. Peace is the opposite of worry, fear, and anxiety. In our anxious world, we are desperate for peace, and God offers peace by His Spirit as He is allowed to live His life through us.
In this message we get to see several pictures of what it looks like when God's people learn to trust God to run the universe, and so, find peace.
#HolySpirit #fruit #Jesus #FruitoftheSpirit #peace
Date: Sunday October 5, 2025
Scripture: Galatians 5:22-26
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
Do 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, 2025
Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Fruitful: Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit
This 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, 2025
Scripture: Jeremiah 29:4-14
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Be the Church
A 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, 2025
Scripture: Acts 2:42-47
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Be the Church
Another 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, 2025
Scripture: Mark 9:1-8
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Be the Church
The 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, 2025
Scripture: Matt 22:15-22
Speaker: Hobbe Smit
Series: Money Talks
When 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, 2025
Scripture: John 6:1-15
Speaker: Bill Allan
Series: Money Talks
Just 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, 2025
Scripture: Acts 5:1-11
Speaker: Derek Hisson
Series: Money Talks
The 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, 2025
Scripture: Luke 12:16-34
Speaker: Mike Lewis
Series: Money Talks
How 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, 2025
Scripture: Proverbs 30:7-9
Speaker: John Garner
Series: Money Talks
One 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, 2025
Scripture: Matthew 19:16-24
Speaker: Rony Mikhael
Series: Money Talks
The 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, 2025
Scripture: Luke 12:22-31
Speaker: Thomas + Miriam Vanderkruk
Series: Money Talks
Jesus 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, 2025
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
Speaker: John Hilber
Series: Money Talks
Ecclesiastes 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, 2025
Scripture: Joshua 7:1-26
Speaker: Lane Fusilier
Series: Money Talks
Why 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, 2025
Scripture: 1Kings 12:1-16
Speaker: Mike Mileski
Series: Money Talks
In 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, 2025
Scripture: Genesis 1:26-28; Revelation 22:3-5
Teacher: Nathan Tomes
In 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, 2025
Teacher: Dr. John Walton.
Moderator: Mike Mileski
In 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 Mileski
In 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.