This morning our youth pastor, Amanda Mackie, was our speaker. Below is an introduction to her sermon and the audio recording. On the wall, next to my bed I have a sign that the Kulynychs had made for my birthday and it says this “You were born to blaze new trails. Pioneer great adventures. Reclaim...
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Ezequias Lamarche: Genesis 2:20-23 “No Longer Mimickers, But Assimilators”
This morning our speaker was our worship leader, Ezequias Lamarche. All things start and finish with God’s Word; we want the knowledge and revelation of who our God, our savior is, so that we can walk in His nature. God is not calling us to be mimickers, those who just copy, but He desires for...
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John 3:22-27 “Traditions, Disputes & Baptisms”
In John 1 we were introduced to John the Baptist, verses 6-7 described him this way: “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.” There are two important things to remember about John the...
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John 12:12-19; Luke 24:1-12 “Improper Expectations and Intense Disappointments”
The presence of Christ always creates tension, seeing Jesus as He is reveals our hearts as they truly are and then requires us to respond to both His majesty and our fragility. This tension may have never been higher than the hours after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. John writes that many that witnessed...
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Easter Sunrise Service Sermon: Amanda Mackie “The Road to Emmaus”
This morning we participated in the Easter sunrise service in conjunction with several other Burlington churches. The speaker for the service was our youth pastor Amanda Mackie. Luke 24:13-35New International Version (NIV) Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with...
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John 11:45-12:19 “The Tension that Builds up and Tears Down”
This morning, because we are using a very large text we are not going to read it all together, rather I’m going to refer you to different pieces as we go through it. Generally, on Palm Sunday we concentrate solely on Jesus’ ride into Jerusalem, we see Him seated on the colt of a donkey...
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John 3:16-21 “Light and Darkness”
Last week we started this passage by discussing the contrast between love and condemnation. John 3:16 is, in many ways, our foundation for the gospel. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” As I said last week,...
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John 3:16-21 “Love and Condemnation”
I’ve often shared that one of my favorite things about teaching and preaching is to take a passage of Scripture that is familiar and to look at it more closely than we’ve looked before. It’s never my desire to find something new or to uncover some yet to be discovered revelation but rather to take...
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John 3:1-15 “Earth and Heaven”
John’s gospel is a journey that begins by declaring the truth of who Jesus is and then, from that declaration leads us through Jesus’ life, not to prove Him to be God, but to teach us what God is like, His character, His heart, His plans and His purposes. This morning I want us to...
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John 3:9-13 “We Speak”
In John 8:32 Jesus said “the truth will set you free.” This is quoted everyone, most people that quote it probably don’t even know that it’s a Bible verse or that Jesus was the One who said it. The reality is that while this statement is true there is so much more that goes into...