Along with forming a people who are generous with what they have, Jesus is forming a people who live care-free trusting their Heavenly Father will provide their every need when they seek His kingdom and His Righteousness. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]

In His Sermon on Mount Jesus casts a vision for how His people should and shouldn’t relate to money and possessions. It’s part of his broader vision for being rightly to God and others. People who come into contact with Jesus, who begin to experience the Holy Spirit move in their life are not stingy, […]

Ron and Gloria Edgecombe share an update on their recent mission work in the past year including their work in Argentina. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at […]

The practice of fasting is challenging and confusing for many of us. Yet the Sermon on the Mount reveals Jesus assumes that His followers will fast. Biblical fasting is voluntarily refraining from food for a spiritual purpose. Alex highlights 6 reasons people fast in the Bible, offers practical steps we can take, and what can […]

What are we asking God for when we pray, “lead us not into temptation”? In this last petition of the Lord’s Prayer, Ron Edgecombe teaches the relationship between the words testing and temptation. God doesn’t tempt us, but He does use the test of life to form us. The sixth petition is a request for […]

There’s an intimate connection between God’s forgiveness and the forgiveness we extend to others. When we refuse to forgive while asking God to forgive us we’re revealing to don’t understand the nature of God’s forgiveness or what it means to follow Jesus. When we do forgive others we confirm that God’s forgiveness is truly at […]

What are we asking God for when we pray for daily bread? Alex highlights 3 things and how our lives begin to change when we pray this authentically. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]

In this message Alex unpacks the second of six simple petitions where Jesus invites us to ask our Father to rule on earth as He does in heaven. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]

The Lord’s prayer is the powerhouse for living the way of Jesus. In this message, Alex unpacks the first of six simple petitions that Jesus teaches. In so doing, He invites us to ask God to His name and character known to us on earth as it is in heaven. Cascades Church is a church […]

When Jesus teaches us to pray we discover that we’re mistaken prayer when we treat it as a performance and we’ve misunderstood prayer when we treat it as a way to manipulate God into doing what we want. Instead, Jesus teaches us prayer is a conversation about things that are of mutual concern. He invites […]