Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Rev. Jeremy MacDonald.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with John Mohan.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Pastor Alex Allan.

Daring Gratitude & Generosity - with Phil Siggelkow.

Christianity differs from all other major world religions in that our Savior is alive, and not dead! Easter Sunday is the day on which we celebrate Jesus' resurrection from the dead and the new life this resurrection now offers! Through Christ, tombs can become wombs for God to birth something new in and through each one of us!

This weekend we will look at Abraham, who is known as the Father of Faith. Though imperfect, Abraham teaches us that faith is about moving forward into the unknown and learning to trust a big and capable God who has a plan beyond what we may be able to see or understand.

Do you have a story of when things went from bad to worse? The book of Genesis relates the story of how quickly God's idyllic creation went downhill after the fall ... until we meet Noah. Imagine the ridicule, the loneliness, and the enormity of the task as he spends 120 years building the ark! Yet it is such daring faith that God calls each of us to today - a faith that perseveres at all costs.

Few of us enjoy stepping out into something where we can't see the path clearly, and yet that's exactly what Jesus calls us to do. In Exodus, God called the Israelites to begin walking through the Red Sea even before the entire path was visible, requiring a Daring Faith in Him that far transcended their fear or comfort zones.

AJ Crocker has a deep passion to see youth and young adults shaped by the Bible so they can live their lives more like Jesus and less like the world. AJ, Cheryl and their three kids have attended COG for three years and worked at Briercrest for 15 years. Cheryl has been a teacher at CHS/BCA and AJ has served in various roles such as Youth Quake Director, High School Chaplain, and Director of Recruitment. AJ currently serves as Vice-president of Marketing and is thrilled to be bringing the Word to us this weekend!

Few of us enjoy waiting. But since God's plans and timetable are higher than ours, we can trust He's working in us in those interim seasons when we're longing for breakthrough, preparing us to better steward the blessing when it comes.