Guest Pastor Matt Naismith brings a special word of encouragement for our 10th Anniversary celebration service.

As we celebrate our church’s 10th anniversary this month, we join our pastoral team in a conversation about the dream that brought them to Toronto, and the kind of church they envision ENGTA to be.

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the final week of Jesus’ public ministry. The expectation around Jesus is high and he’s at the height of his popularity. So what Jesus does next is unexpected but necessary if we are to have proper expectations of him.

“Life is hard. Evil is real. Does God care?” Life is full of these tensions and in Psalm 130,  we see this tension in both the honesty of our lived reality and the reality of God. How we reconcile those two realities is key to living purposefully with contentment in our lives.

What makes for a good life? As relevant as that question is today, in this message we explore the answer from an ancient prophet, Micah, that has clear relevance to us today.

We are creatures of desire, and so we must seek full fulfillment for our longings in the right place. In Psalm 63, the psalmist’s tough situation reveals his deep longing for God and it’s captured by two seemingly opposite images that are key to understanding our longings.

Sheila Thomson continues our Lent series by diving into Psalm 32, looking at how we are led to return to God (repentance). The Psalmist gives us a picture of the good life and the honest life, plus some good advice.

The Lenten season commemorates the time of testing Jesus experienced in the wilderness and that is where we begin in this message. Through Jesus’ experience, we are given a masterclass on the nature of temptation and its appeal to our primal impulses, and how to resist pursuing legitimate needs through illegitimate ways.

This past Sunday we had a special guest Pavlo Lozynsky from Lviv, Ukraine share his “follow the call” story which resulted in his returning from Canada to his homeland. His church and ministry are now actively helping victims of war with practical needs and sharing the good news of the Gospel.