How does the King of Heaven get to the cross? Matthew wants us to understand that Christ’s death is not accidental – it is calculated and strategic. It’s for the purpose of accomplishing God’s rescue mission – the redemption of His sinful people who deserve death. Jesus’ death and resurrection a statement that demands a response. Jesus died in the place of sinners, did Jesus die for you?

We live in a time where truth has become relative and people claim that there are multiple ways to God.  Pastor Phil walks through Jesus' claim to be the only way to God and asks the question, "Is Jesus' claim true?"

We’re surrounded by people. What does God expect of you in relation to them? What does God expect of you in relation to the people behind you in the drive through at Tim Hortons today? What does God expect of you in relation to your next-door neighbors? What do we owe each other? Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

One of the surprising things Jesus said early in his ministry is about a sin that could never, ever, ever be forgiven.  That’s in the Bible!  In the last two thousand years, many tortured souls have wrestled over this warning. 

We’re all tempted in some way to deviate from what God says about us in His Word. The battle is and will always be to believe God’ sovereign purposes for us are good, including those who wrestle with sexual identity. The question at the heart of this issues is, what does it mean, if anything, to be a man or a woman, and is our biological assignment fundamental to who we are and what God purposes for our lives? 

We are tempted every day to love everything else but God. Yet for the believer, we must love above all else. Today, we’ll learn that God wants to teach us something important about how to authenticallylove like him.

Having described love in verses 4-7, Paul picks up where he left off in verse 8, and again begins to contrast love and the three most elevated spiritual gifts in the Corinthian spiritual gift arsenal: prophecies, tongues and knowledge. Paul will give us two reasons why love must be what we are known for.

Things haven’t changed since the first century because the nature of sin hasn’t changed. We still live in a selfish, sin-cursed world that doesn’t understand what agape (God-like) love is. If we’re going to be the kind of people who are motivated by love, then we need God to show us what that agape love looks like in his Word. What does love do, and what does love not do? We find out this week from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.

The question that this chapter asks us is, when it comes to the character of our service for God, what should that look like?  What pleases God about what we do? What ingredient, if it were missing would, would empty our service of any value from God’s perspective?

We find out this week from 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.

Not everyone understands what Communion is or why the church continues to celebrate it.  Pastor Phil walks through 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and explains four responses Christians should experience as they celebrate Communion.