Sermon synopsis · 12 Jan 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 2:22-40
12 January 2025 The sermon says Luke 2 helps people correct their expectations about Jesus. Through Simeon and Anna, it shows that Jesus is not an imagined Savior who simply fits…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 19 Jan 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 2:40-52
19 January 2025 The sermon reflects on Jesus in Luke 2 as both fully human and fully divine. It emphasizes that Jesus truly grew up like any person—learning, maturing, obeying his…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 2 Feb 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 3:21-38
2 February 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ baptism and genealogy in Luke 3, showing that Jesus is the Savior all people need. It argues that humanity shares the same origin in…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 9 Feb 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 4:1-13
9 February 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness as a picture of life versus death. It explains that true life is not simply getting what people want, but…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 16 Feb 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 4:14-30
16 February 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ visit to Nazareth in Luke 4, where he announces that God’s promised salvation is being fulfilled in him. The pastor explains that…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 23 Feb 2025
The Holy Spirit
23 February 2025 The sermon centers on the Holy Spirit’s role in salvation and presents salvation as far more than forgiveness alone: it is God drawing people into loving union…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 2 Mar 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 4:31-44
2 March 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ authority in Luke 4, presenting him as the true King who comes to reclaim a broken world from the power of evil. Using the image of…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 10 Mar 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:1-11
10 March 2025 The sermon says that following Jesus is costly, but it is never ultimately a loss. Through Luke’s story of the miraculous catch of fish, the pastor shows that Jesus’…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 16 Mar 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:12-26
16 March 2025 The sermon says that Jesus did not come simply to improve life, but to rescue people who are cut off from God by sin and helpless to return on their own. Through the…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 23 Mar 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 5:27-39
23 March 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ call of Levi, a tax collector, to show that Jesus came not for the self-satisfied but for people who know they are spiritually needy.…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 30 Mar 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:1-11
30 March 2025 The sermon reflects on Jesus’ conflicts with the Pharisees over the Sabbath to show that he is not merely a teacher, but the merciful Lord who brings true rest. The…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 22 Apr 2025
Easter Sunday 2025
22 April 2025 The sermon centers on the hope of Easter in a world marked by sin, suffering, fear, and death. It says while no one doubts death, many despair of life—but Jesus came…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 5 May 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 6:43-49
5 May 2025 The sermon closes Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain by focusing on two images: trees and their fruit, and houses with different foundations. Its main message is that Jesus…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 11 May 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:1-17
11 May 2025 The sermon reflects on two stories from Luke 7 to show the surprising mercy of Jesus. In the healing of the centurion’s servant, the pastor highlights a man who seemed…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 18 May 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:18-35
18 May 2025 The sermon centered on Jesus’ salvation as the most glorious reality in the world, while also reminding listeners that it often arrives in ways people do not expect.…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 26 May 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 7:36-50
26 May 2025 The sermon reflects on Jesus’ encounter with the Pharisee and the sinful woman in Luke 7, contrasting two people, two hearts, and two responses to grace. The pastor…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 8 Jun 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - 8:22-25
8 June 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus calming the storm in Luke 8 and argues that the story is not mainly about Jesus making life easier, but about why and how people should…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 15 Jun 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 8:26-39
15 June 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ encounter with the demon-possessed man in Luke 8 and emphasizes that while evil and spiritual opposition are real, Jesus is far greater.…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 22 Jun 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 8:40-56
22 June 2025 The sermon reflects on Luke’s account of Jairus’s daughter and the woman who had been bleeding for twelve years to show that Jesus meets people personally in their…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 1 Sep 2025
The Psalms of Ascent - Psalm 133
1 September 2025 The sermon reflects on Psalm 133 as a celebration of how good and life-giving it is when God’s people live together in unity. It explains that this unity is not…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 29 Sep 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 9:18-27
29 September 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ question, “Who do you say I am?” and presents him as the true Messiah who did not come to win by worldly power, but by suffering,…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 6 Oct 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 9:28-36
6 October 2025 The sermon reflects on Jesus’ transfiguration as a moment when his true glory is briefly revealed to the disciples. It explains that Jesus is shown to be greater…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 26 Oct 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 9:57-62
26 October 2025 The sermon centers on Jesus’ words, “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” as deep comfort for people living in a world marked by change, loss, and death. Drawing…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 9 Nov 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 10:21-24
9 November 2025 The sermon centers on Luke 10 and presents Jesus as the sure source of lasting joy in a world where happiness feels fragile. It highlights that Jesus himself…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 23 Nov 2025
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 10:38-42
23 November 2025 The sermon reflects on the story of Martha and Mary as a lesson about how to receive Jesus rightly. It argues that the passage is not a simple contrast between…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 1 Dec 2025
Advent - Colossians 1:13-14
1 December 2025 The sermon opened Advent by contrasting the pressure and disappointment of modern Christmas with the honest hope of the Christian season of waiting. Centering on…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 8 Dec 2025
Advent - Colossians 1:15-17
8 December 2025 The sermon invites people to see Advent as the celebration of Jesus not only as Savior, but as the good King the world desperately needs. Drawing from Colossians…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 14 Dec 2025
Advent - Colossians 1:18-20
14 December 2025 In this Advent message from Colossians, the sermon centers on Jesus as the reconciler who restores people to God. It argues that the deepest problem in the world…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 4 Jan 2026
Floog Vab Ninto
4 January 2026 This sermon centers on Jesus’ words in John 14 as a deep comfort for troubled hearts in a world marked by loss, change, and death. Drawing on the image from “Abide…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 5 Jan 2026
The Lord's Prayer - Part 1
5 January 2026 The sermon presents prayer as one of the greatest gifts of the Christian life: because of Jesus, people do not have to face sin, suffering, and weakness alone, but…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 12 Jan 2026
The Lord's Prayer - Part 2
12 January 2026 In this sermon on Luke 11, the pastor says Jesus teaches not only what to pray, but who God is when people pray: a good and welcoming Father. Because of Jesus,…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 25 Jan 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 11:14-26
25 January 2026 The sermon says this difficult passage is a wake-up call about the spiritual battle people often fail to notice. Using the image of dense fog, it argues that sin…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 8 Feb 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 11:29-36
8 February 2026 In this sermon on Luke 11, the pastor says Jesus confronts a deep human tendency toward willful blindness. Like the crowds who kept asking for more signs, people…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 4 Mar 2026
Test Sermons
4 March 2026 In this sermon on Jesus healing the bent-over woman in Luke 13, the pastor says the passage reveals God’s heart as deeply merciful toward suffering sinners. Jesus…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 30 Mar 2026
Faith in the Age of Doubt
30 March 2026 The sermon centers on Jesus healing a woman who had suffered for eighteen years, showing that mercy is not incidental to God’s character but flows naturally from who…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 12 Apr 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 13:10-17
12 April 2026 The sermon centers on Jesus healing a woman who had suffered for 18 years, showing that mercy is not incidental to God’s character but flows naturally from who he…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 28 Apr 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 13:18-31
28 April 2026 The sermon explains Jesus’ two short parables in Luke 13 as a picture of God’s kingdom beginning in ways that seem small, ordinary, and even easy to dismiss, yet…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 3 May 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 13:31-35
3 May 2026 The sermon centers on Luke 13 and invites listeners to stand in awe of Jesus. It highlights Jesus’ complete control as he continues steadily toward Jerusalem, fully…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 10 May 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 14:1-6
10 May 2026 In this sermon on Luke 14:1–6, the pastor reflects on Jesus healing a suffering man at a Sabbath meal while the Pharisees watch for a reason to accuse him. He says the…
Read →Study guide · 14 May 2026
Consecrated and Sent: Jesus the Child in Luke 2
By presenting Jesus at the temple according to the Law, Mary and Joseph enact the declaration that this firstborn son belongs wholly to God — and Jesus' humble submission to that…
Read →Study guide · 14 May 2026
Set Apart and Sent: The Child Jesus as God's Consecrated Savior
Jesus enters the temple as one set apart — his parents' obedient presentation of him according to the Law of Moses frames him from the very beginning as holy to the Lord,…
Read →Devotional · 21 May 2026
Devotional
What does it mean to love our neighbours — truly, sacrificially, without counting the cost? This week we sit with one of Jesus' most demanding and most beautiful teachings, drawn…
Read →Devotional · 21 May 2026
Devotional
The Lord's Prayer is one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture — and perhaps one of the most under-used. Jesus did not give it as a recitation to be repeated on…
Read →Devotional · 21 May 2026
Rooted in the God of Mercy
Difficult seasons have a way of making God feel distant — as if our suffering disqualifies us from his attention, or our failures have finally exhausted his patience. This week we…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 31 May 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 14:25-35
31 May 2026 The sermon centers on Jesus’ hard words in Luke 14, where he urges the crowd to count the cost of following him. The pastor explains that Jesus is not interested in…
Read →Devotional · 2 Jun 2026
Everything: The Cost of Following Christ
Jesus is unlike any leader the world has ever known. When the crowds swell around him, he does not seize the moment to build his following — he turns and tells them the truth.…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 7 Jun 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 15:1-10
7 June 2026 The sermon centers on Luke 15 and says these parables reveal the heart of the gospel: Jesus loves lost sinners. It highlights the scandal of Jesus welcoming and eating…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 27 Jul 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 17:20-37
27 July 2026 The sermon says Jesus answers a deep question for every believer living in his apparent absence: when he does not seem near, how should his people live? From Luke 17,…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 14 Sep 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 18:15-18
14 September 2026 In this sermon, Jonathan explores what Jesus's welcome of children in Luke 18:15-17 reveals about the nature of God's kingdom and how people must enter it. He…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 14 Sep 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 18:31-34
14 September 2026 Pastor Brant Van Rolkel of Christ Church Kitsilano explores a crucial moment in Jesus's ministry when he predicts his passion to the disciples. Drawing from Luke…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 14 Sep 2026
The Gospel According to Luke - Luke 18:35-43
14 September 2026 Pastor Alvin explores the story of the blind beggar in Luke 18, emphasizing that true vision of Jesus requires faith rather than mere knowledge. The blind man…
Read →Sermon synopsis · 17 Sep 2026
September Baptism - Acts 02:01-41
17 September 2026 Pastor Brant Van Rolkel of Christ Church Kitsilano celebrates multiple "birthdays" on this special day: the church's 25-year history, its…
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