What Do You Expect?

2015.03.01 - Kevin Makins - The Church Calendar

What Do You Expect?

Mark 8:31-38

Click here to listen (right click and “save link as…” to download)

A sermon on suffering, following Jesus, and how our expectations shape us.

Also featuring a short parable by Danny Blank, Stephen Edwards, and the Eucharist Kids about the “Ontario Basketball Assocation”!

The text:

Mark 8:31-38

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

REJECTED!

image

2014.03.02 - Kevin Makins

REJECTED!

Click here to listen (right click and “save link as…” to download)

Luke 4, Romans 16

Kevin tells us two stories of rejection.

In Luke 4, Jesus goes to church, is rejected, and nearly murdered.

In January of 2014, Kevin and Meg went to Vancouver, were rejected, and got a nice polite letter.

Two very different endings, but a similar question can be asked about both: how should we respond in a culture of rejection?

(As an aside, this was our first week in a new gathering space, so there are some veiled, and not so subtle, allusions to that fact)

(As another aside, the church planting group Kevin talks about is in no way affiliated with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec/CBOQ, and do not reflect the values or blah blah blah of the CBOQ!)

Back to the Future - "May I Be Ripped Limb From Limb"

image

2013.04.28 - Kevin Makins - Back To The Future: Old Sermons That Shaped Us

“May I Be Ripped Limb From Limb”

Genesis 12, 15

For the next two months we are going to be preaching through old sermons that shaped our community.

To start we are going WAY back to the early days of Eucharist and looking at our first impression of God, the cross, and how we hold multiple worlds together in Christ.

Original song by Alex Drumm starts at 43 minutes.

__

This sermon is a “re-preach” of an earlier sermon at Eucharist. You can re-listen to the original sermon (from 2010) by clicking here!

The Thing I Am Most Afraid Of - Simon the Sorcerer

image

2013.04.14 - Kevin Makins - The Thing I Am Most Afraid Of: Two Sermons About Power

Simon the Sorcerer

Acts 8, John 14

If you were to ask me a few years ago what I was afraid of I would have probably said failure, but I’ve failed plenty of times, and now I’m not so scared of it.

I might have said weakness, but I’ve learned that God is with us even more in our weakness than in our strengths.

I might have said the devil or demons, and sure, that’s a frightening thing, but it’s not what I’m most afraid of. 

This is a sermon about what I am most afraid of.

Music led by Justine Lodder - starts 49 minutes in.