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Daniel 7 highlights a pattern about life during exile and a promise for life after exile. The pattern is clear: human kingdoms become beastly when they glorify their own power and redefine good and evil. But the promise is greater: one day God will remove all beastly kingdoms, and the Son of Man will receive […]
To live as a Creative Minority is to take up a counter-cultural mission. In Daniel 6, Daniel shows us how — by treating our work and character as part of God’s call, by discerning truth from distortion in our culture, and by making our homes in God through prayer. Cascades Church is a church in […]
Pride distorts — it elevates us above God and leaves us unable to relate rightly to Him or to others. In Daniel 4, God humbles King Nebuchadnezzar and uses Daniel to reveal His truth and grace through two vital postures: compassion and courage. If we’re going to live as a creative minority in our day, […]
Everyone worships. The question is what we will give our ultimate attention and affection to. In Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego remind us that no matter the cost, God alone is worthy of our worship and He alone is able to deliver us. Their encounter with God also teaches us that what we elevate […]
How can we influence a culture often at odds with God’s ways while remaining faithful to God? In Daniel 2, we look at how Daniel’s dependence on God’s wisdom leads to him to compassionately advocate for his enemies and proclaim to King Nebuchadnezzar God’s triumphant, coming, and eternal kingdom. These practices vital to be being […]
How do we follow Jesus faithfully as a minority in a culture whose values are at times alien or even hostile to the way of Jesus? In this message we examine Daniel 1 exploring how Daniel and his friends lived as creative minorities — neither withdrawing from Babylon nor compromising with it — but resolving […]
In this message, we look at Jesus’ parable on the rich farmer in Luke 12:13-34. He invites his followers to forget about building bigger barns and instead choose to be generous to those in need. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]
In 1 Corinthians 9, the Apostle Paul compares the Christian life to a marathon. In order to win the race, you have to know where you’re heading, keep focus, and train, so that at the end of life, we can obtain the prize. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing […]
The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is perhaps the longest and most sustained engagement on the topic of forgiveness that you will find in all of the New Testament. Through it, we discover how forgiveness opens the door to life in God’s Kingdom, and how Jesus intends for us to live in God’s forgiveness, so […]
In Matthew 18, Jesus give his disciples a way to work through the conflict that will arise when people learning to embrace the Way of Jesus come together. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]
The quality of our love for Jesus is revealed in the extent to which we care for the ‘little ones’ among and beyond us. In this message, we explore Jesus’s command to not look down on the little ones and to seek out those who wander from the fold of God. Cascades Church is a […]
Lest we forget! Psalm 103 gives us one of the most powerful descriptions of the character and nature of God that we encounter in the Psalms. This beautiful Hebrew poem of thanksgiving reveals to us the very being of a loving and merciful God. The psalmist uncovers the relationship between the Lord and limited humans, […]
Songs are the soundtrack of our lives. They have a way of marking and enhancing moments in our lives. It should come as no surprise then that God’s people have treated the Psalms as their Songbook. No where is that more clear than in Psalm 136. This psalm invites us to make the repeating chorus […]
Follow Jesus long enough and you will find yourself joining in the ancient cry, How long, O Lord? What’s taking You so long to come to my help? Psalm 40 offers an example of how we can remain steadfast while waiting for God’s help. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver […]
In this message, we explore how Jesus and the Spirit of God lead us into the meaning of the Psalms and into liberation for the poor and oppressed. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]
Experiencing guilt and shame are part of the human experience. It is no exaggeration to say that the way you relate to your guilt and shame will determine who you become. In Psalm 51, David brings the need for forgiveness into focus, and in so doing, teaches us about the nature of forgiveness and how […]
All of us will experience a season of disorientation – a time in the desert – as disciples of Jesus. Psalm 63 confronts us with a question: what will I seek in the desert? In Psalm 63, we discover a psalmist earnestly seeking God and in so doing, he finds joy, justice, security, satisfaction, purpose, […]
Taking a week off the Psalms for a Parable, Brad Bates of Multiply explores what it means to prepare our hearts to be good soil for God’s seed, by humbly receiving His word and allowing it to take root in our lives. Through confession, prayer and other spiritual disciplines, learn what it means to cultivate […]
Psalm 121 is a beautiful declaration of God’s unwavering protection and help. Come explore the comforting truth with our guest speaker, Dr. Ron Edgecombe, that God is not distant, but is our source of help, our constant protector, and our eternal keeper. In the midst of life’s chaos, we can find sanctuary in His presence […]
Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS BREAD: https://cascadeschurch.ca/BREAD/ Making Room Initiative: https://cascadeschurch.ca/making-room/ The Creative Way Down Course: https://cascadeschurch.ca/creative-way-down/ Community Groups: https://cascadeschurch.ca/community-groups/ Giving: https://cascadeschurch.ca/give Weekly Mailouts: […]
Witnessing Jesus walking on water instigated a major shift in the hearts of the disciples; their response was: “truly, You are the Son of God”. So what was it about this moment that changed their experience of Jesus, and what might it be for you and me? Cascades Church is a church in the heart […]
Our guest, Rev. Brad Strelau from CA Church, will share insights on how to invite both the hurting and the hopeful to see our Christian community as a sanctuary—one that embodies not just easy answers, but a lasting presence and grace in action. It’s a call for the local church to make room for the […]
Jesus continues His teaching on the community of love that He is forming. Love limits its freedom for others, love redirects its ambition towards others, and love does not want to hurt the faith of others. Jesus calls His followers to look inward, and radically deal with their sinful desires and behaviours, for the sake […]
We all want to be great. But one of the most counterintuitive of all Jesus’s teachings— that goes against everything we hear, and even the intuition of our own heart —is His teaching on greatness. For Jesus, the problem isn’t that we want to be great: it’s that the route we want to take towards […]
A simple question about whether Jesus pays the temple tax becomes an opportunity for Jesus to teach his disciples about love, freedom, and trust. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit […]
Alex sits down with Ron and Gloria Edgecombe to talk about what it has been like to serve Jesus for nearly 60 years in Quebec, BC, and Argentina. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]
In this passage, the disciples are unable to heal a boy — not because they don’t care or don’t try (they do!), but because their faith is so small they don’t even pray. Jesus teaches them that even faith as small as a mustard seed, when directed toward God, is powerful enough to overcome the […]
The Transfiguration gives us a glimpse of reality: Jesus revealed in glory, the dawn of God’s renewing work on earth. In a world clouded by pain, fear, and doubt, the voice of God calls us to listen to Him, trust Jesus, and live as people of hope. Cascades Church is a church in the heart […]
When God the Father reveals Jesus, it requires a response: confessing Him as Lord — through that confession, Jesus builds His church, and calls us to take up the cross and follow Him into His mission. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we […]
Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS BREAD: https://cascadeschurch.ca/BREAD/ Making Room Initiative: https://cascadeschurch.ca/making-room/ The Creative Way Down Course: https://cascadeschurch.ca/creative-way-down/ Community Groups: https://cascadeschurch.ca/community-groups/ Giving: https://cascadeschurch.ca/give Weekly Mailouts: […]
Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS BREAD: https://cascadeschurch.ca/BREAD/ Making Room Initiative: https://cascadeschurch.ca/making-room/ The Creative Way Down Course: https://cascadeschurch.ca/creative-way-down/ Community Groups: https://cascadeschurch.ca/community-groups/ Giving: https://cascadeschurch.ca/give Weekly Mailouts: […]
Every king that’s come along in one way or another has left us wanting…except One. Palm Sunday is an opportunity to celebrate His arrival and honestly examine whether we’ve embraced his kingship. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d […]
We all have deep hunger to be satisfied in life. Desire is central to being humans made in God’s image. Despite this, many of much the things (often good) we seek out can’t seem to satisfy in a lasting sense. In John 6, Jesus teaches the crowd of more than five thousand he just fed […]
In this message, we explore the time between Jesus’ death and resurrection and what it means for us today. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS […]
In this last message in our series, we look at the practice of putting Scripture to memory. This is about absorbing key passages of Scripture so deeply into our bodies that they begin to take up residence in us. As with reading, mediating, and studying Scripture, memorizing Scripture opens the doorway to become participants in […]
Studying Scripture is about more than doing research to understand what it says, what it originally meant, and how it applies today. It certainly includes those things; yet, as disciples of Jesus Christ, studying Scripture requires a posture to embrace whatever God says. In other words, studying Scripture needs a discipline that requires both our […]
From the earliest days of the church all the way through church history, followers of Jesus have said in unison: Scripture is more than a collection of stories, poems, and historical records. It’s like a map to another world; it’s a doorway to encountering the Living God. And yet, in spite of this, many of […]
As followers of Jesus, we’ve set our future hope in God’s promise to redeem our world and restore all things. The story of God ends with the union of heaven and earth, and Revelation 21-22 offers us a glimpse of what the new city will be like. In this message, we focus on 7 things […]
As followers of Jesus we’ve set our future hope in God’s promise redeem our world and restore all things. The story of God ends with the union of heaven and earth. Revelation 21-22 offer us a glimpse of what the new city will be like. In this message we focus on 7 things that will […]
In the story of God, we witness that people who embrace Jesus and His Way have their lives energized by God’s own power. Acts 2:41-47 offers us a dynamic portrait of a movement of people who orient their entire community around following the way of Jesus. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of […]
When the story of Israel stops in the OT, it isn’t really complete. There remain all these unresolved threads, promises in the story of God. We’re left with a sense of waiting, anticipation, and disappointment. Enter Jesus of Nazareth. The Gospel writers present Jesus as the fulfillment of all that Israel longed for and as […]
Genesis 3-11 reveal humanity’s long descent into darkness. It leaves us asking: what will God do to redeem His good creation? The story of Israel reveals how God begins to answer that question. It is the story of how God works to rescue and renew humanity by choosing one family — the family of Abraham […]
The story you live in is the story you live out, yet as disciples of Jesus, we believe the story of God found the library of Scripture is the one that leads to life. We want to give our attention to His story, allowing our imaginations to be captured our hearts formed by it, so […]
The story you live in is the story you live out, and as disciples of Jesus, we believe the story of God found the library of Scripture is the that leads to life. Over the next 6 weeks, we want to give our attention to His story, allowing our imaginations to be captured by it, […]
You were made to know Jesus, embrace His Way, and join Him in His mission to make all things new. In this message, Alex outlines how we can step deeper into the life Jesus wants for us at Cascades. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city […]
As followers of Jesus, we stand between the two arrivals of Jesus. Christmas is full of waiting, watching, and longing. Looking at the story of Simeon, found in Luke 2:25-35, we discover what it means to wait patiently for the Lord. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see […]
The stories we consume have the power to change the way we think about others, ourselves, and the world around us. Instead of walking with hope, we can walk filled with this existential dread about the future. Christmas is so important because it points us back to the moment God came to us and became […]
We all want Christmas to be wondrous. It turns out that for many of us, what’s supposed to be a season of celebrating and gathering is far from wonderful; it’s downright painful. Is there a way for us to be fully immersed in the wonder of Christmas? In this message, we look at Jesus’s family […]
All throughout Scripture (before and after Jesus), we read again and again of what one theologian has called “the preferential option for the poor”. In fact, there are over 2000 passages on God’s heart for the poor and, through Jesus’s teachings, we see God’s heart on display. In this message, we look at Jesus’ parable […]
As we follow Jesus in community, we fundamentally ask ourselves the question, what would Jesus do if He were us? To know this, we must study Jesus’s life, teachings, and Way. One way we do this is by studying the Gospels. John’s Gospel account is full of reflection, theological richness, and big-picture teaching. Cascades Church […]
When we think about our relationship to our home, stuff, or money, most of us do not see ourselves as caretakers of them; we see ourselves as owners of them as if they’re all ours. But that is not actually the view of Jesus. Examining Luke 12, we discover Jesus teaches that God owns it […]
No matter how much we get, it’s never “enough.” Despite living in the most affluent generation in human history, so many of us are wracked by fear, worry, greed, and unsatisfied desire. Is there a way to untangle our hearts from greed so we can be formed into people who are deeply happy and at […]
We all want to be happy. One of the most counterintuitive of all Jesus’ teachings is his teaching on money and generosity — it’s better to give than to it is to receive. In this message, we explore Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 6:19-24, and in so doing, we see that discovering the joy of living […]
Every Sunday, we sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we explore the fun and challenging question of why we give. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d […]
As we follow Jesus in community, we are fundamentally asking ourselves the question: what would Jesus do if He were us? To know this, we must study the life, teachings, and Way of Jesus. One of the ways we do this is by studying the Gospels. John’s Gospel account is full of reflection, theological richness, […]
Every Sunday we gather and sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we explore what Communion is and why we take communion every week. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]
Every Sunday we gather and sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we look to focus in on prayer. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to […]
Every Sunday we gather and sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we unpack four reasons we teach the Scriptures on Sundays. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If […]
Every Sunday we gather and sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we unpack four reasons we gather on Sundays. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like […]
Every Sunday, we gather and sing songs, teach from the Scriptures, give our finances, partake in Communion, and pray. Why? In this message, we unpack four reasons we gather on Sundays. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like […]
The Gospel of Mark acts as a very comprehensive discipleship manual that exalts the servant King, Jesus, and invites us to follow him. In following Jesus, He invites us to rest, participate, and discover the Good Shepherd. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]
What we think about death and how we relate to death will determine how we live our lives. Rather than avoiding its reality out of fear or trying to overcome it, we are to face our death before the Lord. That’s what Psalm 90 seeks to do. It brings death into focus and, in so […]
Is serving God with our lives really worth it when evil and injustice seem to prevail all around us? Why am I doing this? That’s what Psalm 73 is about: our doubts, what we do with them, and how we come through them. Rather than take a path of suppressing our doubts or settling into […]
Psalm 8 reminds us of how the creation of the world and human beings points us to God’s power and creativity. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at […]
Psalm 139 offers us a stunning image of David’s awareness and connection to God. How do we live into this kind relationship with God? In this message, we look like what David discovers in the presence of God and highlight ways we can grow to become aware of God’s presence in all parts of our […]
Many of us struggle with prayer and knowing what to say to God. Enter: The Psalms -150 unique expressions of prayer to God. They offer language for how we might come to the Lord in joy, thanksgiving, confusion, desperation, and grief. As it turns out, about half of all of them are psalms of lament. […]
Psalm 23 is perhaps the most famous of all Psalms. In it, David likens himself to a sheep whose shepherd is the Lord. As we explore this Psalm, we discover the riches of knowing God as our shepherd. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed […]
Love for God is demonstrated through obedience to His commandments. But do we trust God to obey Him? Our struggle to obey is often a question of whether we believe God is truly good. But in the person of Jesus, we find reason to trust the love and authority of God. His commandments are not […]
In this message, we explore Psalm 84 and the blessing of dwelling in God’s presence. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Welcome to Cascades: https://cascadeschurch.ca/basics/ […]
The story of Jesus healing the daughter of a Canaanite woman is one of the most confusing found in the New Testament. Jesus seems to respond to the mother’s cries for help with silence and prejudice, and only after she persists does she grant her wish. In this message we unpack what explains his seemingly […]
We long to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. Baptism is a fulfilment of our vision in one person’s life. It’s a sign of our vision coming to fruition in an individual. How does baptism connect to renewal? Because at its core baptism signifies union with Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection. […]
The religious leaders of Jesus’ day and Jesus’ disciples offer us two portraits of faith in Jesus. In this passage, we discover how Jesus responds to an unwillingness to trust or understand Him, and how He responds to those who trust, but struggle to understand. Through Jesus, we find hope in our own struggles to […]
Jesus longs to renew the world through His disciples: He has empowered them to be His agents of renewal. When we embrace Jesus’s way of hospitality, we create spaces where God’s grace can be encountered. Therefore, one of the key ways we can contribute to the renewal in our city lies in recovering the practice […]
Pentecost Sunday celebrates the day God poured out His Spirit upon His people. The question is, what was God doing by sending His Spirit? In this message we look at 3 things: God sent His Spirit to dwell within us, to empower us to be His witnesses, and to unite us under the banner of […]
The book of Ruth tells a stunning story of suffering and redemption – and through it all – the loyal compassionate devotion God expresses in and through His people. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn […]
Religious leaders accuse Jesus of breaking the Torah by permitting his disciples to ignore hand washing rituals before eating. Jesus responds that their traditions are not equal to the commands of God. They break God’s commands for the sake of their traditions. Further, it isn’t what you put in your mouth that defiles; It’s what […]
Jesus comes to his disciples overwhelmed by a storm in the middle of the Sea of Galilee. The event stands out because of the way He comes to them: walking on water. Even more surprisingly, Jesus calls Peter to come to Him in the midst of the storm, and on water too. Jesus’s response to […]
The feeding of more than five thousand people is one Jesus’s most famous miracles. In this story, Jesus has compassion on the large crowds and heals their sick. Additionally, Jesus also wants His disciples to join Him in serving the world; more specifically, He wants His disciples to bring what little they have to Him […]
The beginning of Matthew 14 recounts how and why John the Baptist was killed. The events surrounding his death are violent, tragic, and unjust. John was faithful to the Lord and His life was fruitful; how could it end this way? Matthew’s description of John’s death closely parallels Jesus’s own death; it’s as if he’s […]
Come celebrate the Resurrection of our King, Jesus Christ. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Welcome to Cascades: https://cascadeschurch.ca/basics/ Following Jesus Today Course: https://cascadeschurch.ca/courses/ Community […]
Join us as we commemorate the sacrificial death Jesus partook upon the cross. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Welcome to Cascades: https://cascadeschurch.ca/basics/ Following Jesus […]
Palm Sunday celebrates the arrival of King Jesus in Jerusalem. His entry offers us a stunning portrait of the kind of king Jesus is, and various responses to Him point us to lies ahead in the days to come. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city […]
The moments recorded in the Garden of Gethsemane capture how fully Jesus Christ has identified with humanity, suffering for us and surrendering to the Father’s will, in order to save us. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like […]
What happened when Jesus Christ was crucified? When Jesus was crucified, He was setting us free from the guilt and power of sin, restoring us to right relationship with God by dying in our place. Through His death, God established a new way of relating to Him based on faith in Jesus Christ. Cascades Church […]
For the last 8 weeks, we’ve walked through various aspects of becoming emotionally healthy disciples. Acknowledging pain often has a way of making the pain feel more real and more intense. Jesus is best suited to walk with us in our pain and lead us towards wholeness. In this message, Pastor Alex outlines 3 opportunities […]
Many of us know Jesus’s command to love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love our neighbour as ourselves. However, stick around the church long enough and discover the painful truth: you can be devoted to following Jesus Christ and yet have unhealthy ways of relating to others that […]
For some, the idea of grieving our losses feels like a counterproductive practice. For followers of Jesus, the act of grieving our losses enables us to tap into the heart of God, expand our soul’s capacity for love, and ultimately, to more faithfully follow Him. Grief is a vehicle for becoming more like Jesus. Cascades […]
The Way of Jesus is a journey full of movement, action, starts, stops, detours, delays, and trips into the unknown. Follow Jesus long enough and you will hit the Wall that brings about a crisis of faith. In order to move through it, we need steadfast trust in God’s goodness and God’s wisdom to recognize […]
The climax of Paul’s entire letter to the church in Corinth, perhaps the most culture-shaping letter he writes to a church, is the well-known passage in 1 Corinthians 13 about love. And while most of us have heard this read at a wedding or ten, the passage speaks directly to the life of the church […]
The blessings and sins of our families going back two to three generations profoundly impact who we are today. Jesus desires to show us the ways of relating and thinking that no longer fit us because we belong to the family of God so that we can shed them and begin to walk with the […]
It’s impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. If we are going to become the people Jesus intends for us to be, we must learn to recognize our emotions, distinguish between thinking and feeling, and distinguish our God-given desires and the desires of others. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of […]
We long to see our city renewed by Jesus Christ. At first glance, this seems like an unattainable goal and apart from God, it is. However, in this message, Alex shares three things we can do to directly contribute to it starting with fully devoting ourselves to Jesus Christ and His Way. Cascades Church is […]
Scripture is full of people living in the gap. People waiting on God for things they don’t have control over. Christmas is as much about God coming to us in birth of Jesus as it is about waiting on God. Christ has come and He will return and when He returns He will make all […]
Please join us for a Christmas Eve message focused on the wonder of God becoming one of us in Jesus Christ. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at […]
The story at the epicentre of Christmas brings a complete transformation of how we live in this world. Jesus’s birth represents hope renewed and hope fulfilled. God invites us to live with the Spirit of Hope in this season and throughout life. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to […]
Through Mary in the Christmas story, we learn of God’s desire to put the life of His Son Jesus in each of us. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our […]
Through the magi in the Christmas story, we learn God’s desire is for outsiders – those who are not rightly related to Him – and for all the nations of the world, to be drawn into His story of redemption and renewal by meeting Jesus Christ. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of […]
Joseph is quiet throughout the Christmas story; yet, his actions speak loudly about the kind character and faith he had. Joseph’s response to the Christmas story inspires a kind of faith in Jesus that risks control of our lives in order to experience the salvation Jesus came to bring. In this message, we look at […]
In the Parable of the Net, Jesus teaches us about His desire to gather up all those who hunger to be rightly-related to God and who will live in light of His Gospel, and His promise to finally separate the evil and the righteous on the Day of Judgement. Cascades Church is a church in […]
In these twin parables Jesus reveals the incalculable value of the Kingdom followed by the cost to gain it. Through the parables we are invited to see that when we discover Jesus is the greatest treasure we become willing to risk all we have for His Kingdom. Cascades Church is a church in the heart […]
In these twin parables Jesus reveals the hidden power of His Kingdom and invites us to place our confidence in His Kingdom’s power to grow and even permeate in our lives and world. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If […]
In the Parable of the Sower the farmer throws seed in four soils, yet only the seed that falls in good soil bears fruit. In this message we share stories about how the gospel of Jesus Christ has fallen into receptive hearts in Bolivia. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver […]
In this parable, Jesus teaches us about His desire to fill the earth with people of the kingdom and His commitment to ultimately weed out evil from the world. For followers of Jesus, the call is to keep growing, yielding fruit of the kingdom, and to keep patience as we wait on His promise to […]
Jesus is after transformed hearts that exude the fruit of the kingdom. Despite this, many people don’t always embrace His message of the Kingdom. In this parable, Jesus highlights three conditions of the heart that explain why the seed of the kingdom fails to bear the kind of fruit it was designed to in some […]
Jesus’s parables are an invitation to embrace the posture of discipleship at the feet of Jesus and dwell in the truth in them so that God can transform your imagination, your longings, your own words, and ultimately the way you live. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see […]
Jesus is accused of drawing his power and authority from evil spirits. Jesus responds explaining His teaching, His way, and works are enough proof to show He am not under by the Enemy’s power, because it’s restorative goodness that people witness Him bringing. Like good fruit comes from a good tree, so goodness comes from […]
If there’s an Old Testament prophet that most faithfully and effectively conveys the identity, nature, and mission of Jesus it is Isaiah. In this passage Matthew draws on Isaiah to paint an entire portrait of Christ. Jesus is Servant Son of God, He’s the bearer of the Spirit, and He’s the proclaimer of God’s saving […]
Jesus shows us that the kind of rest He wants to give to his disciples is rooted in a heart of mercy and kindness. Because He is the most restful being in all the cosmos, anyone who chooses to follow Him will experience what resting with Him is like: namely provision for our needs, defence […]
Jesus warns of the judgment to come for those who in His presence aren’t making any decision to turn to him – to be changing their whole way of living. When we choose to remain unmoved by Jesus’s presence, words, and people, we inevitably find ourselves tired, weighed down, and exhausted. It doesn’t have to […]
What do you do when your experience doesn’t line up with what you’ve taught and believed about Jesus and His Way? This is John the Baptizer’s experience and it causes him to ask, are you the Messiah or should we look for someone else? John’s question and Jesus’ response offer us a picture of what […]
The Fruit of the Spirit originates and is produced by the Holy Spirit working in us. In this message, we explore different ways we respond to our desires. When we follow the Holy Spirit’s lead one of the things He produces in us is self-control. New Testament understanding of self-control it includes the ability to […]
Every second of our lives presents us with new opportunities. The path to making the most of the opportunities is found in rejecting foolishness and embracing faithfulness. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about […]
When we “walk by the Spirit”, God will lead us in ways that reflect and embody the character of Jesus Himself. In this message, we focus on how the Spirit of God produces goodness in us. Part of being disciples of Jesus is learning to notice and be attuned to His work in us, rather […]
You can’t live the life Jesus came to bring without an ongoing encounter of His kindness. That’s part of what ‘walking in step with the Spirit’ is about. God is kind. If you’ve never experienced the kindness of God, if you’ve gone so long that you’ve forgotten what the kindness of God is like you’ll […]
The letter of Galatian proclaims the freedom that Jesus brings and the Spirit empowers us to live. This new life begins when we trust in Jesus and can only be completed by continuing to trust Him. Our own strength isn’t enough. so, when we “walk by the Spirit”, God will lead us in ways that […]
In our text, we see God declare that He is a God of new things; but is He not also unchanging? We will look briefly at what God working in new ways teaches us about His character and His work in our world, while also asking ourselves the question: what work of beautiful renewal could […]
When we “walk by the Spirit”, God will lead us in ways that reflect and embody the character of Jesus Himself–namely characteristics like: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. In this message, we examine how joy is a sign of the Holy Spirit’s renewing work in you, obstacles to our joy, […]
The letter of Galatian proclaims the freedom that Jesus brings and the Spirit empowers us to live. This new life begins when we trust in Jesus and can only be completed by continuing to trust Him. Our own strength isn’t enough. so, when we “walk by the Spirit”, God will lead us in ways that […]
When Jesus sends us out on mission, He sends us out to do as He would. However, when you read Jesus’s Sermon on mission in Matthew 10, you begin to see that how we go on mission matters just as much as going out does. In this message, Alex highlights how Jesus wants us to […]
Disciples of Jesus are people sent out on mission. Remarkably what Jesus sends His disciples to do is what he did; proclaim the good news of His kingdom, teach what it’s like, and bring His healing to whole person. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city […]
When Jesus sees the exhaustion, illness, and waywardness of humanity something deep within Him is stirred up: Compassion. It is not the resilience, faithfulness, or prayers that moves Jesus to compassion; it’s our hurt. Remarkably, His response to it is to call us to join Him in His mission. Cascades Church is a church in […]
When the disciples of John the Baptist discover Jesus’s disciples don’t fast they’re confused. Jesus reveals fasting was the not appropriate response in light of His arrival. Jesus is bringing the kingdom of God on earth. Trust in Jesus is the only response that pleases God and grants us access to the kingdom of God. […]
Few people were more despised than tax collectors in Jesus’s day. That’s what makes His call to Matthew the tax collector so remarkable–it reveals the depths of His mercy. Yet this kind of mercy is bound to be misunderstood. Religious leaders question Jesus character—what kind of person spends time befriending sinners and tax collectors? Jesus […]
After Jesus paints a picture of what of the kingdom of God looks like through His sermon on the mount, He brings the reality of God’s kingdom to those around Him. Matthew will give us 9 different scenes of Jesus doing it in chapters 8 and 9. In this message Alex focus’ on the middle […]
Pastor Brad Bruneski from Mount Pleasant Baptist preaches from the beginning of Paul’s letter to the church in Philippi. This text finds Paul encouraging the church to carry on the work of the Gospel, living lives worthy of the call of Christ, trusting that God plans to bring the work in them as individuals and […]
Pastor John Fortune of CA Church this message. In the second beatitude, Jesus shocks us by saying that those who mourn are in fact blessed. In the gospel of Matthew, we learn that what seems to be upside down and paradoxical is actually true and right and leads to us to experience real Christian comfort. […]
In this message Alex shares our vision and four things we can do to directly contribute to it, starting with fully devoting ourselves to Jesus Christ and His Way. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn […]
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When Jesus arrives in Jerusalem He’s met with shouts of praise as people hail Him as the Messiah–the long awaited King who would bring God’s reign on earth. Alex examines Jesus subverts the people’s Messianic expectations riding on a colt and confronting the corruption and hollow worship in the temple. While the crowds and the […]
Three times Jesus predicts his death and resurrection, but it’s not until the third occasion that Jesus reveals the purpose of his death and resurrection. Jesus came to suffer and give his life as a ransom for many. For anyone who chooses to follow Him He makes clear that they too will participate in His […]
Jesus redefines greatness as serving. He calls us to take the way of downward mobility. Despite this, it’s often difficult for us to choose to serve others. In this message Alex discusses why we resist this kind of life, how Jesus modelled this throughout his life, and what happens when we begin to do the […]
Jesus predicts his death and resurrection three times in the Gospel of Mark. Each time his disciples fail to understand, which leads to Jesus explaining what following Him means for them. In His first prediction, Jesus explains that anyone who wants to follow Him must both deny themselves and embrace Him, no matter where He […]
In Ephesians 6 Paul lays out all expectations for how family’s treat one another. In this message, Alex focuses on the task God has given parents to use their authority to influence and train their children in the Way of Jesus. Parenting is never easy, but when we rely on the power of the Holy […]
Throughout the Scriptures when angels or apostles are mistakenly worshiped, they are always corrected and told to stop. When Jesus is honoured and worshiped He never corrects or rejects. He welcomes and takes joy in people’s recognition of who He is. In this message Alex highlights how trust in Jesus makes Him marvel, grants us […]
Our friend Pastor Brad Bruneski returns to preach on the difficult and often confusing experience of suffering and how in Jesus we have a God who willingly enters into our suffering. ___ Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d […]
After announcing the Kingdom has come in Him, Jesus begins bringing the Kingdom into people’s lives. The first person he encounters is someone on the complete margins of society; a man with leprosy who asks to be cleansed of his sickness. When Jesus does, he heals his body, removes the source of his shame and […]
As followers of Jesus we are called to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the good news that Jesus Christ brings, but how exactly do we do that? And equally as important, why should we? In this message guest speaker Brad Bruneski highlights God’s call for his diverse people to live in harmony with […]
As Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount he calls people to decide which kind of life they want to live using three illustrations. In his third illustration Jesus highlights two ways to build your life–building on a shaky foundation or building on a solid foundation. On outside both look the same, but only the […]
As Jesus concludes the Sermon on the Mount he calls people to choose which kind of life they want to live using three illustrations. In his second illustration Jesus draws on imagery of healthy trees bearing good fruit and diseased trees bearing bad fruit. He calls people to be careful who they choose to follow […]
The call to enter the narrow gate is a summons to enter the Kingdom of heaven by radically committing to Jesus and His Way. The call comes with a warning to avoid the wide gate. The stakes in our decision are high with one path leading to the fullness of life and the other to […]
Many of us are prone to trying to figure out our needs and challenges on our own and it is not until we’re feeling desperate that begin to ask for help. It does not have to be this way. In the passage we look at today Jesus calls us to live differently. He wants his […]
Michael Chinchilla is the Lead Pastor of Village Church Vancouver. He preaches from 1 John 4:7-10. With the arrival of Jesus, love has been made manifest, its true nature revealed, and its reach expanded worldwide. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow […]
Senior Associate Pastor at CA Church David Wood looks at the Christmas story (Matthew 2:1-8; Luke 1:8-25, 26-38) to examine how Herod, Zechariah, and Mary each respond to the birth of Jesus. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d […]
At Christmas we celebrate Jesus will save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). Alex points us to Isaiah 9:6-7 to show how Jesus would rescue us from what is Humanity’s great illness: sin. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. […]
Alex preaches from Matthew 1:20-23 highlighting how Jesus is Immanuel, God-with-us and three implications for us. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS Month of Generosity: […]
In this message, Andrew Piechnik unpacks Jesus teaching on judgment. We live in a world that longs for mercy and forgiveness but far too easily deals out judgment. Condemning and tearing others down reveals a failure to be rightly-related to God. Instead, Jesus shows us that only when we have been confronted with our own […]
Along with forming a people who are generous with what they have, Jesus is forming a people who live care-free trusting their Heavenly Father will provide their every need when they seek His kingdom and His Righteousness. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]
In His Sermon on Mount Jesus casts a vision for how His people should and shouldn’t relate to money and possessions. It’s part of his broader vision for being rightly to God and others. People who come into contact with Jesus, who begin to experience the Holy Spirit move in their life are not stingy, […]
Ron and Gloria Edgecombe share an update on their recent mission work in the past year including their work in Argentina. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at […]
The practice of fasting is challenging and confusing for many of us. Yet the Sermon on the Mount reveals Jesus assumes that His followers will fast. Biblical fasting is voluntarily refraining from food for a spiritual purpose. Alex highlights 6 reasons people fast in the Bible, offers practical steps we can take, and what can […]
What are we asking God for when we pray, “lead us not into temptation”? In this last petition of the Lord’s Prayer, Ron Edgecombe teaches the relationship between the words testing and temptation. God doesn’t tempt us, but He does use the test of life to form us. The sixth petition is a request for […]
There’s an intimate connection between God’s forgiveness and the forgiveness we extend to others. When we refuse to forgive while asking God to forgive us we’re revealing to don’t understand the nature of God’s forgiveness or what it means to follow Jesus. When we do forgive others we confirm that God’s forgiveness is truly at […]
What are we asking God for when we pray for daily bread? Alex highlights 3 things and how our lives begin to change when we pray this authentically. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]
In this message Alex unpacks the second of six simple petitions where Jesus invites us to ask our Father to rule on earth as He does in heaven. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more […]
The Lord’s prayer is the powerhouse for living the way of Jesus. In this message, Alex unpacks the first of six simple petitions that Jesus teaches. In so doing, He invites us to ask God to His name and character known to us on earth as it is in heaven. Cascades Church is a church […]
When Jesus teaches us to pray we discover that we’re mistaken prayer when we treat it as a performance and we’ve misunderstood prayer when we treat it as a way to manipulate God into doing what we want. Instead, Jesus teaches us prayer is a conversation about things that are of mutual concern. He invites […]
In this passage Jesus teaches about where our motivation needs to be redirecting our eyes back to our heavenly Father. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca […]
Guest speaker Nick Corbin asks what does God think? Preaching from Philippians 2 he offers four answers: Citizens of heaven are to be unified and love one another; Selfish ambition poisons unity; Christ is the antidote and; Servanthood is the result. Our speaker this weekend is Nick Corbin. Originally from Iowa, Nick has lived in […]
An ‘Eye an Eye’ has been around for thousands of years, but His sermon on the mount Jesus calls His followers to something far more revolutionary. He calls us to not retaliate about overcome evil with good. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]
Truth and honesty are the basis for a healthy relationship and society. This explains Jesus problem with oath-making: it assumes a world in which being honest must be promised. In Jesus’ kingdom, his people are consistently honest. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]
The topics of marriage, divorce, and love are confusing and challenging to talk about. Alex situates Jesus’ teaching within the broader vision of marriage in Scripture and follows with an explanation of when divorce is permitted. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we […]
Our friend Aaron White of 24/7 Prayer preaches on Jesus’ difficult teaching on the sermon on the mount to love your enemies. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website […]
Alex draws from Mark 1:17 and 1 Timothy 4:8. When Jesus calls people to follow Him he makes a promise to change them. Alex outlines how God changes people, explains the goal of spiritual practices and the role they play in growing to become like Jesus. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of […]
By examining Ecclesiastes 3:4 and Matthew 5:3 and looking at the life of Jesus, Alex highlights the importance of embracing grief and pain, what is a stake if we avoid it, and how can we can move through it.
Alex shares some reflections on the past year, describes the season our church is in, and how we can respond to it. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website […]
Alex teaches on how being filled with the Spirit transforms the way children and parents interact with one another. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website at http://cascadeschurch.ca LINKS […]
Guest speaker Brad Bruneski preaches on contentment that is available in Jesus from Philippians 4:10-13. Content is something you can learn. It is not dependent on your circumstances. It is also a struggle in times of lack and abundance. Brad has pastored for 8 years and is currently a Pastoral Resident at The Way Church […]
Pastor Ian preaches from Acts 22. Paul shares his testimony of how his life completely changed when he met Jesus on the road to Damascus. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, […]
Alex preaches on how Jesus takes people who were previously distant and hostile and unites them through his life, death and resurrection. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like to learn more about Cascades Church, visit our website […]
What happens when people encounter the risen Lord? Failures receive second chances. In this message, missionary and teacher Jurgen Schulz examines Peter’s encounter with Jesus in John 21. Because Christ is risen, Peter goes from a failed disciple to being restored by Jesus and receiving a fresh commission. Cascades Church is a church in the […]
In this message, Alex preaches from Acts 4:1-22. As a result of the Christ’s resurrection and the gift of the Holy Spirit Peter and John are transformed. This change is most clearly revealed in looking at how they responded to Jesus trial and their own trial before the religious leaders. During Jesus’s trial before the […]
Aaron White of 24/7 Prayer Canada draws from the Gospel accounts to examine Mary’s life and the example she sets for the disciples of Jesus by fully surrendering to God’s purposes. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as we follow Jesus. If you’d like […]
In this message, Nic Toney, Campus Chaplain at PLBC, preaches from Luke 24:13-35 tracing out how two disciples go from great sorrow to rejoicing as the resurrected Lord walks alongside them, explaining the Scriptures, and eating with them.
Alex preaches from John 20:24-29 examining Thomas’s journey from doubting the resurrection to confessing Jesus is Lord and God. In light of how common doubt is for disciples of Jesus, Alex invites listeners to doubt their doubts, to put themselves in places where they can encounter Jesus, and to define success as trusting Jesus.
In this Easter message, Alex preaches from John 20:1-18. The death of Jesus is the beginning of God’s new creation and anyone who is in Christ is a new creation.
In this Good Friday message, Alex preaches from Luke 23:44-47. Death by crucifixion was terrible and yet Jesus chose to die. In John 10 Jesus says, “No one takes [my life] I lay it down of my own accord.” Why? Because Jesus so loved humanity that He willingly identified with humanity. Identifying with humanity meant […]
Our friend Aaron White, of 24/7 Prayer, preaches on the power of the Lord’s Supper. From start to finish, Scripture is full of meals. Eating together is an incredibly intimate thing, and it is part of God’s plan for His children. But eating in disobedience (in the Garden) broke a series of relationships. Jesus’ Last […]
Alex preaches on Mary’s anointing of Jesus in Bethany. Mary’s extravagant act of devotion was misunderstood and criticized by those present. Yet Jesus defends her. Jesus loves what she does. Mary’s actions point to what He will do for us on the cross. Mary pours out her precious alabaster on Jesus but Jesus will pour […]
Our friend, Pastor Ryan Drennan of CA Church, preaches on Jesus’s words from the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:27-30, Jesus reinterprets the seventh commandment on the issue of adultery. He raises the listeners’ understanding of this commandment from mere behaviour modification and law-observance to a matter of the heart. Jesus illustrates that sexual […]
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus outlines the way of being human. Jesus forbids us from ‘carrying’ anger. His disciples aren’t to be angry people, because in our anger we often strip people of their worth through our words, attitudes, and actions. Instead, Jesus calls his people to zealously pursue reconciliation with those we’ve […]
Jesus explains he’s come to fulfill the Law and Prophets, not abolish it, but what exactly does that mean? Jesus fulfilled it through his sacrificial obedience, explaining the deeper meaning behind the Law, and providing greater righteousness to all those who respond to His good news.
Jesus calls His people to embrace who He’s called us to be. After telling his disciples that anyone who follows Him will experience the same rejection He does, Jesus teaches his people about who they are using two metaphors. He uses to salt and light communicate the same idea: His disciples exist for good of […]
We look at the eighth and final Beatitude where Jesus ‘walks onto the stage’ and ties not only righteousness, but all of the Beatitudes to Himself. The Way of Jesus and His Kingdom is subversive to the dominant ways of being, doing, and speaking. Alex highlights how those who choose to follow Jesus to a […]
Aaron White of 24/7 Prayer Canada preaches from Matthew 5:9. He shares how the Beatitudes are Jesus’ progressive invitation into His life. He highlights how the peacemaker blessing is an identity to which we are all called and explains what it means to be called a child of God.
We become pure in heart by responding to Jesus’s invitation to come and follow Him. When we follow Jesus He begins to cleanse and restore our hearts. Alex then outlines 5 characteristics of the pure in heart.
Mercy is central to who Jesus is and what Jesus is all about. But what Jesus mean when he blesses the merciful? Alex looks at how mercy is at the core of God’s character and how when we embrace Jesus and His good news mercy begins to shape how we live and interact with others.
The Beatitudes are not blessings you receive for something you produce; they are pictures of what happens to you when you embrace Jesus and His good news. This Sunday Alex looks at the fourth Beatitude explaining the nature and meaning of righteousness, the kind of hunger Jesus speaks of, and how those who trust Him […]
Pastor Ryan Drennan of CA Church teaches on what Jesus means by the meek and five important habits of the meek.
If the Beatitudes are part of Jesus laying out His vision for the good life his second Beatitude may be the most confusing. Mourners blessed? How can this be? What are they grieving? What’s so good about mourning? Alex explains how when we encounter Jesus: He gives us permission to grieve, we begin to be […]
Alex preaches on the first Beatitude explaining ‘blessed’ doesn’t always mean what we think it does, who the poor in spirit are, and why the kingdom of heaven is for them.
In this first message of the year, Alex lays out a call to join us as seek to become fully devoted to Jesus and His Way by worshiping with us, growing with us, and going with us. Cascades Church is a church in the heart of Metro Vancouver longing to see our city renewed as […]
During Cascade Church’s Christmas Eve service, Pastor Alex concludes the current sermon series, The Wonder of Christmas. Christmas Offering This year we are taking a special offering for those impacted by heavy rains and flooding in BC. Many families, businesses, and farms have been devastated by severe flooding caused by the heavy rains in November. […]
Pastor David Wood, of CA Church, continues the current sermon series “The Wonder of Christmas” by preaching from Matthew 1:18–2:12.
Alex continues the sermon series on the wonder of Christmas examining what the angels announced and why they broke out into praise and joy.
Pastor Alex continues The Wonder of Christmas series by examining the angel Gabriel’s perspective
CA Church Pastor Ryan Drennan kicks off a new series on The Wonder of Christmas. This sermon examines Mary’s response to the news Gabriel delivers.
Alex preaches from Matthew 4:17-22 where Jesus calls four fishermen to drop their nets and leave their father to follow Him. Jesus’s call for these four mirrors his call to us: if we are going o truly follow Him, we too will have to lay something down. There is a cost and promise to following […]
In this message Alex asks, what was Jesus’s gospel? Who was it directed to? And how does He call us to respond?
Alex preaches from Matthew 4:1-11. He discusses the testing Jesus faced in the wilderness, the role of the wilderness in Scripture, and how Jesus is the true and faithful Son of God.
Pastor David Wood of CA Church preaches from Philippians 1:21. In this message, he looks back at how early Christians faced hostility, threats, and even death and despite expectations grew as a community at an exponential rate.
Pastor David Wood of CA Church preaches the first message in a Mini-Series called, Revive Us Again. In this message, David offers powerful vision for the church today, by laying out pictures of Community demonstrated in the Early Church and calling us to recover some of their practices. Cascades Church is a church in the […]
Alex preaches from Matthew 2, highlighting 3 ideas and one question from the chapter: The King has arrived; the wait for redemption is over; a new stage in God’s relationship with His People has begun; and, have you missed it?
Alex begins our series in the Gospel of Matthew. The first sentence and subsequent genealogy set the stage for the new beginning that Jesus brings.
Alex speaks about God’s heart for children and the lost as revealed in Jesus. He draws from Mark 10 and Luke 15.
Alex preaches from Psalm 23:4-6 unpacking three observations that flow from making the Lord your Shepherd (1) His Presence is with you in the valleys of life, (2) joy is possible now, and (3) His goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life.
Pastor Chris Price of The Way Church preaches on how Jesus’ used meals to show people the kind of Kingdom he was ushering in–one that invited unrighteous and self-righteous to the same table.
Alex preaches from Psalm 8 highlighting the Psalmist praises God’s creativity and mighty power, God’s care, and God’s calling for humanity.
Alex preaches from Psalm 4 highlight two observations: (1) God is present in the midst of our trouble and (2) Life works best when God is at the centre.
Alex preaches from Psalm 1 contrasting two ways of life with divergent outcomes. Only one way leads to flourishing. This is the way that Jesus himself identifies with and the way He practiced.
Despite a rapidly changing and evolving social world, guest speaker Dr. Ronald Edgecombe notes how the center of it all is an Almighty God who never changes and encourages taking hold of God’s unchanging hand.
Guest speaker Dr. Ronald Edgecombe introduces and speaks on Messianic Psalm 118, encouraging thankfulness for God’s faithful love.
In the third and final part of a focus on the armour of God from Ephesians 6:10-18 Alex unpacks the Sword of the Spirit and Praying in the Spirit.
In the second part of a three part focus on the armour of God Alex preaches from Ephesians 6:10-20 unpacks the next two items of the armour of God: faith and salvation.
Alex outlines our church’s vision and ends with a call to pursue the presence of God, contend for the promises of God, and contend with a radical commitment to be formed by Jesus and His Way.
Alex unpacks the first 3 items the Apostle Paul calls believers to put on in order to stand firm and resist schemes of evil in our world: truth, righteousness, and the gospel of peace.
Pastor Alex preaches from Ephesians 6:10-12 outlining the call to be strong in the Lord and put on the full amour of God in order to stand against the Enemy’s schemes.
Acts 2 tells the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit. God sent the Spirit to fill his people with his presence, to empower them to make Jesus known, and to unite them under the banner of Jesus.
This special message reflects on key moments God moved among His people at Cascades. It ends with a call to respond with a radical devotion to Jesus, commitment to His Way, and to making Him known.
Alex preaches from Philippians 4:4-7, outlining how joy in the midst of pain is possible.
Guest Speaker Chris Price of The Way Church unpacks Ephesians 6:5-9 showing how the Gospel works like a herbicide on bad weed for the broken system of slavery in the 1st Century.
Alex preaches through Ephesians 5:21-33. Paul takes the outworking of being filled with the Spirit: ‘submitting to one another for reverence in Christ’ and begins to apply it to the realm of marriage.
Alex preaches through Ephesians 5:15-21. The call of every Christian is to be filled with the Spirit of God. Alex outlining why it matters, who the Spirit is and how we can be filled with the Spirit.
Pastor Alex preaches from John 20:1-18 unpacking what the resurrection of Jesus means for us.
In this message Pastor Alex unpacks why we call Good Friday good by looking at Jesus’s famous last words, “It is finished.”
Ron Edgecombe unpacks Jesus’ words in the Gospel of John, “I thirst,” looking what they meant and how it impacts us today. (John 19:28-29).