First Ave Church: Recent Episodes
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What do you when you have no backup plan? It's time to go all in on Plan A. Pastor Jesse encourages us to live a life that is fully committed to following Jesus no matter the cost.
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Sometimes the darkness is the only way to see the light. Pastor Craig shares an inspiring and encouraging message for everyone as we enter the last week of Advent.
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Have you ever felt like you had no way out? Maybe it's because it's exactly where you're supposed to be. Pastor Craig shares with us on the beauty of God's timing in the Christmas story.
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How do you respond to uncertainty? The last thing you'd want to do is rejoice, but that could be the best thing you could do. Pastor Craig shares with us how we can be like Mary in the Christmas narrative and respond to uncertainty with rejoicing.
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What do we do when we are waiting for the promise to be fulfilled? Pastor Craig starts our Christmas series "Comfort and Joy" off with a message that inspires us to find solace in the silence.
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Christianity is not about what you get out of it, but how you love and serve out of a relationship with God. Pastor Craig finishes off our Proof of Life series with a challenge to consumer Christianity.
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There is a difference between hearing and doing, but even more than that is being. Pastor Craig takes us into a well-known passage and invites us to view it in a different way.
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What are you battling today? Maybe it's time to stop fighting it and give it to God. Pastor Craig teaches from James 4 on how we can fight the right battles, and give the rest to God.
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Waiting can be an agonizing season of life, but from patience comes strength. Pastor Craig teaches us how we can change our perspective on how we can handle the storms in our lives.
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What happens to our faith when you experience trials and tragedies? Pastor Craig shares an encouraging message on how hardships help us grow as followers of Jesus.
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What if what God is doing in us is supposed to happen around us? Pastor Craig teaches on how we can see God move in our communities and see "seismic" spiritual wonders done ion our midst.
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Are you full or are you less? Pastor Craig shares an inspiring one-off message for Thanksgiving on how we can be thank-full.
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We are pursuing the person and presence of God in us, ____ ___. Pastor Craig fills in the blank of the next part of our vision here at First Ave.
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We are pursuing the person and presence of God __ __. Pastor Craig fills in the blank of the next part of our vision here at First Ave.
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Are we pausing, listening and turning our affection towards God? Pastor Craig shares the next part of our vision here at First Ave.
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What is in a vision? Pastor Craig reveals and teaches the first part of our new vision at First Ave.
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What's next for our church? Pastor Craig gives an inspiring message on what lies ahead for us.
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How do you rebuild your faith when you're left in ruins? Pastor Jesse Leimer shares with us how we can rediscover the purpose of our faith and live a fulfilling life with Jesus post-Covid.
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Have you told your family about Jesus yet? Our guest speaker, Gavin Brisco, teaches us why and how we should be talking about Jesus with our family through historical Judeo-Christian traditions.
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We've got a secret that will allow you to live for 200 years and beyond. Pastor Craig shows us how to leave a legacy that extends past the end of your story.
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The generosity of others can make your day. However, the greatest gift has already been offered to us. Pastor Craig invites us step out of stubbornness and to accept the grace that God has given.
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Covid has made an immense change to our world but how are we now supposed to live coming out of this pandemic? Pastor Craig begins to explore the importance of community through the redirection of life.
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Sometimes it can be frustrating when it seems like God is focusing on others and not us. Pastor Darin Latham reminds us of the importance of trust in God's timing.
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I don't care has become a popular saying in the English language. The problem the the "I don't care" attitude is when we adopt it into our spiritual lives. Pastor Craig calls us to be passionate about our faith in God.
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Through the busyness of the world it can be easy to forget the importance of daily trusting in God. Pastor Craig brings us back to necessity of remembering the goodness of God through all of life. Examining the Church in Philadelphia in Revelation 3 the vitality of endurance of Christian faith can be understood.
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In a world fuelled with competition and comparison it can be easy for us to want to take short cuts to be the best. However, many shortcuts can hinder us from developing. Pastor Jesse talks about the problem of the church of Sardis in Revelations 3 and the importance of leaving it all on the field.
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In a world full of brokenness and hurt it is important that we reconcile with those that we have hurt. Pastor Craig explains the importance of not only recognizing the hurt of the past but bringing restoration to the relationships with the Indigenous people that have been broken.
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Churches can often present "extra" teachings to their congregation. Pastor Craig walks through the letters to the churches of Pergamum and Thyatira in Revelation 2. Let's choose to stand up for God in being determined to not tolerate the extra teachings.
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Do you ever get knocked down by life? How are we supposed to keep fighting when life is determined to get us down? Pastor Craig McKibbon walks through the letter to the church of Smyrna in Revelation 2 to explain how to live a life of perseverance.
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Do you ever feel like your relationship with God is in need of saving? Just like bad dates sometimes our relationship with God also needs to be saved. Pastor Craig breaks down the need for revitalization of our relationship with God.
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Do you ever feel like people are cutting in front of your blessing? It can be difficult to trust in in the hurting while others are receiving deliverance. Pastor Craig unpacks the importance of waiting for the outpouring in your life.
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In our modern culture of busyness, it can seem boring to stop and rest. But what if God is calling us to rest? Pastor Jesse walks us through the importance of stillness in our lives.
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Tithing can be a point of difficulty in the lives of many Christians. Pastor Craig promises to speak the truth in love as he breaks down the importance of tithing not only in the future of the church but also in our future.
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Women have been hindered by the Church for far too long. So where do we go from here? It starts with atonement with a cost. Pastor Craig teaches this week on how the Church and men can do their part to stop hindering women from leadership.
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Suffering is inevitable in this world. How do we reconcile the existence of suffering with God's existence? Pastor Craig teaches on how we can survive suffering even when it seems impossible to do so.
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Resiliency can be hard to come by. How do you thrive in any and every circumstance? Pastor Craig McKibbon teaches on the secret of how to do so using one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible.
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What would your life look like if the COVID pandemic never happened? Everything would be different. This week Pastor Craig McKibbon shares an inspiring message, based on how the COVID pandemic has changed his life.
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What is important in life? This week guest speaker, Pastor Gavin Brisco, brings a great message on what counts in our lives with Christ.
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What's Next? We constantly are looking into the future to see what is next for us, whether it be a new job, finishing school or even looking forward to a holiday or a birthday. This Easter Sunday Pastor Craig McKibbon shares on what is next for us, regardless of our stage of life, or what season we are in.
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Good Friday is a time for us to reflect on the cross and the light Jesus brought into our darkness. Pastors Craig and Kerry recorded a fireside experience with our worship team to share part one of two of our First Love Easter message. For part two, listen to the next episode called We Didn't Start The Fire.
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What would you do if you were rich? Pastor Craig challenges us to live a life that is rich with the fruit of our faith by showing love first.
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Society depicts loving someone as feelings, and based on the way you feel that is how much you love someone. This week Pastor Craig McKibbon teaches about how love is not based on feelings, and how to better love others.
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In the midst of one of the worst years on record, have you lost your capability to love others? Pastor Craig starts a new series called First Love and teaches us how to regain our ability to love people again.
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Have you ever lost hope? Whether it be battling depression, a diagnoses, unemployment, or just a tough season? These are all examples of the storms of life that, through an amazing message, Pastor Jesse Leimer teaches how to manage ourselves.
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It is so easy to get wrapped up in our feelings, and how we feel about other people. Our lenses of other people are distorted and can cause bitterness towards these people. This week pastor Craig McKibbon teaches the importance of peace when combatting bitterness.
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Today's culture screams, "focus on yourself, work on yourself!" but we are all still so obsessed with other people and what they are doing wrong. This week Pastor Craig McKibbon teaches how this pride can affect the relationships that we are in.
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Relationships are hard, and with the amount of distractions that come up in every day life it is hard to spend as much time working on our relationships as we want or need to. Today Pastor Craig McKibbon shares how all of our relationships are to honour God, and what roles they play in our lives.
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There is so much conflict and division in our world today, and as Christians we are to set an example for the rest of the world. This week Pastor Craig McKibbon teaches about living in harmony with one another.
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When we think of worship the first thing we usually think of is singing and praise. This week Pastor Craig McKibbon teaches how worship can look different than "stereotypical worship," and how different people worship in different ways.
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"Don't think about what you have to do. Think about what you get to do!" This weeks message by Pastor Craig Mckibbon examines ways that we can reshape our thoughts so that we can count our blessings instead of counting our defeats.
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Sometimes we are looking for recognition of our good works when we really need the proof of God's workings. Pastor Craig McKibbon leads us through the importance of recognizing the proof of God, instead of searching for the recognition from others.
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If changing your life meant letting go, would you do it? Pastor Craig McKibbon kicks off our new series Straight Outta Matthew about how what we don't let go of, won't let go of us.
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What if we need to re-solve the issue? Pastor Craig McKibbon opens 2021 with a message about how we may need to re-look and re-examine our problems through the lens of the Gospel so that we can find a New Solution.
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