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Judging and Being Judged
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 31, 2015
We make judgements about other people based on how they look, what they eat, how they raise their children, how they spend their time and money, and the list goes on. What should we do with these thoughts? Are they bad? People often quote Jesus saying, “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1). But He also said, “Do not judge according to the appearance, but judge with just judgement” (John 7:24). Join us this Sunday as we explore with this important aspect of human relationships. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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One Sinner That Repents
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 24, 2015
The topic for this Sunday is the Lord's mercy. Is the Lord always merciful? Does that mean that it doesn't matter how we live our lives? | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSA
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Life After Death
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 17, 2015
On Sunday we conclude our two-part series on dying, death, and grief. This Sunday we will focus on life after death. What happens to a person's spirit when their body has died? Are they in some sense still with us? And how do those of us who are left behind continue to live with hope and joy after the death of a loved one? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Life Before Death
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - May 10, 2015
On Sunday we begin a two-part series on dying, death, and grief. This Sunday we will focus on life before death. What is the value and purpose of natural life? Why do some people die earlier than others? What comfort and perspective does the Lord offer in His Word to those who are approaching death or grieving the death of a loved one? Also, Being Mother's Day the children's talk focuses on the value of parents and mother's in particular. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Be the Church 3 - Repenting of Evil and Serving Others
Worship Service: Sermon only - May 03, 2015
We’ve been talking for the past two weeks about different essential aspects of being part of a church. This Sunday we’re talking about how those different aspects all come together and what the ultimate factor is that determines whether you’re part of the spiritual community that’s following the Lord or not. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Be the Church Part 2: “ Learning from the Word and Sharing Truth"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 26, 2015
What does it mean to be part of a church? We're in the second week of our three part series called "Be the Church." Last week we talked about the heart side of being the church: loving God, loving one another. This week we're talking about the head side of things: learning from the Word of God and sharing the truth with others. How do we learn meaningful things from the Lord's Word? And how do we share the truth we know with others without being "preachy" or patronising? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Be the Church Part 1: "Worshipping the Lord & Caring in Community"
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 19, 2015
What is the purpose of church? What does it mean to be part of a church? Are churches still relevant in the 21st century? These are some of the questions that we're going to be digging into this Sunday and in the two weeks that follow. The church can be so much more than just a building you walk into; it can be something that changes your life. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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The Road to Emmaus
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - April 12, 2015
Have you been disappointed in how little your religion has changed your life? Does it not seem to have the power you wanted it to have, to bring change and happiness into your relationships? One part of the Easter story addresses this. | By Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss, Sr. | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do Wk 7 – Love Rejoices
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 22, 2015
This Sunday we end our 7 week program with the same question that we asked at the beginning and throughout the program: what would love do? What is the loving thing to do for all the people we interact with in our lives with all their different needs and situations? And, as we try to push ourselves to become more loving, how do we not become worn out and jaded in the process? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do Wk 6 – Love Is Present
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 15, 2015
This Sunday we continue the What Would Love Do? program, talking about the different ways that we are called upon by the Lord to love and serve other people. This week we will particularly focus on what it means to go to those in prison. How can we serve those who are trapped by false ways of thinking? What does it mean to be present with them? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love do -Wk 5: Love Visits
Worship Service: Sermon only - March 08, 2015
Continuing our series on the different ways we are called to love and serve other people (What Would Love Do?), this week we're focusing on how to help the sick. Being sick is awful and it can be hard to be around people who are sick or know how to help them. What does the Lord teach us about how to serve this obvious but difficult need? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do, Week 4 – Love Serves
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - March 01, 2015
This Sunday we continue the What Would Love Do? program, talking about the different ways that we are called upon by the Lord to love and serve other people. This week we will particularly focus on how to clothe the naked - both giving clothes to those who are physically in need, and offering comfort to those who are spiritually naked. | By Rev. Erik J. Buss | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do, Week 3 – Love Welcomes
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 22, 2015
This Sunday we continue the What Would Love Do? programme, talking about the different ways that we are called upon by the Lord to love and serve other people. This week we will particularly focus on how to welcome the stranger or sojourner - both those who are physically displaced, and those on a spiritual journey. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do - Wk 2 – Love Brings Truth
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 15, 2015
This Sunday we continue the What Would Love Do? program, talking about the different ways that we are called upon by the Lord to love and serve other people. This week we will particularly focus on how to serve the thirsty - the physically thirsty and those who thirst for the truth they need to live well. | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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What Would Love Do - Week 1 - Love Serves
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - February 08, 2015
This Sunday we begin the What Would Love Do? program by talking about the different ways that we are called upon by the Lord to love and serve other people. This week we will particularly focus on how to serve the hungry - the physically hungry and the emotionally and spiritually hungry. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Fullness of Joy
Worship Service: Informal Family - February 01, 2015
This Sunday we celebrate the founding of Kainon School. The theme for the service (which is based on the spiritual theme for the school year at Kainon) is “Fullness of Joy”. It sounds wonderful to be full of joy – we want that for ourselves and for those that we love – but is it possible to achieve in this world? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Lord, Teach Us to Pray
Worship Service: Sermon only - January 18, 2015
Many of us have questions about prayer: how should we pray? Who do I pray to? And does my prayer actually make a difference? The Lord's disciples had similar questions, and this Sunday we'll be talking about the Lord's response when they said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray." | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Take Up Your Bed and Walk
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - January 04, 2015
The Lord healed a man who had been sick for 38 years sitting by the pool at Bethesda hoping for someone to put him in the water at the right time. He assumed that that was the only way he could be healed. But the Lord gave him a very simple instruction. Are our assumptions preventing us from moving forward and being 'healed'? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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The Word made Flesh
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - December 21, 2014
From eternity to eternity, God is unchanging. And yet, at a specific point in time, God broke into creation in a radical new way. The God of the universe took on a body of flesh and was born into the world. But what does that mean for us here and now? To put it another way: why does Christmas matter? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Understanding John 3:16
Worship Service: Sermon only - December 14, 2014
John 3:16 is a key text for a lot of Christians in understanding why Jesus was born in the world. It says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only-begotten Son, that everyone who believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” But how do we understand what is meant by this? Who is God? Who is His Only-begotten Son? What does it mean to believe in Him? Why will people who don’t believe in Him perish and not have eternal life? If we can find good answers to these questions we will have a much better understanding of the significance of Christmas. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Do Not Resist Evil, Part 4 – Worthlessness and Shame
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 30, 2014
"You're absolutely worthless!" "I'm a useless piece of..." Do you ever hear these words--from other people or inside your own head? Are they true? Are you worthless? Or think about it the other way: if you are not worthless, why do you have worth? What makes you worthy? It's tricky to sort out. And dealing with feelings of worthlessness is even harder. But the Lord can help us to understand and deal with all of this, and differently from what we might expect. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Do Not Resist Evil, Part 3: Understanding and Responding to Fear
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 23, 2014
What do you worry about? What are you scared of doing? How does fear or anxiety affect your behaviour and relationships? We all have to deal with fears of various kinds and, if we don’t deal with them appropriately, they can lead us to all sorts of unhealthy and dysfunctional behaviours. But, as we’ve already talked about with doubt and guilt, just pushing feelings of fear away doesn’t work. This Sunday we’ll talk about what the Lord teaches us about how to respond to fear. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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Do Not Resist Evil 2: Guilt Good and Bad
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - November 16, 2014
When we are attacked by feelings of doubt, guilt, fear, or worthlessness, we often try (and fail) to simply push those feelings away. But there is another way: instead of resisting these things, we can take what is valuable from them, and let the rest pass us by. This week, the second in a four-part series, we will focus specifically on how to do this with guilt. How can we learn to distinguish between “good guilt” and “bad guilt”, and how can “good guilt” lead to positive changes? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Do Not Resist Evil 1– Dealing With Doubt
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 09, 2014
When we are attacked by feelings of doubt, shame, fear, or worthlessness, we often try to simply push those feelings away. It usually doesn’t work. But there is another way: instead of resisting these things, we can let ourselves experience them. We can even see what is valuable in them, and let the rest pass on by. This week, the first in a four-part series, we will focus specifically on how to do this with doubt. From our mundane doubts about that day's decisions, to the big doubts about God and the purpose of life - how do we honestly face our doubts without being overwhelmed by them? | By Rev. Coleman S. Glenn | Westville, RSA
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Living Gratefully 2 - How to Practice Gratitude
Worship Service: Sermon only - November 02, 2014
Last Sunday we talked about the need for gratitude in our lives and the difference it can make. This week we're going to dig into how to practice gratitude. What habits and practices can we put into our lives so that we live every day gratefully? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith | Westville, RSA
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