Lessons From The Desert – May 22, 2022

Numbers 6

Pastor Enoch Chee

Some of us are going through trouble in life. And it feels unfair or it feels like it never ends. And we’re wondering, what is God doing? We thought he was looking out for us! But sometimes life makes no sense.

Which leads me to my big question today. I want to ask, what can we know about God’s plan for our future? I believe if we can answer this question, we’ll be able to live more boldly with more courage and less anxiety. So as always let’s turn to the Bible for our answer.

Lessons From The Desert – May 15, 2022

Numbers 16

Pastor David Cay

Whenever there is influence there is leadership, all of us have a level of influence on our friends and family. So in that way we all lead and if we lead well, we can bring out the best in others but if we lead poorly it could lead to bad consequences.

So my question today is: What kind of leader does God want us to be? Our Bible story today is about a confrontation between two leaders – Moses and Korah. It’s a story of a good leader and a bad leader, and it reveals two traits that we can all work on:

1. Bad leadership puts personal convenience first
2. Good leadership puts others first

Lessons From The Desert – May 8, 2022

Numbers 14

Pastor Tim Nguyen

There are so many toxic cycles we fall into. We can have a toxic cycle with body image, where we have a bipolar relationship with food and fitness. We can fall into the same toxic dating patterns where I’m sure you see it with your friends but people date the same kind of terrible partners over and over again. And we don’t know why. There are cycles of unhealthy mindsets like rage quitting where you’d fall into the mentality of “screw it, everyone sucks, nothing matters. Nothing I do changes anything.” But of all these cycles, the greatest one that encompasses the rest is the cycle of sin.

Now what is sin? Sin is missing the mark. When you do something that is off-track with what life should be about. With that said, sin is not simply a rare mistake someone makes once in a while but rather, it can be defined as not living with perfect values that God has intended. Things like love, justice, mercy and faithfulness. Whenever our lives are off track with that, that’s sin. And you probably realize that nobody can do that perfectly. And so every Christian, no matter how mature they are, must constantly deal with this vicious cycle of sin. If we are arrogant or appethic to our sin, our rebellion, our toxic tendencies and cycles, it’s going to cost you a lot in the future.

And so that leads us to our question: How do we break out of a cycle of sin?

And the answer we see today in our passage is that we break out of our cycle of sin when we:

  1. Lean on God’s character
  2. Learn from sin’s consequences

Lessons From The Desert – May 1, 2022

Numbers 13

Pastor Enoch Chee

As Christians there are things we can do to get stronger and healthier spiritually.

I believe if you understand WHY we train spiritually, you’ll have a much better chance of sticking to a good routine. Because when you understand what’s going on spiritually, you will see your life does depend on your spiritual fitness. And not only your life but the lives of people around you.

So my question is, why should we train spiritually? And the answer I want to show you is that We train to SEE and INFLUENCE in life- changing ways.

Easter (The Great Commission) – April 24, 2022

Matthew 28:16-20

Pastor David Cay

The way we respond to important events can make a big difference in our life. If we don’t respond properly we can miss out on what’s most important. So today, I’m going to talk about responding well to arguably the most important event in all of history.

So my main question today is: how do we respond to the news of the resurrection of Jesus?

This past Easter we celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus. We celebrate Jesus’ victory over death. But what do we do after? There are many times people hear the story and they just walk away- some people respond with hostility.

There is a better response to the resurrection of Jesus – one that gives us a purpose and a mission.

Our Bible passage today comes from Matthew 28:16-20. These are Jesus’ instructions to his disciples after his resurrection.

Our Bible passage teaches us the right response to the resurrection is confident evangelism, and confident discipleship.

Easter Sunday – April 18, 2022

Luke 24:13-35

Pastor Tim Nguyen


It’s mind-blowing, that the disciples of Jesus were face-to-face with the greatest event in history; the resurrection of Jesus where, HE IS RISEN and they were face-to-face with the Risen Jesus himself, and they were completely blind to it.

I think this story is in the Bible to teach us that we are often like these disciples; blind to the greatness, mission and presence of Jesus.

And so our focus question today is, How do we deal with Spiritual Blindness? Through our story today, we learn that we can deal with spiritual blindness through:

1. The word of God
2. The community of God

Easter (Palm Sunday) – April 10, 2022

Luke 19:28-40

Pastor David Cay

We can all empathize with the anguish of having to make a hard decision. Many times we are faced with choices that are painful and difficult. But as Christians, we have reliable principles that guide us to make the right choices even in the hard times

Our Bible story today demonstrates one of the most important principles we can learn in this life. It’s the story of Palm Sunday, also known as the triumphal entry, where Jesus enters Jerusalem on the final week leading up to the cross.

Our Bible story demonstrates two principles.

  1. All of creation was made to submit to God
  2. All of creation was made to glorify God.

Mental Health – April 3, 2022

Psalm 3

Pastor Tim Nguyen

How do we face overwhelming trouble?

I think often times, when we are overwhelmed, it’s not this sudden thing and you have to figure out what to do right away. It’s usually something that slowly builds up. Like procrastinating projects and neglecting responsibilities for a long time…  we let it gradually build up until we can’t handle it anymore.

This has been a common pattern and theme recently because I’ve been in contact with a lot of people who are just falling apart emotionally and mentally. More often than not, we’re stuck in these problems for a very long time.

But we find hope in the middle of overwhelming trouble when we
1. Go to God
2. Trust what God says

Mental Health – March 27, 2022

Matthew 11:28-29

Pastor David Cay

Like it or not, we all have to deal with expectations- we carry not only our own expectations but the expectations of others- our parents and society. And some expectations are perfectly okay, it’s healthy to have some expectations because they prevent us from wasting our time.

On the other hand, if we take on every single persons expectations and also societies expectations it won’t be a surprise if it crushes us. So my question today is: how can we find healthy expectations?

We find our answer in the Bible from the words of Jesus:

1. Culture can burden us with unhealthy expectations
2. Jesus burdens us with healthy expectations

Mental Health – March 20, 2022

Ephesians 5:15-20

Pastor Tony Henshall
Lifeline Ministries Edmonton

How can we overcome addictions?

Addictions come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. There are of course addictions to hard drugs. But there are other kinds of addictions. Internet addiction, gaming addiction, an addiction to buying things or keeping things, an addiction to approval, an addiction to being in love.

As a rule, addictions take over our lives and prevent us from doing the healthy things we were meant to do.

Probably all of us get into a rut, where we know something in our life has too much of a hold on our heart and yet, it’s hard to stop. And so, we all need to know how to control our addictions. Because if we can maintain balance, we can be healthy individuals, with healthy relationships, who help people and have the best possible future.

The Good News is that… The Bible shows us the way to overcome addictions.

1. We should expect trouble, and
2. We should share God’s mission