Willingdon Church Sermons

Christ Our Passover Lamb

Hope for the Future

The Gospel of Jesus, According to Abraham

For many of us, the gospel, the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus for our sins, is found exclusively in the New Testament. But the Story of Abraham brings us to the very heart of the...

The First Promise of Salvation

The very first promise of salvation is found at the very beginning of our Bible. At the moment when humanity’s history never seemed so bleak, the Bible gives an undying hope that has sustained the...

Finding Christ in the Old Testament

Acknowledging Jesus as Lord

Encountering Jesus...Again

Fishing with Jesus

One of the most important questions any local church must ask is, “Why are we here?” “What is our task?” “What is our primary task?” Once having answered that, every church must understand that...

That You May Believe

The Resurrection Peace

The Day that Changed the World

No human being saw the resurrection of Jesus. It was seen by God and by angels. That should not surprise us. No human being saw the creation of the world. Yet we have witnessed the results of the...

Why He Chose To Suffer

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The Mystery of the Cross

One cannot help but come to the cross and see it as a place of controversy. For some, the cross is the evidence that Jesus is not Lord at all. For here he was made a spectacle, subjected to...

What is Truth?

Perhaps you have been in a philosophy class in university where the issue of truth has been discussed. Perhaps you have confronted someone who has lied. Perhaps you have a record of deceiving others...

Powerful Words

Words are powerful. They can have a profound impact on how we act, who we are and even on the future direction of our life. They can lead us or mislead us; they can anchor us or entrap us. But unlike...

Authority and Suffering?

Most people believe that suffering is the result of loss of control. However we suffer, be it physically, psychologically, financially or because of defeat from enemies, suffering is the signal that...

Suffering and Vindication

Today we begin a new series, taking us from John 18-22. This is the passage in John that deals with the suffering, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. This series will take us right into the Good...

The Joy of Giving

There are two ways to begin a sermon on giving. One is to entitle it the guilt of giving, the other the joy of giving. Today we shall attempt the latter. But can giving really be joy and not guilt?...

How to Handle Money

Proverbs is a book intended to teach us skill in living. One of the skills each of us needs to live well, is skill in handling money. Some have, through the use of money, wandered from the faith and...

What is Money? (10 Lessons from 3 Parables of Jesus)

Luke 16:1-13, Matthew 25:14-30, Luke 19:11-27

Final Words to an Unruly Church

Paul’s Corinthian letter is unique among his letters. This letter deals with an unruly church that must be rebuked, with faulty problems that must be corrected. The letter simply goes through problem...

The End of Death

Death is a topic that few of us like talking about. Although it is a universal human experience, people through all ages and in all cultures have sought to find ways to stand against it, lessen its...

You Were Made For This!

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Changed By Truth

Sometimes people have the misconception that doctrine is not practical.  But in fact, all doctrine profoundly alters the way we live.  By that I don’t mean, the kind of doctrine that produces idle...

The Believer’s Hope

What happens at the point of death?  There are only a few options.  The option of the Atheist is that there is nothing at death.  There is eternal non-existence that forever ends all hopes, dreams...

One Thing I Know For Sure

At the start of a new year, many people make resolutions.  There is nothing wrong with this.  Resolutions can help us clarify direction in our lives.

Come Let Us Adore Him?

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What’s in a Name?

It was Shakespeare’s character Juliet who first said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The idea behind that line is that the names of things do not matter, but only what things are.

The Meekness and Majesty of Christmas

The account of the announcement of the birth of Jesus is good news. Of course it is the news that the Messiah was coming into the world. But it is the way in which the announcement comes that is...

Getting Ready For the Birth of Jesus

All of us know how important it is to get ready for Christmas. It includes presents, decorations, major events and preparing food. I suppose all of this should remind us that for God, the...

Spiritual Gifts & Dignified Worship

There are two different extremes when it comes to Christian worship. One extreme makes a few people experts and everyone else a spectator. Under this system, only ordained people use gifts, the rest...

Planting Oak Trees

Mark Devries from First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, speaks about building into young people of the church.

Reaching Out

Reaching out is something we are invited to do throughout our day as we pass people in our neighborhoods, schools, place of work and also in our homes. Sometimes reaching out is costly. Jesus faced...

The Main Thing

It has been said that the merely good is the most deadly enemy of the best. It must also be said that secondary matters can be the enemy of the gospel. Who hasn’t heard of churches that care about...

Tongues and Prophecy without Controversy!

Impossible, you say! Tongues and Prophecy are controversial, no matter what! Perhaps this is what has become of these gifts of the Holy Spirit, but should we not admit this to our shame? Today we...

For The Sake Of the Name…

3 John is a brief personal note written to encourage an elder named Gaius. It was the practice of the time for travelling teachers to go from city to city, sharing the Gospel.

Love Never Ends

The enduring nature of love helps to locate for us where our priorities lie. For those of us enamored by our own gifts, this is a helpful reminder. For while on earth, we often are quite spell bound...

The More Excellent Way

How seductive it is for us to imagine that our importance in life is based upon either our gifts or our accomplishments. After all, the message of greatness residing in our accomplishments is deeply...

Building Up, not Tearing Down

It’s always easier to tear down than to build. Criticism comes more naturally than creativity. But no one builds monuments to critics, nor remembers their words. Over the years, the church of Jesus...

What God Has Joined Together

The New Testament describes the church using many different metaphors. Even within the Book of 1 Corinthians, the church is variously described as a “field”, a “building”, a “temple”, and a “family”.

Gifts For Everyone

The list of spiritual gifts listed in this passage should open the doors to exciting possibilities. They should help us see that there are endless ways in which the Holy Spirit can use us to do the...

The Reason for Spiritual Gifts

The Holy Spirit distributes gifts according to his sovereign purposes. He does not do so to create disunity in the church, nor does he do it to indicate who is “super spiritual” as opposed to the...

True Spirituality

Today, we will be introducing a series on Spiritual Gifts. The Gifts mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14 are controversial. They were 2000 years ago, and they still are today. Paul begins by...

I Believe in Satan (and Demons)

Paul indicates that every single believer is locked in a great war with rulers, authorities and cosmic powers of evil in the heavenly places. Today, in the last of our “I Believe” Series, we are...

I Believe In Angels

Years ago, renowned author G.K. Chesterton wrote that the problem with a society that denies God is not that it believes in nothing; rather that it believes in everything. One of the places where...

I Believe in ‘Til Death Do Us Part’

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I Believe in an Unchanging God

We live in a time of constant change. Change takes place all around us. The motto of our day could easily be “the more things change…the more things change.” Some of these changes are for the better...

I Believe in Total Depravity

The doctrine of total depravity – that all people are inherently sinful and that this sin permeates every aspect of our being – is not the most popular of Christian doctrines.

I Believe in Assurance of Salvation

There are two streams of truth regarding our salvation which flow through the Bible. The first is that those who are born again will persevere to the end. The second is that there are some who have...

I Believe in Sanctification

To believe in sanctification means to believe that every single follower of Jesus is growing in holiness.