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Sermons from the Vancouver Church of Christ, B.C. Canada.
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2012.05.20 – Barish Golland – Heart | Heart disease and stroke is killing more than 17 million people a year, according to WHO. But what about our spiritual hearts, the ones God wants us to use every part of when we love him (Deut 6:5, Matt 22:37)? God formed our hearts (Psalm 33:15), poured his love into them (Romans 5:5) and put his Spirit in as a deposit (2 Cor 1:22) so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith (Eph 3:17). So how are we doing keeping our hearts healthy, pure (Psalm 24:4, 51:10), free from lust and impurity (Num 15:39, Rom 1:24), free from pride (Pro 16:5), free from selfishness (Psalm 119:36, James 3:14)? Or do we have heart disease? Do we need surgery to fix our heart and get it in shape? Or has our heart stopped – hardened and turned away from the living God (Heb 3:12). In which case, do we need a transplant – a totally new heart from God? My wife’s nephew, Alejandro, was deployed in Iraq in the mid 2000′s. He worked with explosive. When he got back from his deployment, luckily alive, he started having heart problems. The pains grew stronger and stronger, until he had not one but two heart attacks. He survived these but just barely. He was only in his mid-twenties. This shouldn’t have been happening to him. Because his heart condition may have been caused by the explosives he worked with, the military hospital in Virginia took him in for surgery. It turned out he had Mitral Valve Prolapse. This valve was malfunctioning and stopped fully preventing the backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium of the heart. His heart was flooding. Rather than being a channel for blood to flow back and forth from the heart to the body, cleansing and refreshing it along with the way with fresh oxygen, Alejandro’s heart ceased to function as a channel. It was flooding, damming up, drawning the heart – it was becoming a reservoir. The doctors couldn’t operate on it, couldn’t patch it up. Surgery was not working. The only solution was to remove the faulty heart and replace it with a new one – a heart transplant. What about our hearts? Are they channels of God’s love flowing through us to others, or are they reservoirs?Maybe our hearts take in some knowledge, wisdom from the Word, love from God, encouragement, even the joys of life, the common grace available to all. But God didn’t design our physical hearts to just receive blood, and in the same way, he didn’t design our spiritual hearts just to receive spiritual nourishment and all the other good things of life. He designed us to share, to give, to spread the good news, from the outpouring of our lives that he has blessed. Consider this quote from On Being a Servant of God by Warren W. Weirsbe: “You don’t earn grace, and you don’t deserve grace; you simply receive it as God’s loving gift and then share it with others. In ministry, we are channels of God’s resources, not reservoirs.” (Weirsbe, 2007, p.17) When our hearts become reservoirs, similar to Alejandro’s heart, we die spiritually. We stop loving, we praying, stop caring. Some reservoirs have water that flows in but doesn’t go out – the result is stagnant water. Other reservoirs have some water flow across the surface and draining off, but deep below sediment forms at the bottom – dirt and grime that never gets cleaned. Still others have something blocking the drain so the water doesn’t flow out properly. Can you see the parallels to our spiritual lives? Weirsbe goes on to quote Luke 6:38: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” In the church we can tend to have a “manufacturer mentality” where we depend on our own resources, our intellect, experience, talent, education and assets or money. For sure God can u[...] | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.05.03 – Brian Felushko – Do You Want To Get Well? | Brian shares from John 5:1-15 about the healing of the paralytic and asks the question, “Do you want to get well?” | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.29 – Brian Felushko – Lessons I Have Learned | Brian Felushko preaches on spiritual lessons he has learned recently. See the Keynote slides below for slides used in the sermon. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.22 – Barish Golland – Entering the Sanctuary of God | Barish Golland preaches on Psalm 73 and the dilemma between seeing the Godless prosper and the struggles of those who believe in God. The Psalmists finds solace and peace in entering the sanctuary of God. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.15 – Brian Felushko – To the Saints of Jesus Christ in Vancouver | Brian Felsuhko expresses his appreciation towards the members of Vancouver Church of Christ, and preaches on Philippians 1. See below for slides from the sermon. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.12 – Brian and Sara Felushko – How to Have Good Talks – Part 1 | Brian and Sara Felushko talk at a VCOC Family Midweek about how to have good talks. This is part 1 and an introduction to the series extending over the next few months. Please see the powerpoint included on this blog post for more details related to the sermon. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.8 – Martin Vasquez – Impact of the Cross | -- | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.04.01 – Brian Felushko – Conversing about Jesus | The continuation of John series chapter 4 sermon. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.03.25 – Sean St.Jean – What I learned about God from my family | What I learned about God from my family, sermon by Sean St.Jean | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.03.18 – Brian Felushko – John Chapter 3 Part 2 | Brian continues his sermon series on John with a look at Chapter 3, verses 22-36. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.03.11 – Barish Golland – Radical Change | Barish talks about the power of the gospel message to change lives. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.03.04 – Brian Felushko – John Chapter 3 Part 1 | Brian preaches about John chapter 3. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.02.19 – Brian Felushko – And His Disciples Remembered | Brian Felushko preaches on John 2 regarding the miraculous signs of Jesus and about the disciples putting their faith in him. | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.02.12 – Barish Golland – Love, the most excellent way | Preaching from 1. Corinthians 13:1-13, Barish preaches on how love is the most excellent way, and how we can fill our lives with godly love. Music accompanying the opening reading of 1 Corinthians 13 is composed on piano by Barish Golland. | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.02.05 – Brian Felushko – Come and See | Brian preaches a sermon from John 1:19-51. “Come and See” From sermon notes preached on February 5, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Still skeptical, but curious You are a citizen of the Roman Empire in the latter part of the first century A.D. You were raised to believe in the gods of the Greco-Roman pantheon. Your goal was not to know the gods, but to appease the gods, so that they would, at best, do favors for you or, at the very least, ignore you. You never believed you could have a relationship with the gods. But in your city, there is a fast-growing group of “Christians”. They have forsaken belief in the pantheon and are saying that there is only one true God. You’ve visited with this group and you heard the elders read from a scroll they claimed was written by one of this God’s closest followers. – John. They explained that “God became a human being and that he lived in this world so that anyone who chose to could know this God and his will for their lives.” Still skeptical, but curious, and even a little hopeful, you meet with these Christians again. You want to hear more from John about this Jesus, the Anointed One, so that you can make up your own mind. But before we move ahead and consider the witness of John the Baptist, let’s look back and remind ourselves of what John the Apostle had to say about him: (6) There was a man, having been sent by God; his name was John. (7) This man came for the purpose of testimony, so that he might testify concerning the light, so that all might believe through him. (8) That man was not the light, but so that he might testify concerning the light. “ I have seen and I have testified…” (1:19-34) In these verses (1:19-28) we read John’s witness to the Jews from Jerusalem, those sent by the leaders of the Jewish people, the members of the Sanhedrin, both Sadducees and Pharisees. John’s testimony consisted of both a negative and a positive confession. (19) And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites so that they might ask him, “Who are you?” (20) And he confessed and did not deny; and confessed that “I am not the Christ.” (21) And they questioned him, “Then who? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” And he answered, “No”. (22) So they said to him, “Who are you? So that we might give an answer to those who sent us, say something concerning yourself.” (23) He said, “I am a voice shouting in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’, just as Isaiah the prophet said.” (24) And they were sent from the Pharisees. (25) And they questioned him and said to him, “Then why do you baptized if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?” (26) John answered them saying, “I baptized in water. Among you has stood one whom you do not know, (27) the one coming after me, of whom I am not worthy so that I should loosen the strap of his sandal. (28) These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. He stated emphatically that he was not “the Christ”, “Elijah” or “the prophet”. This was very confusing to the Jews, so they asked directly, “Who are you?” He said that he was “a voice” whose job it was, as prophesied by Isaiah (700 years before) to ensure that the way of the Lord was made straight. But if he were just a voice, then why would he baptize? Where did he have the right or authority to baptize Jews – Gentiles sure; they needed to be converted and purified. So John explained that there was one who has “stood among” them, but whom they “didn’t know”, someone of such status that John himself was not worthy to untie his sandal. The significance of that is that the job of untying sandals was given only to slaves. John is saying, in no uncertain terms, that this “one” who has “stood among them” is of such status that in comparison John wasn’t even worthy o | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.01.22 – Brian Felushko – We Can Know God | Sermon of John 1:1-18 “And the Word became Flesh” From sermon notes preached on January 22, 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Welcome to the first century A.D. Greco-Roman world Try to picture yourself as a person living in the first century Greco-Roman world. All your life you’ve been taught, and you’ve believed in, the very complicated family of gods explained and described by Hesiod and Homer. These gods seem knowable to some degree, but not completely and never personally. That was their power over humanity – i.e., the mystery that surrounded each of the gods and the uncertainty that produced as to what they thought or what they would do. They mingled with humans only to get what they wanted, often without any concern for the impact of their actions. Therefore, the gods, to you are a mystery. The mystery, confusion, inconsistency and uncertainty which surrounds the gods is what keeps you offering your sacrifices, saying your prayers and pouring out your libations. You have no hope of ever really knowing the gods personally or having a relationship with any one of them. Your goal is to stay out of their way, do whatever it is they want, and to appease and appeal to them for their good graces. But then you hear that some group in your city, made up mostly of slaves and non-Roman citizens, are talking about one god who has made himself completely known to mankind. At first, you are appalled, worried that this group might anger the gods and thus bring down their wrath on your city. But a close friend of yours comes to you one day and says that what these people are saying about who their God is makes sense to him. He’s been going to some of their meetings where they have been reading from a scroll that explains how there is only one God and this God has made himself completely known by becoming a human being and living in this world. You’re amazed, yet frightened; intrigued, yet skeptical. This goes against everything you’ve ever heard or believed about the divine. But what if it is true? What if there really is only one true God and that this Jesus has come into the world to explain him to us! So you decide to go with your friend to the next meeting of these “Christians” because you want to hear more and make up your own mind. At that meeting an elder gets up, picks up the scroll and he begins to read: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (2) This One was in the beginning with God. (3) All things through Him came into being, and without Him not one thing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. (5) And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overtake it. (6) There was a man, having been sent by God; his name was John. (7) This man came for the purpose of testimony, so that he might testify concerning the light, so that all might believe through him. (8) That man was not the light, but so that he might testify concerning the light. (9) He was the genuine light, who enlightens all people, coming into the world. (10) He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not know him. (11) He came to his own things, and his own people did not accept him. (12) But as many as received him, he gave to them power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, (13) who, not from blood or from the will of the flesh or from the will of a husband but from God, were created. (14) And the Word became flesh and encamped among us, and we wondrously gazed at his glory, glory as a uniquely begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. (15) John testifies concerning him and he has cried out saying, “This One was he whom I said, ‘The One coming behind me ranks ahead of me, because he was before me. (16) That from his fullness we have all received, even grace upon grace, (17) because the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth came i | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.01.15 – Barish Golland – Filled with Peace | May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 Inspired by Romans 15:13 and prayer times at Acadia Beach, Vancouver, Barish shares about the personal meaning of this scriptures as it has worked and continues to work itself out in his life. A musical meditation based on Romans 15:13 – “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (NIV) | 1/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012.01.08 – Brian Felushko – What Are You Striving For? | -- | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.12.22 – Brian Felushko – Christmas Message | 2011.12.22 - Brian Felushko - Christmas Message | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.12.18 – Mike Morettin – “Insert Title Here” | Mike Morettin shares from his trip to Venice, Italy, and the spiritual insights that came out of this visit. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.12.11 – Martin Vasquez – Communion | 2011.12.11 - Martin Vasquez - Communion | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.12.11 – Barish Golland – Filled with the Spirit | Who is the Holy Spirit and what role does he play in the church? What role does he play in our lives as Christians according to the Bible? How are we to be "filled with the Spirit"? For an in-depth look at the Holy Spirit throughout the Bible and particularly in the book of Acts, see John Lusk's excellent series available in audio at www.denverchurchofchrist.org. | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.11.27 – Brian Felushko – Gods Response to our Repentance | 2011.11.27 - Brian Felushko - Gods Response to our Repentance | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.11.20 – Brian Felushko – Celebration – the Blessing of Relationship | 2011.11.20 - Brian Felushko - Celebration - the Blessing of Relationship | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.11.13 – Brian Felushko – Living Angry – the result of rebellion | 2011.11.13 - Brian Felushko - Living Angry - the result of rebellion | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.11.06 – Brian Felushko – Living with Pigs- the Price of Rebellion | -- | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.10.23 – Shing Chan – Sharing | -- | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.10.16 – Scott and Lynne Green with Greg and Ruthann Tacher – A Conversation with the Vancouver Church | -- | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.10.13 – Scott Green – Collaborative Process | Scott and Lynne Green shared at our recent VCOC Family meeting on October 13th, Thursday at the JIBC. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011.10.09 – Glen Sullivan – Thanks-giving not Thanks-taking | -- | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
- Free
- Category: Christianity
- Language: English
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