Messages

During Lent, our midweek messages will focus on Praying the Psalms. To read over the Psalms is to discover that many of them are not about lofty, high doctrine but about how the human heart works. Our message themes will revolve around the guilt, doubt, anger, fear, hostility, rawness, and white heat of the emotions expressed in the Psalms. Each week, and culminating on Good Friday, where Jesus is praying Psalm 22 from the cross, we will take one of these deep feelings, and instead of expressing it or just discussing it, we will see how they pray it.

On Sundays in the season of Lent, our message will focus on the whole armor of God, where Apostle Paul paints a powerful picture of the Christian life as a spiritual battle, calling believers to stand firm against the forces of evil by putting on the full armor of God. It reminds us that, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are engaged in a daily struggle, not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual powers of darkness. Each piece of armor - the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, wrapped in protective prayer - equips believers to resist the enemy's schemes and remain steadfast in their faith. Understanding and applying this spiritual armor is crucial for living a victorious Christian life in a world filled with deception, temptation, and opposition.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, which originated in the early Christian Church. As a sign of repentance, Christians would sprinkle ashes on their heads. In the Bible, ashes were always associated with humility and mortality, fasting and remorse. Tonight we remember how Christians have done this as a remembrance of sins for hundreds of years and the price Christ paid by His death on a cross for our forgiveness and grace.

What would the Body of Jesus Christ – the Christian Church – look like if every believer would take Jesus’ words, the ones that are written in red letters in Bibles, and actually put them into practice? That’s a very unoriginal idea or question that could change not just the followers of Jesus Christ but also the world in which we live. Highlighting five areas of following Jesus, we will move together in discovering what it means to be, forgive, serve, give, and go as a church called Faith, Oakville.

Happy New Year! As we begin 2025, we are kicking off January with our Live, Love & Life message series focusing on three special weekend worship services. 

JANUARY 5 - Living in the Light: It’s Epiphany! “The Light has come” to all the world - The Gentile Christmas

JANUARY 12 - Loving One Another: Pastor Gerard and our Bethlehem family will join us for worship

JANUARY 19 - Life Sunday: We will welcome our community partner, the Pregnancy Help Center of South County