How should you save the Earth? On Earth Day this past Sunday, I decided to do something good for the environment—-and for my family and myself. I took up a large big box retailer’s offer to trade in my rusting, ancient of days, gasoline-powered, emissions-spewing lawn mower for a discount off the price of an environmentally friendly classic… Read More on WorldTomorrow.ca or Follow on Twitter @COGWebcast
April 29th, 2012
Finding Security and Significance
Comments Off on Finding Security and Significance, Sermons and Media, Videos, by COG Webcast.How do we find joy in trials? This seems to be an oxymoron, yet the apostle James says this is something we should do. Jeff Patton delves into the scriptures to examine the joy that comes in the midst of trials as we learn God is our security and significance.
April 21st, 2012
Christian Service: a door to everyday worship
Comments Off on Christian Service: a door to everyday worship, Sermons and Media, Videos, by COG Webcast.When Christ came to magnify the law he turned the common idea of leadership upside-down by asserting that we must lead by serving. What is the service that we are to render on God’s behalf? Jeff relates the story of the hard bondage in Egypt and encourages us to rise to the challenge of Christian service that we are called to perform.
April 15th, 2012
Without Godly Vision People Perish
1 Comment, Sermons and Media, Videos, by COG Webcast.It is important to have the big picture and see what God is doing – nationally and individually. Jeff Patton brings a message of hope as we sail in the dangerous political waters of our time that we might not succumb to a lack of godly vision as the Titanic did a hundred years ago. Join Jeff in examining the vision that God’s Festival provides and the scriptural examples of Moses and Eli that provide instructive warnings for our time.
April 10th, 2012
Lessons from Unleavened Bread
1 Comment, Sermons and Media, Videos, by COG Webcast.Lessons from Unleavened Bread The apostle Paul during the Days of Unleavened bread wrote to the Corinthians about issues that were facing the covenant community. Jeff Patton speaks of Paul and his rationale in dealing with the problems of the church, and why an understanding of these historic events is important to us today as we celebrate the Passover season. Are we purifying our lives through obedience to the truth of scripture as we are admonished to do?Have we learned the valuable lessons from unleavened bread?
April 8th, 2012
Passover: The Judeo Christian Perspective
Comments Off on Passover: The Judeo Christian Perspective, Sermons and Media, Videos, by COG Webcast.Christians who come to believe that they need to celebrate the spring festival season often have questions about the meaning behind these Holy Days and the observance of the Christian Passover. Jeff illuminates the biblical instructions and highlights the testimony of Malachi, John, and Paul to give us greater insight into the meaning of this Passover season.
Be joyful. Grow to maturity. Encourage each other. Live in harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.2 Corinthians 13:11 We will no longer be immature like children…Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. Ephesians 4:14-16 Scriptures use the analogy of human growth from child to adult to explain spiritual growth. As Christian’s we must grow into the spiritual likeness of our Father, and become spiritually mature in heart and mind. This is a process that takes a lifetime, but begins at baptism when our past life is buried and we begin life anew. The reality of Christian growth is that it begins after we repent and reject the ways of this world in favour of God’s ways. Then, the gift of the Holy Spirit imparts spiritual life, in a similar way that physical conception imparts physical life. The spirit of God works with our human spirit and makes it possible for us to begin to grow towards the goal of spiritual rebirth as spirit beings in the Kingdom of God. But there are many lessons to be learned and much spiritual fruit to be borne before that glorious moment when we inherit the Kingdom. We hope some of these sermons will help you in your life’s walk towards spiritual maturity. Are You Listening to God? Good Judgment or Judgmental? The Narrow…