Sermons and podcasts from St. Peter & St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Sharing God’s transforming love from the heart of Ottawa.
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Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Matthew 16:13-20 Summary: What is "the rock" that Jesus founded his church upon and what are the keys to the kingdom of heaven?
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: Isaiah 56:1-8 Summary: A prophecy from Isaiah 56 reveals that the guest list for the Kingdom of God is greater than previously thought.
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33 Summary: In this meditation on Matthew 14, we find ourselves inside a fishing boat with Jesus' disciples, battered by waves and blown by the wind, until we see Jesus walking on the water.
Speaker: The Reverend Harman Thomas Scripture: Matthew 14:13-14, Romans 8:35-39 Summary: Jesus grieves the loss of John the Baptist, but responds with compassion when the crowds disturb his grief, demonstrating His great compassion and love for them, and for us. But this love goes beyond saving and healing, going so far as to raise us up to be more than conquerors with Christ - all because of His great love for us.
Speaker: The Reverend Harman Thomas Scripture: Matthew 13:44-46 Summary: Jesus is the treasure hidden in the field and the pearl of great price, worth every sacrifice. His goodness cannot merely be explained, it must be encountered. Remember your first love, behold again His faithfulness, and let your life become the story through which others learn to love Him.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Matthew 13:24-30, 34-43 Summary: In the Parable of the Weeds, Jesus shares with us the importance of patient endurance in the face of evil.
Speaker: The Reverend Harman Thomas Scripture: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Summary: Jesus’ vision is not barren hearts but an abundant harvest. However, our lives are overrun by ravens, rocks, and thorns, and we cannot heal ourselves. Thanks be to God that the Sower, our "Abba Father" has not abandoned His field! Yield to His patient work, trust His faithful care, and He will bring forth fruit that springs up to eternal life.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Matthew 11:25-30 Summary: In this sermon, we explore what happens when we accept Jesus’ great invitation to come to me, take my yoke upon you and learn from me.
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: Matthew 10:34-42 Summary: Jesus has some difficult things to say about his impact on families. But there is still Good News to be found.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Matthew 10:16-33 Summary: Being a disciple of Jesus today is challenging. There are many forces and pressures against us, trying to undue us and prevent us from continuing on with Jesus, and if we are not careful, we can be caught off guard and drawn astray. Jesus knows this, and so He speaks to encourage and strengthen us. In this sermon, we explore four words of encouragement that Jesus gives to His church to stand strong and keep moving forward in mission with Him.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Roberts Scripture: Matthew 9:35-10:15 Summary: In Matthew 9:35-10:15, Jesus' invites us to join his mission. First, we see Jesus' motivation: deep compassion, need and abundance. Second, we see that in his mission, and he calls a diverse, unexpected set of workers empowered by his provision. Finally, we learn principles for how mission is done: through proclamation, freely, and to the receptive.
Speaker: The Reverend Harman Thomas Scripture: Hosea 5:15-6:6 & Matt 9:9-13 Summary: God brings His people into judgement as they betray Him and His invitation into intimate relationship with Himself, but He does not condemn them, but reveals His heart broken by our sin and graciously still invites us into godly grief over our sin, and to table fellowship with Him.
Speaker: Christine Yeung Scripture: Genesis 1:1-2:3; Matthew 28:16-20; 2 Cor 13:5-14 Summary: On this Trinity Sunday, we reflect on how our loving triune God chooses to create and continues to be committed to his creations even when we break his heart.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: John 14:8-17 and Acts 2:1-21 Summary: On this Pentecost Sunday, we are reminded of who the Holy Spirit is, and what the Holy Spirit is doing in us.
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: John 17:1-11; Philippians 2:6-11. Summary: Three good reasons to celebrate Jesus' ascension into Heaven.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Luke 21:1-4 Summary: As we come to the end of our sermon series on biblical stewardship, we are presented with a picture of what sacrificial giving looks like through the story of a poor widow.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Luke 19:1-10 Summary: What does it look like to live by faith in Jesus Christ? In this sermon, we answer this question by looking at the story of Zacchaeus and the result of his encounter with Jesus.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Luke 11:1-13 Summary: As we continue to work our way through a sermon series on biblical stewardship, today we focus on how God reveals Himself and His will to us through prayer.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: Mark 6:30-44 Summary: We are in the second week of our Building For His Kingdom capital campaign. In this sermon we discover a number of stewardship principles, through the story of Jesus feeding the 5000, that teach us how we are invited to bring to Jesus what little we have, and when He takes hold of it, the impact is beyond all that we could ask or imagine.
Speaker: The Right Reverend Dan Gifford Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Summary: Bishop Dan helped us launch our capital campaign “Building for His Kingdom” in this sermon on gratitude as the foundation for generosity.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide Scripture: John 20:1-13 Summary: In the apostle John’s telling of the resurrection, he focuses on Mary’s encounter with our Risen Lord, and from this encounter we see how Jesus desires to have a relationship with each of us personally.
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: Mark 11:1-11; Philippians 2:5-11 Summary: After Jesus enters Jerusalem like a king, he challenges expectations about what a king is and does.
Speaker: The Reverend Harman Thomas Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1–14, Psalm 130, Romans 6:15–23, John 11:18–44 Summary: Though we were dead in our trespasses, and slaves to sin, Jesus comes for us in Baptism to save us from sin and death. But, as we begin to turn our eyes to the Cross in Holy Week, we remember that the cost of Jesus saving us from sin and death is His own death on the Cross.
Speaker: The Reverend Ben Vanderheide \Scripture: John 9 Summary: In this sermon, we see Jesus heal a man who was born blind, how the community reacts to the miracle, and then the encounter between the man and Jesus.
Speaker: The Reverend Michelle Terwilleger Scripture: Exodus 17:1-7; Romans 1:16–32; John 4:5-26, 39-42 Summary: Sin is more dangerous and deadly than we think, which makes the Gospel of Jesus Christ such Good News!
