The Long and Winding Road If you know the Beatles, you know I ripped off their song title for this message. Lennon and McCartney wrote and sang about a girl,…
This Sunday we’ll be looking at Ruth 1:19-2:23 with the “Rough Road Ahead,” and I’d say we’re all looking at that road right now. And we need this message.
I've set aside what we had planned for the next few weeks and instead will be starting a new 4-week series, Road to Redemption: The life-changing story of Ruth. This Sunday’s…
I’m not that eager to bring the Word this Sunday. The hardest part of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible is dealing with the hardest parts. Passages like Acts…
We’re awfully confused about the nature of the church: what it is, what it is supposed to be doing, who actually belongs to it, and more. Everyone has an opinion…
One commentary refers to Ephesians as our Christian manifesto, and becoming imitators of God is central to our mission in the world. Presenting God to the city of Barrie is our highest calling as an uncommon community.
When I was 13 I had my first opportunity to lead someone to Christ. His name was Alex, and he accepted Jesus under one of the trees in the back…
It’s been well documented that the winter months in Canada are particularly difficult for people. January is known as the most depressing month on the calendar. It brings Christmas credit…
Nothing is outside his control. Win or lose (as we see wins and losses), we’re always in God’s all-powerful hands. In this message we're taking looking back to that account of Joab in 1 Chronicles 19 as well as looking at something Jesus said in John 14:12 about the “greater things” that we, as his followers, should see happening.
Our time in the Word is in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 where Paul deals with the Lord’s Table gone bad. Along the way, he laid out the beauty and simplicity of what the Table is, what it should mean to them and to us today.
Harvest is privileged to have partnered with Children of Promise since its founding in 2005. I know we’ll be blessed and challenged as we hear about this great ministry and from the Word of God this Sunday morning.
We do so many things not knowing how it will all turn out. We invest money not knowing if it will yield a return. We hop in the car not…
For the sake of Christ, hold your faith by evaluating consistently, examining correctly, and engaging compassionately. Sermon Notes Living Faith Hold Your Faith Pastor Roger Freeman James 2:1–13 January 5,…
A new year brings a fresh calendar and the possibility of improvement. Many of us will find our minds drawn to areas of our lives that we’d like to spend…
In the first of our two Christmas messages last week, we heard from Micah 5:1-5a that when we’re vulnerable and facing crushing circumstances, help appears in an unexpected place, in an…
When you stop to think about it, there are a ton of Christmas themes and traditions, both secular and sacred, that people latch onto during the holiday. The songs we…
I have been so impacted in working through Acts 3-4 and the narrative of the lame man being healed. We’re still dealing with the aftermath of that healing this Sunday…
The Go Tell It on the Mountain moment will be obvious as we look at Acts 4:13-22 where Peter and John, under interrogation and threatened and warned by the religious…
What's in a name? Do you recall that question from Romeo and Juliet? Juliet was trying to persuade Romeo to change his name, forsake his family connection, and marry her.…
Back in Bible college it was said that we should be ready to preach, pray, or die at a moment’s notice. When hearing stories about the faith of those who…