The Lord blessed us with another beautiful day today. The sun shining on the frost on the trees this morning and the fresh white snow were a tribute to our Lord’s creative handiwork! This morning, continuing in our study of Matthew, we came to the second half of chapter 20. Jesus had taken the disciples apart along the road to Jerusalem to…

What a beautiful, sunny winter day! But the blessings weren’t all outside we had a great time in the house of the Lord too! This morning we came to Matthew 20, and considered a parable that some have a hard time with – that of the labourers in the vineyard. The key to the parable though, is found by looking at in the…

For a while there, it looked like another winter without the weather, but today winter came back! Despite the blustery day, we had a great time in the Lord’s house. It is easy in life to sacrifice the future for the present. We live for what we can see, rather than what we can’t. Sometimes we want to do the right thing, but aren’t…

According to the 2011 census by Statics Canada, the face of the Canadian family has changed significantly. While married couples remain the predominant family structure, the percentage of what may be called “traditional” families has decreased over time, now accounting for about 67% of the country’s families. In Matthew 19, Jesus answered a question about marriage by outling God’s Plan for Marriage, and this was the…

This is the first weekend of the new year – almost a week into the year. I wonder how many resolutions were set ~ and how many have been broken. Speaking of resolutions, did you know that by reading between 10 – 15 minutes a day, you can read the Bible in a year? Compared to what we do with the rest…

Well, here we are coming to the close of another year – just a day away – the end is in sight!  As we think of the end of a year, some talk of the end of the world – just recently, there was a big deal made of the Mayan calendar’s end of the world prediction. What if the end of the…

Well, here we are again – Christmas Sunday. It’s been some 2012 years since the birth of Jesus Christ and yet we are still celebrating it. Though some may question the celebration of Christmas because it is not specifically mentioned in the Bible, for the believer, Jesus’ coming to the earth is cause for celebration. The familiar words of the Christmas story are read year after…

Only a little over a week till Christmas, then another week and it’s a new year – where has the year gone? Have you ever found it hard to forgive someone? I’m sure we all have. In our text this morning, Peter asked Jesus how often he should forgive his brother. In response to Peter’s question, Jesus tells a story of a…

This morning in our study of Matthew we came to chapter 18. The chapter begins with a discussion amongst the disciples which they brought to Jesus, as to who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus taught them that they must be converted and become as a little child to enter the kingdom. Through Jesus’ response to their question and…

This week was certainly an unusual one, and a reminder of the truth of Proverbs 27:1. Truly we don’t know what a day will bring and should be thankful for each day. On Wednesday, we were rearranging the church basement when Pastor developed chest pains. A visit to the hospital discovered that the cause was a collapsed lung. As a result of…

This morning we continued our study in Matthew, finishing out chapter 17. At the conclusion of this chapter, we find Jesus telling His disciples about His death, and resurrection – He never lost sight of the reason for His coming. Jesus also responded to Peter’s statement about Jesus’ payment of tribute money. In a message entitled, Lessons in Redemption and Responsibility, we…

Well, the sound system co-operated today and we got both sermons successfully recorded and published. There are some times in our lives we wish would last forever – a vacation, revival services, time spent with the Lord in church – that must have been how Peter felt when, after saying it was good to be there, he offered to make accommodations for…

This morning in our study of Matthew, we concluded chapter 16. Last week, we looked at the profession of Peter that Jesus was the Christ, and Jesus’ triumphant statement that He would build His church. On the heels of those statements, the tone changes dramatically as Jesus shares with His disciples the cost of the church, and the cost of true discipleship. Listen…

After a few weeks away to focus on missions, this morning we got back to our study of Matthew – though we didn’t leave missions out of the picture. The text for the message was Matthew 16:13-20, and the title was, Missions – the Church in Action. In the text, Jesus asks the disciples who others say He is, then who they say…

Being Missions Month, for the last 2 weeks we have enjoyed visiting missionary preachers. Although Pastor Wyatt was back behind the pulpit today, this morning’s sermon continued with our missions emphasis. Beginning in perhaps the best known verse in the Bible, John 3:16, Missions – God’s Program is a message about the Passion, Power and Partnership of missions. We trust it will…

It often seems that we as people misunderstand things. Despite the fact that we are usually speaking the same language, words are taken the wrong way, or perhaps missed altogether. Instructions are neglected, or misread. Sometimes misunderstandings are due to a predisposition or prejudice. We misinterpret what is said because we think a person has something against us. We don’t read the instructions properly because…

The compassion of Jesus in His earthly ministry never ceases to amaze me. Wherever He was, He ministered to people. Sometimes it was a large crowd, while other times it was a single person – all were important to Him. This morning we took our text from Matthew 15 where Jesus ministered to great multitudes. Within that crowd, there were tremendous and varied needs – blind, lame, dumb,…

Just a note to apologize to our online audience. Unfortunately this morning’s sermon didn’t get recorded due to a technical difficulty. (OK, we forgot to the turn on the sound system – oops!). The sermon was about the persistent faith of the woman of Canaan in Matthew 15:21-28. Though it looks to us that Jesus was reluctant to heal the woman’s daughter, such was…

Today was a busy day at Beacon Baptist. It was the first Sunday of our F.A.N.tastic Fall round up, and God blessed us with some visitors. Following the morning service, we had a delicious lunch and some great fellowship, then it was off to the Cambridge Country Manor for our monthly service there. This evening we met back at church and had…

In both our services on Sunday, we had our text in Matthew. In the morning, we looked at Matthew 14, where we find a couple of familiar stories – the feeding of the five thousand, and Jesus walking on the water. Sometimes in the familiarity of a text, we can miss out on the great lessons the Lord has for us. There…