S1 Ep78: This is Living: Radical Community
The church is designed by God to be a community of people committed to God and to others, and it is centrally important in God's Kingdom mission for the world.
29m Nov 14, 2023
29m
S1 Ep77: This is Living: Radical Peace & Simplicity
The posture of peacemaking creates space for others to witness the love of God.
36m Nov 14, 2023
36m
S1 Ep77: This is Living: Radical Commitment
Kingdom people must be radically committed to Jesus in order to show the Father to the world.
34m Nov 14, 2023
34m
S1 Ep76: Vision Sunday: Radical Faith
Today we celebrate God’s faithfulness to our church family through nearly one hundred years of life and ministry, and look to how He continues to lead us now. May we be united together in purpose and passion to see Jesus Christ made greater in our lives and our world today. Kingdom people take radical risks of faith for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
32m Oct 17, 2023
32m
S1 Ep75: This is Living: Radical Trust
Kingdom people live life with radical trust in the promises of Jesus.
32m Oct 10, 2023
32m
S1 Ep74: This is Living: Radical Motivation
Kingdom people are motivated by God's approval. (Shawn Branton - October 1, 2023)
25m Oct 02, 2023
25m
S1 Ep73: This is Living: Radical Love
Kingdom people serve and sacrifice for those they struggle to love. (Shawn Branton - September 24, 2023)
28m Sep 25, 2023
28m
S1 Ep72: This is Living: Radical Obedience
Kingdom people hear the words of Jesus and act on them. (Shawn Branton - September 17, 2023)
26m Sep 18, 2023
26m
S1 Ep71: Rhythms: Generosity
Generosity is a rhythm that, much like hospitality, helps us to respond to Jesus’ command to love our neighbours. And yet, there is also a wonderful benefit we can experience in practicing generosity in our lives today. By looking at Jesus’ parable of the shrewd manager, we can hear Jesus challenging us to think about generosity as something that extends beyond the here and now of present situa...
36m Sep 10, 2023
36m
S1 Ep70: Rhythms: Fasting
We practice the discipline of fasting because we have been given a taste of God’s kingdom and nothing else will ever satisfy us. Because in God’s kingdom the way to abundance is through abstinence. (Jeff MacLeod - August 27, 2023)
43m Aug 28, 2023
43m
S1 Ep69: Rhythms: Sabbath
Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have time to follow God with your whole life? That’s because we weren’t made to go at this pace. God invites us to Sabbath, to take time to rest in His presence so that we are able to follow Him every day of the week. Join us as we unpack the “why” and “how” of Sabbath. (Renée Serez - August 20, 2023)
31m Aug 21, 2023
31m
S1 Ep68: Rhythms: Hospitality
As we continue our series, this week we are looking at hospitality. We will be looking at what Jesus teaches us about hospitality in the parable of the Good Samaritan and how hospitality Jesus’ way may look different then how we often view hospitality. (Derek Klumpenhouwer - August 13, 2023)
44m Aug 14, 2023
44m
S1 Ep67: Rhythms: Confession
Confession is a gift from God that brings freedom into our lives. Jesus died and rose again to forgive those who confess faith in Him. As we confess our sins to God and one another we experience God’s grace and freedom from both the hold of sin and the strain and damage of pretending we are perfect. (Adam Knowles - August 6, 2023)
39m Aug 08, 2023
39m
S1 Ep66: Rhythms: Lament
When we hurt physically, we cry out in pain; when we hurt spiritually, we cry out in lament. To cry is inherently human. To lament is inherently spiritual. (Gareth Goossen - July 30, 2023)
45m Jul 31, 2023
45m
S1 Ep65: Rhythms: Silence
Silence creates space for the fullness of God’s presence and His loving initiative in our lives. Jesus invites us to come to Him in our longing, hunger and desperation and trust that He will meet us there. In silence, we learn to be still, to rest in God’s loving presence, to trust Him and allow His love to touch the deepest parts of us. (Michelle Knowles - July 23, 2023)
37m Jul 24, 2023
37m
S1 Ep64: Rhythms: Solitude
In a busy, hurried and chaotic pace of life where burnout and anxiety push us to the edge, Jesus invites us into a new way of living through a rhythm of solitude. Solitude is the practice of purposefully carving out time in our regular life to be alone with God in prayer. This practice is not a goal, but a process. And, over time, it forms us into someone who is more fully able to live into the...
45m Jul 17, 2023
45m
S1 Ep63: Rhythms: Worship
Worship changes us. It leads to obedience, it leads to a greater knowing and loving of God, it leads to encountering God in our daily living and to a powerful fullness of life in the Spirit. Let us come to Jesus with a holy expectancy because we’ve come to understand, just like the people in our passage today from the book of Luke, that He is God and that He has come to His people. (Shawn Brant...
33m Jul 10, 2023
33m
S1 Ep62: Rhythms: Introduction
Jesus’ desire is for us to live freely and lightly, to follow His rhythms and practices, walk closely with Him and find rest in His presence. He invites us to train as His apprentices, using the spiritual disciplines He modelled, to find freedom as we learn to know and experience God in the same ways as Jesus. (Jeff MacLeod - July 2, 2023)
41m Jul 04, 2023
41m
S1 Ep61: Everywhere: Sent in Humility
John Coffey, WMB missionaries, shares from his experience in the Philippines, about what it means to be sent in humility, with the heart of a servant and learner. Jesus modelled for us that wherever we are sent to serve (in your community, school, workplace, somewhere outside of your comfort zone, or in another culture or country), we are to adopt a heart of a learner, listener and servant. (Ju...
33m Jun 26, 2023
33m
S1 Ep60: Everywhere: Sent Every Day
God sends you and I each and every day to be on mission right here, right now. We are called to make disciples of all nations, starting with our own “nation” around us. If your life has been transformed by the love of Jesus, then isn’t that something you’d want the world to know too? This is an invitation to join the Spirit to love our world by sharing Jesus. (Brad Sherk - July 18, 2023)
40m Jun 19, 2023
40m
S1 Ep59: Everywhere: Sent Together
We are sent together in mission with the global church, in a posture of koinonia. We have an opportunity to serve and learn together with our brothers and sisters around the world, in mutual and reciprocal partnerships. We will explore what this looks like at WMB Church with our Global Partners. (Michelle Knowles - June 11, 2023)
45m Jun 12, 2023
45m
S1 Ep58: Everywhere: Sent in Reconciliation
Joanna and Jonathan Gutierrez, WMB missionaries, share stories from our sister churches in Lisbon, Portugal as they speak about being sent in reconciliation. The Gospel is an invitation to be reconciled with God and receive a new life and purpose. As we are made new in Jesus, we become compelled by His love to go into the world with a life changing message of reconciliation. (June 4, 2023)
29m Jun 05, 2023
29m
S1 Ep57: Filled: Filling of the Spirit Part 2
The Spirit empowering our lives fills the sail of our souls, moving us beyond the harbour of a self-propelled life, into the sea of a Spirit-filled adventure. Being filled with the Spirit empowers us to know Jesus more deeply and live a life that moves in the direction of God’s will. (Jeff MacLeod - May 28, 2023)
37m May 29, 2023
37m
S1 Ep56: Filled: Filling of the Spirit
Being filled with the Holy Spirit is the result of submitting our lives to the lordship and influence of Christ, so He can accomplish His work in us and through us every day. This is available to everyone who trusts in Jesus and it is experienced by a daily and ongoing surrender to God. An amazing adventure awaits anyone who would be filled with the Spirit! (Steve Kerr - May 21, 2023)
32m May 23, 2023
32m
S1 Ep55: Filled: Fruit of the Spirit (Family Service)
Jesus wants us to be fruit-full! People who love and follow Jesus should look like Jesus. That’s our “fruit", obvious and tangible evidence of the life inside us. This fruit isn’t made through hard work but by allowing the Spirit to produce this in our lives. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Shawn Branton and...
36m May 15, 2023
36m
S1 Ep54: Filled: Led by the Spirit
Say NO to Holy Spirit FOMO. Being led by the Spirit is for our good, it is living life to the fullest! There is transformation and goodness when our lives are led by the Spirit and not by us. Being led by the Spirit convicts us and the world of sin and invites us to participate in God’s mission to bring everyone to His throne. (Brad Sherk - May 7, 2023)
39m May 08, 2023
39m
S1 Ep53: Filled: Gifts of the Spirit
Spiritual gifts are wonderful and purposeful empowerments from God given to us through the Spirit, by His grace, for His glory and for the common good of His people. The gifts of the Spirit are not just a list of things that we can do or be, but how we most accurately reflect God to one another and to the world around us. (Shawn Branton - April 30, 2023)
26m May 01, 2023
26m
S1 Ep52: Filled: The River of Life
The Holy Spirit is the One who fills us with the Father’s love and connects us with the life of Jesus. The Spirit has been present and working throughout history to bring about the new life, renewal and power of God. When the Holy Spirit fills us, we experience the love of the Father in radical new ways. We become empowered by Jesus, in a world that deeply needs people who live like Jesus. (Jef...
41m Apr 24, 2023
41m
S1 Ep51: Filled: Do Not Be Afraid
Do you have questions or fears about the Holy Spirit, which hold you back from the ways He can change your life? It can help to learn that the Holy Spirit is not another who is different than Christ, He’s another who is the same. Jesus gives us His Spirit, because only by Christ living in us by His Holy Spirit will we be enabled to live in a way that we could never live on our own. (Shawn Brant...
32m Apr 17, 2023
32m
S1 Ep50: Lead Me to the Cross: Easter Sunday
The true covenant promise of God to Abraham, and to God’s chosen people, was that He would reconcile them to Him, and this is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus! Jesus rising from the grave on Easter brings hope to even the most hopeless situation. (Shawn Branton - April 9, 2023)
25m Apr 10, 2023
25m
S1 Ep49: Lead Me to the Cross: Good Friday
Even though we all fall short, when Jesus is the King of our lives we are cured from the power of sin. On Good Friday we remember both the depth of our sin and the extravagant love of God in Jesus, who chose to die on a Roman cross to purchase our freedom from sin. (Jeff MacLeod - April 7, 2023)
31m Apr 07, 2023
31m
S1 Ep48: Lead Me to the Cross: Being Transformed
Life isn’t meant to be a constant struggle of sin management. Circumcision of our hearts allows us to be transformed into the image of Christ. We can be released from religiousness, our desires to look and act perfectly, by allowing God’s Spirit to transform your heart, to bring freedom and healing as you follow Him in faith and obedience. (Greg Reed - April 2, 2023)
33m Apr 03, 2023
33m
S1 Ep47: Lead Me to the Cross: Before We Judge
God’s kindness is what leads us to repentance. This is the posture in how we live out our lives and how we deal with sin. We first look at our own life, repent and show the kindness of Jesus to others. (Jeff MacLeod - March 26, 2023)
46m Mar 27, 2023
46m
S1 Ep46: Lead Me to the Cross: Braving the Climb
Exchange is at the heart of the human condition. We all made an exchange, that in our sinful nature we exchange truth for a lie, and participate—heart, mind, and body—in a lifestyle that leads us away from God’s goodness and life. So, we all need an exchange, one which God has made a way for by giving over His Son Jesus, to redeem us. Jesus justifies us so that we can live new and transformed l...
38m Mar 20, 2023
38m
S1 Ep45: Lead Me to the Cross: Building the Foundation
God knows us and He makes a way for us to know Him. God is working to restore us and all creation to Him, to rightness, through His Son, Jesus Christ. God knows our sinful human condition. Yet instead of leaving us to incur the wrath we completely deserve, He mercifully and lovingly comes to us and makes a way for us to be rescued and restored. (Shawn Branton - March 12, 2023)
35m Mar 13, 2023
35m
S1 Ep44: Lead Me to the Cross: Beginning the Journey
The book of Romans is a foundational Gospel book, the Apostle Paul’s theological manifesto about Jesus. Today, we give a brief overview of book and look at Paul’s central focus for writing, which is the Gospel. The Good News that Jesus is alive and that we can be made alive through faith in Him. We are invited to experience God’s power manifested when we faithfully proclaim this Good News of Je...
33m Mar 06, 2023
33m
S1 Ep43: Big Rocks for Spiritual Health
Guest Speaker Ken Esau (CCMBC National Faith and Life Director) addresses the necessity of spiritual health. The priority for the Canadian MB Church is integrity and wholeness toward Jesus the true center. Spiritual health begins with God’s big, beautiful, and amazing Kingdom story and our purpose and calling in this as the Church. We are Kingdom people—serving and worshipping the King. (Februa...
40m Feb 27, 2023
40m
S1 Ep42: Between the Lines: Understanding Scripture Through the Cross
In order to truly understand the Old Testament, we need to read it through the lens of the cross. This reveals a “shalom kingdom melody” in which we see a movement of redemption, God moving the people away from evil desires into a life guided by the Holy Spirit. We can learn to see glimpses of Jesus, the beauty and ugliness of the cross, and God’s redemptive faithfulness, throughout the whole o...
40m Feb 21, 2023
40m
S1 Ep41: Between the Lines: Understanding Covenant
The covenants that God forms with His people unlocks access to His presence moving us ever closer to being in the place where God dwells. God uses this tool of covenant to teach us about Himself and how He calls us to live. Reading scripture through the covenant language and promises helps us to see God’s redemption in motion throughout history. (Shawn Branton - February 12, 2023)
33m Feb 13, 2023
33m
S1 Ep40: Between the Lines: Understanding Posture
As we look at the postures of Orpah, Naomi and Ruth and how they approach their lives, we can draw connections to how we approach our own lives, our faith, and our relationship with God. We can gain insight to how we should posture ourselves when reading God’s Word. A posture of intention and faith led by the Holy Spirit. (Renée Serez - February 5, 2023)
45m Feb 06, 2023
45m
S1 Ep39: Between the Lines: Understanding Theme
Scripture taps into the power of repetition as a way to teach us about God’s truth and character and grow our faith. The repetition of words in Moses’ encounter with God reveals the depth to which God is present and actively working out His big story of redemption. We’re reminded that God sees us, and invites us to know Him personally, so that we might be able to see how He is working in our li...
31m Jan 30, 2023
31m
S1 Ep38: Hidden with Christ in God
Philip and Robyn Serez share their journey since Philip's diagnosis with ALS and how they have experienced God's faithfulness and joy in the midst of suffering. Grief, pain, and sorrow are all real, but so is God who generates a joy in the hearts of believers that transcends circumstances and sustains through hardship. (January 22, 2023)
42m Jan 23, 2023
42m
S1 Ep37: Between the Lines: Understanding Contextual Details
As we explore the details of stories in the Bible, we can be encouraged that God is in the details. God loves us so much that His care for us extends to even the smallest details of our lives. This week we look at how the finely crafted details in the historical narratives of scripture undoubtedly point us towards God’s involvement in the lives and situations of his people, working towards His ...
28m Jan 16, 2023
28m
S1 Ep36: Between the Lines: Understanding Genre
Much of the Bible is written in the genre of “historical narrative”, written as a story about what really happened in the past, with the purpose of revealing what God did in history and pointing us towards God’s big story of redemption. In biblical narratives, we learn that God’s plan for his people and God’s plan for redemption is carried forward through and often in spite of individual people...
34m Jan 09, 2023
34m
S1 Ep35: The Secret to a Happy 2023
If we are not content, we will struggle to be thankful, if we aren’t thankful, we won’t be happy. Happiness is directly connected to living the will of God. So, take nothing for granted, always rejoice, pray without ceasing, and be thankful in all circumstances. This is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (Jeff MacLeod - January 1, 2023)
35m Jan 03, 2023
35m
S1 Ep34: For Unto Us: Peace
On that first Christmas, God chose to come into our mess, to step out of heaven, a place of perfect peace, and send Himself as the response to our desperate cry for help. Jesus’ birth ushered in everlasting peace. We can find this today by trusting in Jesus and receiving His Spirit, the gift of God’s presence among us and within us, filling us with His true peace. (Michelle Knowles - December 1...
37m Dec 19, 2022
37m
S1 Ep33: For Unto Us: Joy
Joy is not something that you can produce on your own. True joy is only found in the true source of joy, to accept God’s invitation to dwell in His presence. We can be tempted to settle for happiness, which is fleeting, but in God we find a contentment and satisfaction that endures through all circumstances, because Jesus is with us and we trust in Him. (Adam Knowles - December 11, 2022)
29m Dec 12, 2022
29m
S1 Ep32: For Unto Us: Love
Love in action is how we can claim to truly know God and truly live. What is our statement as followers of Jesus? Love. God’s love has become our plea. It is the gift we’ve been given, and we now give to others. The sign of love, Jesus coming to us at Christmas, can be seen as we respond to God’s love, living it out in the world today. (Shawn Branton - December 4, 2022)
32m Dec 05, 2022
32m
S1 Ep31: Partnering with Purpose: Generosity
We are invited to reset how we view giving, especially giving to fulfill God’s purposes. As we turn our minds from the trappings of greed to the freedom of generosity, scripture paints a picture for us of hope, security, and abundance as we grow in trusting Jesus and following his example of extravagant generosity. God is calling us to be generous people because He is a generous God. (Shawn Bra...
39m Nov 21, 2022
39m
S1 Ep30: Partnering with Purpose: Priesthood of All Believers
Purpose for our lives and partnership with God begins in priesthood, when we find an identity and an ethic that is a role, and a mission in the world that gives wonderful meaning to our lives each and every day. God has given us an identity that is special and radically inclusive. This comes with a duty to live devoted lives, loving God and others to bring about the saving purposes of God for t...
37m Nov 14, 2022
37m