Ottawa Valley Vineyard Sermons

A Light Has Dawned - Advent Week 2 by Ottawa Valley Community Church

A Light Has Dawned - Advent Week 1 by Ottawa Valley Community Church

His Glory, Our Good Part 4 by Ottawa Valley Community Church

Who Gets Remembered by Ottawa Valley Community Church

Remembrance Day by Ottawa Valley Community Church

His Glory, Our Good_ Part 3 by Ottawa Valley Community Church

His Glory and Our Good: He is the ONLY true God. How does believing in God as the only true God change how you live? Are there parts of you that are drawn to follow other "gods"? And what good things do you experience by living in the glory of his only-ness?

Ahren kicks off a new sermon series called: "His Glory and Our Good." These messages parallel our small group study materials, highlighting aspect of who God is and looking at how those truths change us and impact our lives for the better. In this first part, Ahren speaks about what it means to seek God first.

Philippians 4:6-7 is what we might call a "panic-to-peace" liturgy. When we pray and give thanks, we will find our troubles transformed into a transcendent sense of peace, knowing that we have a good God who is in control.

What is it about Jesus that makes a disciple want to run after him? Ahren takes us through the story of Matthew the tax collector to see why even one who was considered a sinner and a social outcast would still want to follow Jesus and surrender his life to live Jesus' way.

Sins for which we haven't sought forgiveness are like credit card debts: they create a burden on us, and that burden increases with time. Ian shares his personal experience with learning to give forgiveness, according to God's commands, in order to experience more abundant grace.

What does it look like to be a disciple? Ahren takes us through the stories of Jesus calling the apostles to show us what made them suitable disciples, and how we can adopt these attitudes and heart postures to become better disciples of Christ.

Our goals as a church are changing. Ahren explans why we feel that the "why" behind OVC's existence - our motivation and mission - is changing. God is calling us to spend less time growing and more time building strong foundations of discipleship.

We were made to glorify God. We are most fully ourselves when we delight in his glory. But what does "glory" really mean? And why were we made to glorify? Those are the questions Ahren addresses in this sermon.

God is both transcendent and immanent - mighty and intimate. We tend to place him somewhere on a spectrum between the two, but the reality is that he is completely both. Will you let him show you who he really is?

Although we are in this age of brokenness, we are not of it. It is Jesus' intention to make this world new, and to make us new with it. Vince reminds us that, when things seem dark, we have comfort in Jesus and we are called to be the light in the darkness.

Giving forgiveness isn't easy. But it is the only way to be able to receive forgiveness from God. And, as Ian shares from his personal testimony, it is the only way to live free from the hurt and sin that has been directed at us so that we can fully worship and live in intimate relationship with God.

People are prone to conflict. Even within our own Christian communities, we encounter hurt and brokenness. Kathleen speaks on the importance of Christ-likeness and spiritual transformation for making us into the kind of people who can become the loving community that God desires us to be.

Jack shares about his experience attending YWAM and how God taught him to trust, obey, and turn his focus outward as he went deeper in discipleship.

"They live upon the earth, but they are citizens of heaven." With Canada Day approaching, Ahren teaches us what scripture says about how God and his people relate to the nations and governments of this world.