New Harvest App!
We have some pretty exciting news regarding the Harvest app. If you’re new to Harvest, we’ve had an app for the past two years, and in that time, we’ve seen it become a great tool that many people in the church use for doing things like checking into services, taking sermon notes, listening to sermon […]
Living a Life of Joy in our Personal Lives – Marriage Resources
As Norm mentioned in his sermon this past weekend, below are some recommended resources to help couples have joy in their marriage. Books: “When Sinners Say I Do: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage” by David Harvey “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman “Sacred Marriage: God Designed Marriage to Make Us […]
Optimistic Nihilism Video
This is the longer version of the Optimistic Nihilism video Norm showed this weekend. This sums up, in today's terms, the exact "under the sun" thinking that Solomon wrote about in Ecclesiastes.
Harvest Montreal Update
As you may remember from the last update that was sent out during the summer, church planting pastors Daniel Perrée and Eric Ricard are back on the ground in the province of Quebec, and are in the early stages of core group development. Plans are moving forward to plant Harvest Montreal (called Église Doxa) on […]
Reformation Session from Vertical Church Conference
As Norm mentioned in his sermon this past weekend, Ian Hales (Harvest Durham) did an exceptional session at the VCC on the Reformation. To watch the video, go to www.verticalchurchconference.ca, or you can view it below. VCC 2017 // Reformation Session from Harvest Bible Chapel Oakville on Vimeo.
Socially connected generation feeling anything but that!
I found it fascinating that a new study has shown that those who who use Facebook more often are less satisfied with their lives and are less healthy than those who don’t use it as much. In an era of the social media frenzy, everywhere you go you can see ‘friends’ sitting side by […]
A summary of our study in Romans and Job
I came across this video clip the other day and thought both answers to the question asked give a great summary of all we have learned in our two year study of the book of Romans as well as our eight week walk-thru the book of Job the spring of 2017. I appreciate the […]
Cory’s Spiritual RE-Birthday Interview
Hey church! If you heard the sermon this past weekend, I encouraged you all to read the account of Paul’s “glory story” in Acts chapter 9 and I also promised to post more on my own spiritual RE-birthday. On March 19th, 1996 – over twenty-two years ago – I was gloriously re-born of the Sprit […]
The Shack Movie
Hi all, Back in 2011 when Paul Young’s book, The Shack, came out, we provided some concerns about the book from a Biblical standpoint and warned about the errant theology represented in this fiction book. We also pointed out, by quoting the author in an interview he gave, that he intended when writing this […]
Spiritual Gifts
In my sermon on Spiritual Gifts on February 4/5, I mentioned a variety of gifts that are in scripture. To see the slide with the various spiritual gifts, click here. If you do not know what your spiritual gifts are, you should do the work of discovering them. The best way to discover your spiritual gifts […]