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Grace Valley Church

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Grace Valley Church is a new church in the Dundas area seeking to live with and for the thriving of Dundas as a community. Jesus is our inspiration and in him we find plenty of life to share with others.
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July 24th, 2022 | The Witch of Endor | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

This week, Pastor Paul dives in to one of the most interesting stories in the bible. In 1 Samuel 28, we meet a desperate and distraught King Saul. He's so desperate, he will break his own moral code and belief system and consult a woman of the occult to help solve his problems. This story is about what happens when you are without God, and it applies to every single one of us - believers and unbelievers alike. It's also about the reality of the spirit world, and how dangerous and real the conseq...

Jul 25, 2022•41 min

July 10, 2022 | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

In this sermon, we look at what a deep friendship actually looks like. We are created beings, designed for community by a God whose whole being is the essence of communal relationship. We are not self-sustaining and we are not meant to be. In our greatest need, the thing we need the most is a friend to stand up for us, to walk alongside us and lean on. Even Jesus himself needed friends, as we see in the garden of Gethsemane. So what does it mean for us, as Christians, to be a friend to one anoth...

Jul 11, 2022•29 min

The Unlikely Hero | June 26, 2022, Grace Valley Church, Dundas

In one of the most well known stories of the bible, we see two very different men reacting very differently to adversity and fear. First, we see David who is a godly young man who walked in the courage and strength that God had given him. And we see Saul, who hides from his fear and leans on his wealth and social status to keep in safe. It's fairly easy to sympathize with Saul in this circumstance, I mean, don't we all have the tendency to hide in our 'things' when life gets tough? But take a lo...

Jun 27, 2022•43 min

June 12, 2022 | Limitless God | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

This week, Pastor Paul preaches from Ephesians 3:14-21. In this passage, we hear an astounding thing: that God can do immeasurably more than we can ever ask or imagine. This is true for everything in our lives, the big and the small. God is completely able to do more than we can even fathom. And He invites us to come to Him with our needs, our cares and our anxieties about the things we are wondering about. The truth is, most of us don't even know what we need. Or we don't know how to ask for it...

Jun 15, 2022•45 min

May 1, 2022 | Teen Challenge Sunday | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

With a projected 6 million Canadians reaching the criteria for addiction in their lifetime, chances are you or someone you know is struggling with addiction. This past Sunday, we had the opportunity to hear from women who have been through the fire of addiction and emerged victorious with the help of Jesus Christ. These two incredibly brave women shared personal stories that have parts to them that can be hard to hear, but they truly are stories of how God redeems and never once lets His childre...

May 03, 2022•30 min

April 10, 2022 | Jesus Ridiculed | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

As we look towards Good Friday and Easter, Pastor Paul has been taking a closer look at all of the events that lead up to Jesus persecution and death. This passage from Matthew 27 makes me feel really uncomfortable on so many levels. There's the fact of the excruciating pain that Jesus endured - that crown of thorns wasn't made up of those cute sticky thorn balls that stick to your coat while walking in the woods. There's the thought of the mocking, hateful, haughty and derisive faces, leering a...

Apr 11, 2022•27 min

April 3 , 2022 | Jesus Interrogated | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

This week, we take a closer look at the events that happened at Jesus' trial. I definitely had a few "lightbulb moments" during this sermon, as I had never really wondered about the man named Barabbas before and the poetic injustice of him being released instead of Jesus. We also take a closer look at Pilate and Mark Hordyk unpacks some of the key character traits and behaviors that contributed to the way Pilate handled the gross mistreatment and abuse of an innocent man. Get your pens and paper...

Apr 05, 2022•42 min

March 27th, 2022 | Jesus Disowned | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

his week, we look at how Peter's weakness is revealed by even the most benign people around him. A slave girl casually asks him if he is one of Jesus' followers and he automatically starts getting sweaty palms. When you think about it, its understandable - Jesus had been arrested, everyone was scattering and things were getting tense. Peter was a guy who was adamant that he'd never sell out on his master (teacher) but lo and behold, by the time the night is over he'd actually sworn an oath again...

Mar 30, 2022•37 min

March 13, 2022 | Jesus Betrayed | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

Judas Iscariot. Probably one of the most famous 'bad guys' of all time. He's one guy that is so easy to judge. I mean, who sells out the literal Son of God? Find out what the bible has to say about Judas and how Jesus responds to this deep act of betrayal. When the going was easy, Judas was all in. It was easy to follow Jesus when you flew under the radar of anyone who would make his life difficult for his beliefs. But when the pressure started mounting and disciples of Jesus started facing real...

Mar 14, 2022•44 min

February 27th, 2022 | The Gift of Singleness | Grace Valley Church, Dundas

In the secular world, singleness is often celebrated and promoted. The opportunity to do what you want, when you want and with whom you want. It is the ultimate form of freedom. Or at least, that's what the media can often lead us to believe. In the church, being single can often be seen as the opposite. More like a problem to be fixed than something that is a chosen lifestyle or one that has just as many benefits and worth as the marriage folks in the congregation. But what does God say about s...

Feb 28, 2022•47 min

February 20th, 2022 | The Gift of Marriage

This week, our intern, Keith Williams, begins a two part series on marriage and singleness. With so many cultural voices chiming in on the definition, purpose and sanctity of marriage, it's pretty easy to get mixed up on what the bible has to say about it. As Christians, we can often stumble on certain tricky parts of the bible, especially when they seem to go against the cultural norm. For unbelievers or those who are curious about Christianity, the topic of marriage can certainly be a confusin...

Feb 21, 2022•27 min

February 6th, 2022 | Love God & Do What You Want

The very first question you should ask yourself before making a decision is: which choice will best glorify God? If you're like me (and I suspect, many of us), your prayers might sound something like this: "God, please bless me in my plan to..." Or "God, please be with me as I..." We invite God along with our plans. But it's important to order our prayers and our desires with God being at the very top of the list, and ourselves following God in the way He wants us to. So you might say, "God, mak...

Feb 07, 2022•38 min

January 30th, 2022 | The Beginning of Wisdom

Our beliefs shape our answers to lifes questions, which shape our decisions. So what do you believe in? What sets the cadence of your life? As Christians, our belief system is outlined in the bible. If you are unsure of what God is calling you to do, first you need to make sure that your decisions remain in line with God's commandments. That should be your fundamental belief and your decisions should flow from obedience to how God tells us to behave in the bible. Tune in this week as Pastor Paul...

Jan 31, 2022•36 min

January 23rd, 2022 | God's Plans Or Your Plans?

This is one of those sermons that you might want to listen to again, simply because the concept of God's sovereignty and our free-will is so complex. My brain still hurts a bit from listening to Pastor Paul explain the paradox of how we are fully responsible and autonomous when it comes to making decisions in our lives, and yet at the exact same time, God has predestined it all, and there's nothing we can do to thwart God's will. It's confusing, comforting and humbling at the very same time. God...

Jan 24, 2022•36 min

January 16th, 2022 | What do we mean by "God's will?"

This week, we start to explore the concept of the "will" of God. I think everyone, non-believers and believers alike, considers the will of God at some point in their lives. For example, when we see really awful tragedies, it's natural to wonder about the will of God, if He's even there or what His heart is truly like. Pastor Paul Vanden Brink begins this teaching series by explaining a few aspects of the will of God. First, God's sovereign will cannot be frustrated or stopped. Ever. This is goo...

Jan 17, 2022•41 min

Jan 9th, 2022 | Ebenezer (Not Scrooge)

This week, Mark takes us through 1 Samuel 7:1-15 and teaches us about the rich history and meaning behind the 'Ebenezer stone'. The fact of the matter is, God is just as faithful to us today as He was to the Israelites of the bible. If we turn and repent (which is, turn away from the sin that is entangling us and asking forgiveness of God and those whom we have hurt), God will always, always be faithful to us. And it serves us well when we have little reminders of His unfailing love. It could be...

Jan 10, 2022•28 min

January 2, 2022 | Fully, Deeply Known

It is so strange to me that my thoughts actually matter to God. You would think that he would have better things to do than to be intimately linked with the constant barrage of self-criticism, judgement of others, obsessions over to-do lists and the unending layers of anxiety that cycle through my mind all day. But God openly expresses His love and delight in us, His created beings. He has permanently linked Himself with us through the Holy Spirit. And I don't know about you, but that makes me f...

Jan 03, 2022•31 min
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