Northwest Gospel Church - East/vancouver

This week we see Habakkuk asking God 'Why?". Why are you using these methods? Why aren't you making sense? These questions sound just as relevant when we ask them today. Before God gives Habakkuk the answer, Habakkuk commits himself in submission to God's word before he hears the answer. This week Pastor Andrew takes us to Habakkuk 1:12-2:4 showing us that Habakkuk is assured by God that His job is sovereignty, our job is faith.

This week we start a new series about Habakkuk. As a prophet that grew up in the reign of Josiah, Habakkuk knew peace and God's blessing where he lived in Judah. After the death of Josiah, his sons, Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim returned to evil ways during their reigns. Habakkuk prays to God for justice, complaining how life has changed from faithful Josiah to evil Jehoiakim. God answers Habakkuk's complaint. Pastor Andrew brings us Habakkuk 1:1-11. When we cry "Justice?!" God says "Jesus".

As Paul concludes his letter, Titus is encouraged to continue to spread the good news of God's salvation. To live what Paul has passed along as an example to those in the churches on Crete. To pass along the grace of God and how it can change our life. As Pastor Andrew comes to the end of Titus, we are also encouraged and instructed by Titus 3:8-15 in a message entitled "The Place of Grace".

How is our character displayed? What do other people see and hear from us? Are we humble and gentle, or are we slaves to hate and being self absorbed? Why did God save us? This week Pastor Andrew opens Titus 3:1-7 and shows us the goodness and loving kindness of God is why he offers us salvation. As a child of God, we do not live like a slave.

As we have been going through Titus, you may have the following questions. How do I live a life of integrity? How do I measure up to this moral standard? It becomes apparent that we cannot achieve this standard of integrity without help. Pastor Andrew brings us to Titus 2:11-15 with "Run-in With Grace". It is through Jesus we find that to live with integrity, you must run into grace.

Is your character founded in the integrity God wants us to display? This week Pastor Andrew takes us to Titus 2:1-10. He shows us the Two Sides that can exist - Empty Religion or Sound Doctrine. In this fourth week in Titus, we learn that your character reveals your God.

As Paul continues his letter to Titus, he continues to address Integrity. Do we live a life of integrity when we are duplicitous? The battle for integrity is a war against duplicity. Pastor Andrew brings us to Titus 1:10-16 and shows us to live with integrity, we must die to duplicity. This is the third message in the book of Titus.

What does a man of integrity look like? How does he act? This week Pastor Andrew continues in Titus looking a five traits that a man of integrity should not exhibit and then six traits that he should exhibit. In this second week in Titus, we look at Titus 1:5-9 in a message entitled "The Man".

The New Testament letter of Titus, written by the Apostle Paul, encourages the young pastor to teach his people to act like they believe. Paul is not calling them to "fake it" through their actions, but to stop faking it in their life of faith. The call of the book of Titus is the call to real faith, authentic belief and knowledge of the truth of God, which works its way into the lives of God's people. In this message, Pastor Andrew opens his book study on Titus with Titus 1:1-4, encouraging us to seek grace and peace through finding integrity.

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the psalmist Asaph wrote a song about a vine - Psalm 80. Now as Jesus is spending His last days with His disciples, He brings them to this song and tells them that He, Jesus is the True Vine. He also tells them that only as being a part of the True Vine can they, and we, produce results that are pleasing to God. This week Pastor Andrew takes us through John 15:1-11 in the sixth message in the "I AM" series with a message entitled "The Happy Medium".

In our fifth week in the "I AM" series, Pastor Andrew looks at John 11:1-53 and the death of Lazarus. You might wonder... If Jesus loved Lazarus, why wait until Lazarus had died before going to see him? Was Jesus just running behind schedule? Or did He have a higher purpose in waiting? The resurrection of Lazarus set into motion the ultimate plan of God. You are a part of this plan. Join us as we listen to a message entitled "From One Dead Man to Another".

Shepherds have special relationships with the flock they tend. They know more about the sheep than its name. Alternately, hired hands do not have this same relationship, They flee at the first sign of danger. In this message entitled "Dying to Live", Pastor Andrew shows us the qualities that Jesus describes about Himself as He proclaims "I AM the Good Shepherd". This is the fourth week of the series "I AM".

Pastor Andrew looks at Jesus being The Door to his sheep in this third week of the "I AM" series with a message entitled "Sheep".

All you have known is darkness. Being born blind, everything is black. What would it be like to be healed of blindness? After years of only knowing darkness, to see for the first time, Light. In this second message in the "I AM" series, Pastor Andrew shows us a man that was healed of blindness to see the light - twice. We look at John 9 in this message entitled "The Blind Sight".

Are you searching for IT? If not, what are you doing? If you can get a hold of IT all your problems will be solved. Your life will never be the same. You will finally be satisfied. Everything will change. In this message entitled "IT", Pastor Andrew explains exactly what IT is, and how you can get it. This sermon begins the "I AM" series with John 6:22-40.

Here is a great equation that is only possible through the grace of God: 2+3=5. God's design of marriage (Genesis 2) + Our destruction of marriage through sin (Genesis 3) = God's redemption of marriage (Ephesians 5). Only by God's grace could His original design be combined with human sin to equal redemption. He does this through His Son Jesus Christ, and Ephesians 5 tells why. In His original design He created marriage to point to a bigger picture. In this third message in the series "2+3=5", Pastor Andrew breaks down Ephesians 5:22-33.

If only the Bible ended at Genesis 2:25... But unfortunately Genesis 3 exists. In this second installment of "2+3=5", Pastor Andrew examines the day the first marriage broke in a message entitled "Only One Answer". The first Gospel is seen in Genesis 3 as God preaches and performs the good news in response to the sin of Adam and Eve.

What is marriage? Why does it exist? Where did it come from? How should it be understood? Who should be married? Pastor Andrew answers these questions in the first installment of a three week series on marriage called "2+3=5". This first message in the series begins in Genesis 2:15-25.

If Jesus is the only way to salvation (Acts 4:12), what does this really mean for the fate of every person who has ever lived? Does this mean that those who do not follow Jesus will not be saved? Or does this mean that Jesus will save every person who has ever lived? What's the alternative to "being saved"? Is there one? Or will everybody end up with God for eternity? If this is so, then what is at stake in this life? In this sermon, Pastor Andrew takes on the Urban Legend - A loving God would never send anyone to Hell - from 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 in this sixth message in the Sub-Urban Legends series entitled "What's At Stake?".

Have you ever heard a statement like this: "In the end, aren't all religions the same? Don't all paths lead to the same place? If you hold your beliefs sincerely and you're not hurting anyone else by them, isn't that good enough? Isn't it truth for you different that truth for me? Can't we just coexist???" In Acts 4:1-12, the disciples are taken before the Jewish religious leaders and put on trial for their faith. The response from Peter sets forth one of the most clear, distinctive, and exclusive claims about the Christian faith in all of the New Testament. In this message, Pastor Andrew examines this passage in the light of the Urban Legend "All religions are the same". This is the fifth message in the Sub-Urban Legends series entitled "Coexist".