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New Thread Podcast Series: God’s Land Established

If you knew nothing about the story of God and you read the Bible cover to cover for the first time, you would expect Israel’s entry into the Promised Land to be a time of victory and celebration. Instead, in many ways, when Israel enters the Promised Land, God’s people enter the Biblical dark ages.…

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New Thread Series: God’s Nation Formed

This Sunday, we are starting a new sermon series as part of our Thread journey. This series, God’s Nation Formed, is about how God is shaping us through both good and bad in our lives as we walk in faith with him leading the way day and night. For Israel, God took a group that…

Light In You – Sermon Introduction

We wanted to let you know about an exciting series that we have been doing here in the Ottawa Church called See To It in the last several weeks. We have looked at multiple passages in the Bible through different voices where the call is ‘see to it.’ Whether it’s “See to it that none…

Origins of Easter

Like Christmas, Easter is a blend of pagan superstitions and Christian concepts. Historically, the major problem with observing Easter has been the double standard in commitment that it reinforces. If some days are holy, or special, then others are not. And if observing one day as holy means we are giving God less than our best on the other days, we are violating Jesus’ command for every true disciple to take up his cross daily