Sermons by Shaun McDonnell

Unmasking Our Mess

We all wear masks — in church, on social media, in relationships. This message from Mark 7 challenges us to stop performing and start being real, exploring what it means to unmask our hearts and build a community where authenticity and grace go hand in hand.

Symphony of Love

Are you still gobsmacked by Jesus? This sermon uses Handel’s Messiah as a lens to ask whether the life and love of Christ still moves us the way it moves a first-time listener. Through a rich retelling of the Prodigal Son, the message reveals a Father whose love is extravagant, reckless, and running — and challenges us to hear the symphony of love with fresh ears.

Seeing and Savoring Jesus

What does it mean to truly love like Jesus? This sermon explores how authentic, self-giving love is not simply a matter of willpower or imitation, but is energized by living faith. Drawing on 1 John 3–4, Mark 9, and Psalm 23, the message challenges us to root our identity in God as adopted children and to step out in vulnerable, faith-fueled love—even toward those who hurt us.

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I Would Have

What would you do if you were God? This sermon explores why God doesn’t always pull us out of suffering — and why that’s actually an act of love. Drawing from Matthew 16 and the lives of Job, Joseph, David, and Jesus, we discover that faith is forged in the furnace of pain, and that confessing Jesus as Lord means trusting him even when it hurts.

Seeing and Savouring Jesus

Seeing and Savouring Jesus

Seeing and Savouring Jesus invites us to encounter Christ not as a distant name or shadowy idea, but as the living radiance of God’s glory. Through Scripture, we are called to truly see, hear, touch, and treasure Jesus—the one who gives rest to the weary and light to hearts longing for God.

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Devoted

We all admire devotion because it shows commitment, passion, consistency, and faithfulness. A devoted person doesn’t walk away when things get hard. God has shown that same wholehearted devotion to us. He demonstrated it fully by sending His Son, so that through His sacrifice, we could have a relationship with Him. In response to God’s great love and devotion, we are called to love Him with all our heart and to go all in.

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Emmaus: Our Journey of Faith

When life leaves us saying, “We had hoped,” the good news of Luke 24 is that Jesus still comes near, even when pain has made us too discouraged to recognize Him. He does not merely offer religion or quick fixes; He opens the Scriptures, reveals Himself in relationship, and uses community to help us see clearly again. And because He is risen, our disappointment is not the end of the story—our hearts can burn again, our hope can live again, and we can get up and walk forward in faith.