Today, we have a special episode featuring Pastor John Best and Ahmad. Ahmad serves with an organization called House of Ohmeed and is a partner in ministry. This is a discussion on the persecuted Church that you won't want to miss. We'll be back on our regularly scheduled Q&A Pod next week. If you have any questions for us related to next week's sermon, you can email them to ask@willingdon.org, and we'll try our best to include them on the show.

00:00 Intro

1:28 Get to know Ahmad

6:35 Stories of Persecution

14:32 Standing strong through persecution in Canada

21:43 How can we respond to persecution in other places?

26:29 House of Omeed

36:13 Hope Partners

39:50 What can youth do to grow in their faith publicly?

42:25 How can we pray?

48:00 Prayer

This Podcast is a companion podcast to our Sunday sermon. Join the Pastors of Willingdon and Austin Heights each week as they dive a little deeper into each topic, answer questions and provide a few laughs along the way.

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Today is International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. The aim of the sermon today is twofold: 1) to help each of us be more prepared to stand strong in our relationship with Jesus even in the midst of suffering, 2) to stand with our brothers and sisters around the world who are experiencing significant suffering directly because of their faith.

1. Know Jesus! (Who is He and what has He done?)
2. Know Jesus! (Foster an active relationship with our living Savior)
3. Raising awareness of some of the challenging realities in the global church

Today, Pastor Ray, Pastor Brett and Silas answer your questions on 1 Corinthians 10:14-22. If you have any questions for us related to next week's sermon, you can email them to ask@willingdon.org, and we'll try our best to include them on the show.

00:00 Intro

00:40 Answering a Willingdon family question

04:35 Sermon Summary

09:29 Was there a particular verse that stood out to you while preparing?

17:29 Is partaking in Halloween festivities dining with demons?

26:21 How can we avoid sitting at multiple tables?

31:52 Can I have a financial planner? How can we discern what is Godly advice/teaching?

42:06 How can we discern when something good is taking God's place in our hearts?

51:46 Cultural Idols in the home

56:09 Outro

This Podcast is a companion podcast to our Sunday sermon. Join the Pastors of Willingdon and Austin Heights each week as they dive a little deeper into each topic, answer questions and provide a few laughs along the way.

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Have you ever sat at the wrong table?

When you go to a wedding reception in Canada, it is not unusual to have a seating chart or table plan near the entrance to help guests find their assigned table. The seating chart determines who you will fellowship with during the reception dinner.

Separate from the guest tables is the head table. At the head table, you have the bride and groom with their wedding party. On that wedding day, the bride and groom are the only ones who have made a covenant with each other before God.

If you are a guest, you don’t even think of sitting in the groom’s chair, much less the bride’s chair. It is just inconceivable. Bride and groom will sit with the one they love. They know the one to whom they have made an exclusive commitment for life.

In our passage today, Paul talks about the possibility of sitting at the wrong table, having fellowship with the wrong people, and bonding with the wrong spiritual realities. What he shares with the Corinthian Christians, reflects Jesus’ love for them.

What is the table worthy of our love?

1. The Table of Jesus (vs. 16-17).
2. The Table of Demons (vs. 18-20).
3. Jesus’ Heart for Us (vs .21-22).

Today, Pastor Ray, Pastor Brett and Silas answer your questions on 1 Corinthians 10:1-13. If you have any questions for us related to next week's sermon, you can email them to ask@willingdon.org, and we'll try our best to include them on the show.

00:00 Intro

00:07 Start

00:48 Sermon Summary

07:30 Jewish History

10:00 Grumbling vs Questioning

16:59 Temptations vs Trials vs Testing

25:37 Why pray 'Lead us not into temptation?'

29:29 Behaviour modification vs healthy boundaries

42:43 What's my out?

54:28 Outro

This Podcast is a companion podcast to our Sunday sermon. Join the Pastors of Willingdon and Austin Heights each week as they dive a little deeper into each topic, answer questions and provide a few laughs along the way.

This Weekend's Sermon: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4b25915b

Website: https://willingdon.org/

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Temptation is the act of enticing, alluring, seducing, or attracting a person to do what is wrong or evil. It is an enticement that appeals to our cravings (desires).

Is it possible for a person to not be tempted to do the wrong thing? Can anyone say that they have never given into temptation and fallen into sin?

What was it about status-seeking, grumbling, sexual immorality, and idolatry that made these sins so irresistible for the Corinthians? Why do they appear to be irresistible for us?

Is it even possible to resist a temptation that overwhelms us?

1. Our Spiritual Experience (1-5)
2. Our Spiritual Struggle (6-10)
3. Our Spiritual Victory (11-13)

Today, Pastor Ray, Pastor Brett and Silas answer your questions on 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. If you have any questions for us related to next week's sermon, you can email them to ask@willingdon.org, and we'll try our best to include them on the show.

00:00 Intro

01:46 Recap

04:42 How did you first hear about the gospel?

11:46 What is the unchangeable message of the gospel

18:40 How do we contextualize the Gospel to a same sex attracted friend?

34:40 Real life examples of Gospel contextualization

47:02 Outro

This Podcast is a companion podcast to our Sunday sermon. Join the Pastors of Willingdon and Austin Heights each week as they dive a little deeper into each topic, answer questions and provide a few laughs along the way.

This Weekend's Sermon: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6942594c

Website: https://willingdon.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willingdon/

Have you ever thought about why you follow Jesus, and how you got here?

Paul knew exactly how he did. His life was radically changed by a saving encounter with Christ. That encounter gave him a new kind of freedom; not freedom to live for himself, but freedom to serve others.

In this passage, Paul says, “Though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.”

We live in a world that prizes personal rights, self-expression, and authenticity above all else. But Paul shows us something far deeper: gospel freedom means gladly laying down our rights for the sake of others meeting Jesus.

1. Servant-Hearted Freedom
2. Evangelistic Accommodation
3. Comprehensive Proclamation