Orangeville Christian Fellowship Sermons
Teaching the word of God from Orangeville Ontario.

Joseph - Every Dream gets refined	Stephen Cummings
Just as everybody gets to dream and every dream gets prepared, so every dream gets refined. God gives us his dreams, but often they are mixed with our own ambitions. the Father takes time to purify our vision so that Christ is in the centre and we way it out in his way and his time.	February 20, 2010 28 min, 9 sec

Joseph - Every Dreamer gets prepared	Stephen Cummings
Just as everybody gets to share in God's dreams, so each dream gets prepared. Joseph's life shows us how God uses the trials and testing to get us ready for our destiny and his purposes. We are God's workmanship.	February 14, 2010 40 min, 9 sec

Joseph - Everybody gets to dream	Stephen Cummings
Stephen starts a new series on dreaming God's dreams, not western dreams of comfort and privilege, but God's dreams of the kingdom.	February 07, 2010 41 min, 0 sec

Esther - For Such as time as this	Yvonne Cummings
Yvonne shares about the character of Esther as a young woman of wisdom and strength who called to a certain position, for a certain time. She risked her life and privilege to walk in her destiny.	January 31, 2010 36 min, 0 sec

Esther - Called to Destiny	Stephen Cummings
Our lives are not accidents, we are called to a life of meaning and purpose. Mordecai's life is an example of living in such a way as to be ready for our destiny. Our lives are not subject to chance, but chance is used by God to weave his soveriegn will.	January 24, 2010 45 min, 0 sec

Esther - The Soveriegnty of God	Stephen Cummings
Stephen explores the soveriegnty of God against man's free will. Using Esther we see how God intervenes in human affairs, but his intervention creates opportunities for us to act and join him in his purposes	January 17, 2010 40 min, 13 sec

The Kingdom of God - An upside down Kingdom	Stephen Cummings
Stephen shares how the kingdom of God is different from the kingdom of Man. This kingdom is upside down, topsy turvy, back to front; the first will be last and the last first. A leader is servant and to eter you must be a child.	December 12, 2009 18 min, 5 sec

The Kingdom of God - Starts small and costs all	Stephen Cummings
Using the parables of Matthew 13 Stephen shows that scripture teaches that the Kingdom always starts small and costs us everything.	December 05, 2009 34 min, 10 sec

The Kingdom of God - the parable of the sower	Stephen Cummings
Stephen shares on how the kingdom comes into our lives. The kingdom must come on the inside of us, before it shows on the outside.	November 21, 2009 23 min, 30 sec

The Kingom of God - What is it?	Mark Greenfield
Mark shares on what is the Kingdom of God. What does the Kingdom of God mean for us and what does it look like today.	November 14, 2009 31 min, 18 sec

The Kingdom of God - Introduction	Jen Kierven-Starkey
Jen starts of a new series on the Kingdom of God, what does it look like and ties it into the prayer for the persecuted church.	November 07, 2009 18 min, 44 sec

Belonging IV - to the World	Paul Pignatiello
Paul Pignatiello shares lessons from his mission trip to Mozambique. He shares about being hungry for God and then sharing the Bread of Life with others who are hungry for life.	October 31, 2009 23 min, 10 sec

Belonging III - Unity	Stephen Cummings
Stephen continue the series of Jesus instruction on the night he was betrayed and the key word is belonging. We are to love each other, we belong to each other. This week Stephen shows how unity is not about theological agreement but being knit together in our hearts.	October 25, 2009 34 min, 0 sec

Belonging II - Love one another	Stephen Cummings
In the second in this series we look at Christ's command to love one another with the same love the Father loves him. Jesus teaches that to remain in his love for us we must love one another and then his joy will in us.	October 18, 2009 34 min, 28 sec

Christ in the Feast of Tabernacles	Ben Voleman
Ben shares lessons from the Feast of Tabernacles. It is a feast created by God to teach his people to stop give thanks and live in a simpler way. It is a feast of Joy and speaks to us of Jesus.	October 11, 2009 43 min, 0 sec

Belonging 1 - We Belong to God	Stephen Cummings
In John 14-17 Jesus has a last opportunity to communicate to his disciples what is important. IN this series we look at the three important messages. The first is that God loves us. Jesus communicates this be showing us that we belong, we are wanted, we are valued.	October 03, 2009 33 min, 10 sec

Gensis 33 - Breaking the Chains	Stephen Cummings
Even though Esau had been wronged by Jacob he welcomed him back. He had not been chained to past hurts. We cannot prevent people from putting stakes into our lives, but we are the only ones who can remove the links that chain us to those hurts through forgiveness.	September 26, 2009 33 min, 19 sec

Genesis 32 - Jacob Wrestles with God	Stephen Cummings
The story of Jacob wrestling with God teaches us the importance of God's blessing which brings our identity and destiny.	September 19, 2009 34 min, 0 sec

The Grace of God	Priscilla Reid
Priscilla Reid Shares and encourages us about the Grace of God in our lives.	September 13, 2009 34 min, 45 sec

Understanding the Book of Revelation - Part 2	Stephen Cummings
This week Stephen offers his suggested Outline for the Book of Revelation. This focus of this interpreation is that the book's core message is the revelation of Jesus.	September 06, 2009 41 min, 23 sec

Understanding the Book of Revelation - Part 1	Stephen Cummings
Revelation has been one of the most controversial books in the Bible. It's interpretation has led to many disagreements in thebody of Christ. Stephen takes a fresh look at this book over two week, staring by giving us the context, style and main messages of Revelation.	August 30, 2009 36 min, 35 sec

What lessons do we learn from David's family?
David was the hero king of Israel, but when we look at his family life we see tragedy, hatred and murder. Stephen looks at how David raised his children and the consequences of his decisions. We also learn that each person is responsible for their own lives as well as what they sow into others.	August 23, 2009 40 min, 3 sec

The Cross and The Resurrection	Steve Cummings
The congregation had posed a number of questions they would like covered on Sunday morning. We start on a series taking each question in turn. This week Steve explains the work of the cross and how it is different from the resurrection.	August 16, 2009 26 min, 56 sec

Interpreting the Old Testament in the light of the New Covenant	Steve Cummings
Steve comments on how we approach the Old Testament given that we have a new covenant. How do we view the promises are they for us or only for Israel. How do view Israel, is the church the new Israel?	August 09, 2009 29 min, 42 sec

Patience	Bart deKrijger
Patience - why? or Why patience.	July 26, 2009 30 min, 51 sec

Jealousy	Carla Buckingham
Using Rachel and Leah as examples, Carla looks at the destructive nature of jealousy.	July 19, 2009 25 min, 42 sec

Father Knows Best	Mark Greenfield
Mark shares how our view of the purposes and plans that God has for our life may be very different than what we think they may look like.	July 12, 2009 21 min, 27 sec

Church - Community within Community	Stephen Cummings
Stephen explores the call of the church to be part of the community and challenges the congregation to get involved.	June 28, 2009 37 min, 9 sec

Church - Handling Conflict	Stephen Cumings
Why do disputes happen in church and what should we do when conflicts arise?	June 21, 2009 37 min, 31 sec

Church - pictures in scripture	Jen Kiervan-Starkey
Jen takes us through the different pictures of the church in scripture, each showing a different aspect of God's character and the churches purpose.	June 07, 2009 21 min, 36 sec

Church History II	Stephen Cummings
Stephen continues teaching about church history and the lessons we can learn. From the early church through the canon of scripture to Constantine and the early Monastic movement.	June 03, 2009 30 min, 14 sec

Church History I	Stephen Cummings
Stephen teaches on lessons we can learn from church history - starting with the early church and through to the start of the Monastic movement	May 24, 2009 11 min, 54 sec

Church is Relationships	Laura Vradenburg
We are made in God's image and God is relationship; the church is not buildings or programs, but relationships, love in action. Laura teaches the blocks to relationships and some important principles in making them work.	May 16, 2009 35 min, 45 sec

The Church - Mother's Day	Stephen Cummings
We start this series on the church on Mothers Day. Stephen Draws the parrallel between the inclusiveness of Mothers and the need for inclusiveness in the church.	May 09, 2009 30 min, 1 sec

Reaping and Keeping

Mark Greenfield

Based on the teaching from "Sowing, Reaping, and Keeping" by Laurence Singlehurst and from John chapter 4, Mark teaches that the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman was an intentional strategy Jesus used to bring the Samaritan woman into a personal relationship with Him. This strategy is an excellent example of how we can walk others, in our modern day society, into accepting Christ’s message and how we are to selflessly commit to continuing to Keep others after their initial decision to follow Jesus.

May 03, 2009 35 min, 1 sec

Witness 2 - Salt & Light	Stephen Cummings
Jesus has entrusted us with a mission, he has sent us into the world to be salt and light. Salt preserves and flavours. Light stands for wisdom and truth. We cannot be salt and light hidden away in our Christian enclave; we can only be effective out in the world. Steve expands on what it means to be salt and light and then explains how we as a church support believers in that role.	April 26, 2009 27 min, 31 sec

Witness 1 - Evangelism Myths	Stephen Cummings
Too many Christians experience paralysis in the area of evangelism, so afraid of doing the wrong thing we do nothing. The cause for this paralysis is our belief in myths about witnessing. Today in starting a new series on sharing your faith Steve examines 7 myths about evangelism and how they stop us from telling others about the good news.	April 20, 2009 31 min, 40 sec

The Resurrection	Stephen Cummings
We celebrate Easter Sunday with the glorious news that Jesus is alive. Stephen explores the three types of evidence for the resurrection – Historical, Changed Lives and present day. He ends by asking us to examine the evidence in our lives as to what perspective we have, how we view suffering and the hope we live with.	April 20, 2009 21 min, 40 sec

Isaac Gets Tricked

Stephen Cummings

Genesis 27 tells the well-known story of Isaac being tricked into giving Jacob the blessing due to Esau. If we look at the broaer story we see a dysfunctional family whose intrigues are worthy of a Broadway drama. The story has many lessons, but the most striking is that through all their dysfunction and arguments they nderstood the power of the Father's blessing and tha God is so gracious that he will even use people whose lives are not perfect and all together.

March 29, 2009 34 min, 37 sec

Isaac's Inheritance	Stephen Cummings
Esau gave away his inheritance for a bowl of stew. Stephen talks about Esau's heart attitude toward his inheritance and challenges us about our spiritual inheritance.	March 15, 2009 31 min, 15 sec

Isaac Gets a Wife - Genesis 24	Stephen Cummings
In this long chapter we read the amazing story of Abraham sending his servant to search for a wife for his son Isaac. The servant travels back to Abraham’s relatives and meets Rebekah who is revealed as the one for Isaac. Through this story we learn about Rebekah’s qualities of inner beauty and courage. We also learn about the principle of testing.	March 08, 2009 27 min, 22 sec

Prayer - How Should We Pray?	Stephen Cummings
We know that God answers our prayers, but are there things we do which hinder our prayers? How should we pray? What are the priorities of prayer? Using the Lord's prayer as a model, Stephen shows God's pattern of prayer.	March 01, 2009 27 min, 27 sec

Does God Answer Prayer	Stephen Cummings
In the next in the series on prayer, Stephen asks, "If God answers our prayers, then why does it not always seem like that to us?" Stephen looks at why we shouldn't want God to grant our every request and then he explores the different answers God does give us.	February 22, 2009 28 min, 39 sec

Corporate Prayer	Yvonne Cummings
Yvonne Cummings looks at references to corporate prayer and its benefits, both in the church and community.	February 15, 2009 22 min, 45 sec

Testimony	Peter Berrelkamp
Peter Berrelkamp shares his testimony of God's healing.	February 08, 2009 19 min, 34 sec

Little is Much with God	Stephen Cummings
In this final part of the series we look at the two ingredients to Israel's success. They are Gideon's obedience and God's stategy. Gideon had to trust and obey; he had to get off the couch and into the game; when he did so God's plan was put into play. It was a strange way to win a battle with torches and trumpets, but then God's ways are better than ours.	February 01, 2009 27 min, 42 sec

Weakness is Strength with God
Judges 7:1-9. Gideon has been called; he has obeyed and is ready to fight the eneny. But God tells him he has too many men. Through two tests God reduces their numbers so that they will know He alone is their deliverer. In his talk Steve draws lessons for our lives from why God weakened Gideon and the tests he used to achieve this.	January 25, 2009 23 min, 22 sec

Gideon - Doubting Hero	Stephen Cummings
Gideon has been called by God to deliver Israel from its current enemy. Even though he has clearly heard the call, Gideon has many doubts. He doubts himself, his family, and even God. Through it we see God's patience and grace as he leads Gideon into his destiny.	January 18, 2009 25 min, 20 sec

Gideon - The Call
Stephe looks at three ways the Gideon is an example to us: Extra-ordinary people start out doing ordinary things. Ordinary people are heroes in the making. Even heroes have questions.	January 11, 2009 24 min, 11 sec

Jesus - King, Priest, Prophet	Stephen Cummings
Stephen discusses Jesus as King, Priest, and Prophet	January 04, 2009 20 min, 28 sec

Jesus - Fully God; Fully Human	Stephen Cummings
Stephen looks at the humanity and the diety of Jesus coming together in humility.	December 28, 2008 32 min, 20 sec

Patience	Laura Vradenburg
Laura Vradenburg shares about the value of waiting for things, and why it was the perfect timing for the Father to send His son, Jesus.	December 20, 2008 19 min, 5 sec

Jesus - God With Us	Ben Volman
Ben Volman from Chosen People Ministries shares with us what Christmas means from a Jewish perspective.	December 14, 2008 24 min, 11 sec

Jesus - The Word of God	Shawn
Shawn shares about immitating the Word of God through our lives and how to do this.	December 07, 2008 37 min, 26 sec

Jesus - Son of Man	Stephen Cummings
Stephen looks at what the humanity of Jesus would be like.	December 07, 2008 27 min, 51 sec

Jesus - Son of God	Stephen Cummings
First in the series on Jesus the truth. Coming up to Christmas we remind ourselves about the truth of Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Man. In this first sermon we look at Jesus the Son of God.	November 23, 2008 30 min, 0 sec

Decision making and God's Soveriegn will	Stephen Cummings
How does God guide us? Does he have a detailed will for our lives or a general direction. How do we find and walk in the will of God?	November 16, 2008 41 min, 13 sec

The Soveriegn Will	Stephen Cummings
Stephen introduces the subject of God's will and guidance by asking how detailed does God's will get and then looks at four different wills that work together, starting with God's soveriegn will.	November 09, 2008 33 min, 24 sec

Do this in remembrance of me	Stephen Cummings
Stephen gives us a practical method for cultivating the presence of God through reading scripture and prayer. This is based on monks who practised the presence of God in their everyday work.	November 02, 2008 27 min, 9 sec

The Still Small Voice	Stephen Cummings
God's voice isn't always loud and clear, but sometimes quiet and still. We look at the place for Christian meditation in listening to God.	October 26, 2008 29 min, 47 sec

Hearing God - The Prophetic	Patricia Bootsma
Patricia Bootsma shares on the place of prophecy and how to move in this gift.	October 19, 2008 41 min, 53 sec

Hearing God - Whys, Ways and Wherefores	Stephen Cummings
At the start of a new series on hearing God's voice, Steve teaches about the importance to our Christian life of hearing God. He also explains the different way God speaks and how we an improve our listening skilss.	October 05, 2008 37 min, 42 sec

Running the Race	Stephen Cummings
The Christian walk is compared to a race. We need to run so as to endure to the end, keeping our eyes on Jesus.	September 28, 2008 28 min, 56 sec

Building Awards	Stephen Cummings
Scripture has a lot to say about rewards, in particular the writers talk about crowns. Stephen looks at what these are, and what God rewards with these crowns.	September 21, 2008 24 min, 51 sec

Quality Lasts	Stephen Cummings
If we see our lives as a building then we all have the same foundation of Jesus Christ. How we build on that foundation is up to each one of us. If our lives are to pass the final inspection we must be careful to build with quality materials. Steve looks at 1 Cor 3 and how this applies to our daily lives.	September 14, 2008 26 min, 44 sec

Keep the end in view	Stephen Cummings
In living our lives it is important that we keep the end in mind. Just as buildings must pass a final inspection we too must pass the final inspection. In the first of this series Stephen teaches on the difficult subject of the final Judgment and Hell.	September 07, 2008 33 min, 33 sec

Faith in Mexico	Yvonne Cummings & Mark Greenfield
Yvonne Cummings and Mark Greenfield share on the trip to Mexico.	August 31, 2008 28 min, 34 sec

Understanding Grief and Mourning	Michele Edwards
Just as Abraham grieved and mourned for Sarah, so we must learn grief and mourning for the ones we lose.	August 24, 2008 28 min, 6 sec

Abraham's Faith Tested	Jennifer Kiervin
Testing is a normal part of the life of faith, designed to draw us more deeply into relationship and partnership with God.	August 17, 2008 16 min, 7 sec

Abraham Human & Hero	Stephen Cummings
Too often we base our actions on false beliefs about other people; assumptions that are wrong lead to attitudes that are wrong, which lead to actions that are wrong, which lead us to sin against our brothers and sisters.	August 10, 2008 19 min, 34 sec

Sodom & Gomorrah	Stephen Cummings
The story of Sodom & Gomorrah shows 4 different people's stand, their position, their final placement when judgment fell.	August 03, 2008 24 min, 13 sec

Hospitality
Genesis 18. Practicing hospitality is important because welcoming strangers welcomes God.	July 27, 2008 24 min, 18 sec

Lessons from a Soap Opera II	Stephen Cummings
1. Man made solutions cause more problems. 2. Peace at any price brings pain. 3. Running away solves nothing.	July 20, 2008 31 min, 48 sec

Life Lessons from a Soap Opera	Stephen Cummings
Lesson 1: The search for someone to blame is always successful	July 06, 2008 21 min, 25 sec

Faith and Doubt	Stephen Cummings
Abraham believes God and it is counted as righteousness, but then he questions God about how he will know God's promise is true. What is the difference between doubt and unbelief?	June 29, 2008 27 min, 27 sec

Baptism	Stephen Cummings
Steve discusses why we believe in baptism.	June 22, 2008 12 min, 16 sec

Faith	Stephen Cummings
Abram believed God and God counted it as righteousness. Why does God value faith so much?	June 15, 2008 22 min, 6 sec

The Journey of Surrender	Stephen Cummings
Abram is famous for being willing to surrender his only son. He arrived at this point throuigh a series of events in which he learnt to let go and trust God. Faith is a journey of surrender.	June 08, 2008 25 min, 39 sec

Who's Line is it Anyway?	Stephen Cummings
We are impacted by the generations before and in turn we will impact the next generations. We each have a choice to live in the line of our natural ancestors or as children of God in our spiritual inheritance.	June 01, 2008 29 min, 46 sec

We are Priests of God	Bart deKrijger
Bart shows us that we are priests whose lives and words bring offerings before our God. He explores the different roles of the congregation and the worship team.	May 25, 2008 22 min, 55 sec

The Five Langauges of Worship	Bart deKrijger
Bart deKrijger is the worship co-ordinator of OCF and Singing Waters Ministries. Bart shares on how there are different languages or expressions of worship.	May 18, 2008 19 min, 29 sec

What we Sing on Sunday we should live on Monday	Stephen Cummings
Steve challenges us to live what we sing, that if there is no substance behind our words we are often nothing more than clanging gongs or noisy cymbols.	May 11, 2008 18 min, 41 sec

Worship is Service	Cliff & Heather Kennedy
Begins the series on the study of Worship with Cliff & Heather Kennedy from N. Ireland speaking on Romans 12, which tells us that serving the body and the community is our spiritual worship.	May 04, 2008 32 min, 56 sec

I AM The Good Shepherd	Mark & Sue Greenfield
Jesus as the Good Shepherd. John 10:3-5, Ez. 34:11, Ps. 23	April 27, 2008 21 min, 35 sec

Love With the Pure Love of God	Kevin Hastings
We are on a mission and it's easy to love others with the pure love of God. Kevin shares his testimony of how that love changed his life and how it can change others.	April 20, 2008 24 min, 55 sec

I AM The True Vine	Stephen Cummings
Jesus calls himelf the True Vine and then explains how we can be connected or disconnected from the vine. Stephen explains how the Father as the gardener prunes some branches and removes others. He examines what this means for us using Peter and Judas as an example.	April 13, 2008 29 min, 50 sec

I AM The Light of the World	Stephen Cummings
When light shines into our lives we have a choice to make. We can retreat back into darkness or remain in the light.	April 06, 2008 29 min, 26 sec

I AM the Way, the Truth, and the Life	Stephen Cummings
Stephen explores what the way, truth and life is and why Jesus put these descriptions together showing how they work in our lives.	March 30, 2008 27 min, 30 sec

I AM The Bread of Life	Jennifer Kiervin
When Jesus celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples he was demonstrating to them that he would be their bread, their source of life. Jennifer shares how Jesus described himself as bread - food available for everyone. He is not the type of food that is available only to the rich.	March 16, 2008 13 min, 9 sec

What's In A Name?	Stephen Cummings
Starting a new series on the Seven I AM's of John's gospel, Stephen introduces the series by asking, "What's in a name?" God's name - I AM - tells us so much about the Almighty Father.	March 09, 2008 21 min, 44 sec

The Tower of Babel: A Tale of Two Cities	Stephen Cummings
Stephen uses the story of Babel and Nimrod to show the difference between the world's values and heaven's values. Nimrod was the first personality and how today's entertainment industry is just the same cult of personality.	February 24, 2008 29 min, 7 sec

The Aroma of Sacrifice	Stephen Cummigns
Genesis says that God smelled the sacrifice of Noah and it was good. What was it that God saw that pleased him and what is the aroma of our lives.	February 17, 2008 24 min, 44 sec

The Principal of 40	Stephen Cummings
Genesis 7 & 8. It rained 40 days and nights. This period of time has significance and lessons of us as believers. It teaches us about waiting until God is ready.	February 10, 2008 35 min, 2 sec

The Story of Noah	Stephen Cummings
Genesis 6 The story of Noah is the story of Salvation and as such it is our story as well. It is amazing how God forshadowed salvation through Christ in the story of Noah.	February 03, 2008 24 min, 29 sec

God's Chosen Fast	Stephen Cummings
This famous passage on fasting has often be used to promote fasting, but the purpose is to show us how easy it is for us to become religious and forget about our mission. Isaiah contrasts a false relationship with God, to a true relationship with God. Finally he shows us the blessings of a true relationship.	January 27, 2008 26 min, 19 sec

Clean Earth and Fair Trade	Carla and Julia Buckingham
Carla and Julia Buckingham challenge us to be proactive about taking care of creation and respecting others	January 21, 2008 29 min, 53 sec

Prayer and Intercession	Shawn & Lydia
Shawn & Lydia share on the subject of prayer and intercession.	December 09, 2007 39 min, 22 sec