The Sermon Recap

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Welcome to The Sermon Recap, the official podcast of Resurrection Church Ottawa. We're a PCA congregation based in Hintonburg, and each week we share sermons and other teachings to help you stay connected to the gospel wherever you are.

  1. 2025-12-28

    Numbering Our Days and Finding Our Dwelling Place

    Psalm 90 meets us at the close of the year with clarity and hope. On the final Sunday of the year, this sermon invites us to reflect on the brevity of life and the faithfulness of the eternal God who has always been our dwelling place. Moses teaches us to number our days so that we might live wisely, not clinging to comfort or success, but seeking true satisfaction in the steadfast love of the Lord. As one year ends and another begins, we are called to rest in God, trust Him with our time, and find lasting meaning in lives rooted in Christ, whose work in and through us will endure.

  2. 2025-12-21

    God With Us, Closer Than We Imagine

    This sermon invites us to slow down and face the staggering claim at the heart of Christmas: God has come near. From Joseph’s quiet turmoil to the angel’s announcement, we are led into the mystery of the incarnation, where Jesus is fully God and fully human, not as an idea to admire but as a Savior to trust. The message shows how belief in the incarnation reshapes everything, giving meaning to miracles, grounding the hope of salvation, and assuring us that God truly understands human life from the inside. Jesus enters the world not because we were looking for Him, but because we were lost and needed saving. To receive Him is to accept both comfort and challenge, comfort in knowing God is with us and understands us, and challenge in surrendering our right to define Him on our own terms. Christmas, then, is more than warmth and nostalgia. It is an invitation to believe the impossible, to follow Christ as Lord, and to let the God who came near transform every part of our lives.

  3. 2025-12-14

    Come and Follow Me

    The sermon from John 21 draws us to the shoreline where the risen Jesus meets weary disciples with grace, abundance, and a call that still echoes today. We see a Good Shepherd who seeks out failed followers, feeds them before correcting them, and restores love before assigning responsibility. In the miracle, the meal, and the ministry, Jesus shows that our failures are not final and that devotion can grow even from regret. Peter’s story reminds us that being a Christian is not about flawless faith but about returning again and again to Jesus with honest love. We are invited to cry out to Him, to open our lives fully, and to trust that He knows us completely and still calls us to follow. The Christian life is imperfect and often costly, yet it is held steady by a Shepherd who redeems our past, sustains us in the present, and leads us faithfully into whatever comes next.

  4. 2025-12-07

    The Monotony of Manna

    Exodus 16 reveals how God uses the wilderness to expose the heart and to teach His people that He is enough. This sermon traces four heart postures that rise up in seasons of lack and longing: comparison that rewrites the past, scarcity that doubts God’s provision, restlessness that refuses to rest, and recollection that remembers who God is and what He has done. Though Israel grumbles, God responds with grace, giving manna each morning and quail each evening so that His people would learn to trust Him day by day. This daily bread points us forward to Christ, the true bread from heaven, who meets our deepest needs and sustains us through every wilderness. The message invites us to bring our groaning honestly to God, to resist the pull of nostalgia and fear, and to rediscover the sweetness and sufficiency of Jesus, even when His provision feels ordinary or repetitive.

  5. 2025-11-30

    The Mystery that Humbles Us

    Don't be conceited or arrogant. Rather, be humble, and praise God! Romans 11:25–36 pulls us into a sweeping mystery that calls for humility rather than pride. Paul warns believers not to become wise in their own eyes, reminding us that every bit of understanding, every gift of grace, and every place we stand in God’s story is something we received, not something we earned. Gentile believers are urged to resist any sense of superiority, because God has not abandoned Israel. His plan still includes them, and His calling remains firm. The passage reveals a God who binds all people in disobedience so He might show mercy to all kinds of people, bringing Jew and Gentile into one redeemed family. In the end, the only fitting response is worship. Paul leads us to marvel at the depths of God’s wisdom and the vastness of His purposes, inviting us to stand in awe of a story far greater than our understanding and to proclaim with him that all things are from God, through God, and for God.

  6. 2025-11-23

    A Faithful God and a Growing Family

    A Faithful God and a Growing Family Romans 11 shows us a God who keeps His promises even when His people wander. This passage explains how Israel is not abandoned, how God preserves a remnant by grace, and how He uses their unbelief to bring salvation to the world. Gentiles are brought into God’s family with purpose, adding life and richness to His people, while also stirring Israel to see the beauty of the faith they once rejected. Paul holds together both hope and warning. Hope, because God will one day bring His work to fullness, gathering Jew and Gentile into the life of Christ. Warning, because pride can blind anyone, and presumption can make anyone fall. The heart of the message is simple. You are part of God’s family because of His kindness, and you continue in that kindness by remembering that everything you have is a gift of grace.

  7. 2025-11-16

    Faith That Speaks and Faith That Sends

    Romans 10:5–21 opens a wide door into the heart of the Gospel, showing that salvation is not distant or complicated but close enough to touch. This sermon unfolds how faith begins with knowing who Jesus is, grows as the heart believes He is Lord and risen, and becomes real as we confess Him openly. The word is near, not tucked away in heaven or hidden in the depths, but offered freely to anyone who calls on His name. Yet Paul presses us further, reminding us that people cannot believe in the Christ they have never heard. Faith comes through hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ, which means the church must be a people who go, send, speak, and bear the beauty of the good news wherever it has not yet been heard. Evangelism is not reserved for preachers on platforms but is the joyful work of ordinary believers announcing the hope they themselves have received. This passage invites us to trust Jesus not only for our salvation but also for the courage to step into His mission, believing that His hands are extended to the world and that He calls us to extend them too.

  8. 2025-11-09

    The Potter and the Clay

    Romans 9:19–10:4 wrestles with one of the hardest questions in faith: how God’s sovereign mercy and human responsibility coexist. This sermon explores Paul’s response to that tension through three truths. God is the potter and we are the clay, reminding us that our questions must be asked with humility before the Creator. God’s actions reveal His character, showing mercy against the backdrop of judgment so that His glory might be known. And God’s mercy reaches further than we imagine, calling both Jew and Gentile, the outsider and the undeserving, into His family. Yet Paul warns that even great zeal for God can miss the heart of the Gospel when it tries to earn righteousness instead of receiving it by faith. The message invites us to trust what we cannot fully explain, to submit to God’s wisdom, and to rest in Christ who is the end of the law and the beginning of true righteousness for all who believe.

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Welcome to The Sermon Recap, the official podcast of Resurrection Church Ottawa. We're a PCA congregation based in Hintonburg, and each week we share sermons and other teachings to help you stay connected to the gospel wherever you are.

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  • Creator
    Resurrection Church
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    100
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