Cyril Guerette — Sermons & Teaching
by Cyril Guerette
Two decades of preaching from Rev. Dr. Cyril Guerette — Assistant Professor of Theology & Philosophy at Tyndale University — drawn from his time pastoring Freedomize Toronto, FreeChurch Toronto, Forestview, and The Groundswell Church, as well as pulpit supply appearances.
Episodes
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Psalm 8 (Tyndale University — The Gathering)
Tyndale University — The Gathering · Psalms 8 “Who are you that God cares for you? He cares for every hair. How are you personally a reflection of this image of God? And I actually think we're each, like a special unique reflection of him. Like you have something that reflects him that I can know...
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The Suffering of Job (Newlife Church Toronto)
Newlife Church Toronto · Job “And this leads us to the third thing that will hopefully give you some comfort, which is, in the end, God will make things right. His ways are beyond our ways. I will see my redeemer with my own eyes, Job says, and Christians have always taken that as a picture of…
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The OT & Talmud
Sheridan Park Family Church · Matthew 17 “So I started asking myself a lot of questions, and then I started to see these questions pop up. I don't know if you've seen this : should we even call it Judeo-Christian culture? Should you just say Christian, get rid of the Judeo part of it? … And I'm...
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The Suffering of Job (Sheridan Park Family Church)
Sheridan Park Family Church · Job “Now, some people say, easy for Job to say, he got all his kids back and his family back and everything. My argument back to that is, does that really fix the pain? … No. Job still has the scars of his family lost, but God can still give hope that even though you...
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The False Gospel of Cheap Grace
Sheridan Park Family Church · Matthew 7 “Physical needs matter. If you have a faith, but there's no deeds whatsoever, it's dead. It's not even real. … But their hearts didn't have true faith. Which is not just deeds, but it's a fruit of the Holy Spirit. We can claim we have faith, but we can just...
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The False Gospel of Hard Work
Sheridan Park Family Church · Matthew 11 “We are followers of Jesus. We are in Christ. We are forgiven. We are children of God. We are saints, it says in Scripture. This is what gives us our worth and our value. Jesus chose you. … This is the identity of which we work. … Where you're feeling...
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Unexpected Hope (Newlife Church Toronto)
Newlife Church Toronto · Ruth “But the important thing is that you don't just look for hope. … He wants to see your hope in action that you truly have faith in him. You are asked to act in hope. To actually move and take action based upon the hope that you have in God. … But more than that, when...
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Unexpected Hope (Sheridan Park Family Church)
Sheridan Park Family Church · Ruth “So what's another important thing to recognize is we need to look for hope and that's not always easy, but one of the things that Christian needs to do in the midst of the darkness is look for that glimmer of light in the darkness and latch onto it. But that's...
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The Quiet Life
Sheridan Park Family Church · 1 Thessalonians 4 “What I realized is that the most amazing thing about Christianity is actually all of the people who have gone quietly, living their lives amazingly for Jesus and influencing them for Jesus. That's actually the most important way in which the gospel...
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Unexpected Hope (Tyndale University Chapel)
Tyndale University Chapel, Tyndale University Chapel · Ruth 2 “The hope that these people had wasn't any hope, it was a hope in God himself. It was a hope that he would provide. They talked about being blessed by God over and over again. Ruth says, I will worship this God and they point to a…
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How the Psalter Alters Culture — David's Cultural Revolution (Trulls Road Church)
Trulls Road Church · 1 Chronicles “It's important for you to grab the Psalms and to use them to help you pray. They can help you through your dark times. I say things to God through the Psalms that I'm afraid to say to him with my own mouth. … We're meant to pray the Psalms to him, to give them…
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A Quiet Life (Westside Church)
Westside Church · 1 Thessalonians 4 “We want to be that quiet, reliable person that someone looks at and goes, that person's solid. That person has something special. Their spiritual life is on point. I see it in how they live their regular life. You don't need to be famous or important for Jesus...
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A Quiet Life (1 Thess 4:9-12)
Newlife Church Toronto · 1 Thessalonians 4 “Each of these little lights that shines, we get to reflect the light of Christ, and some lights maybe a little bit brighter at a given moment. But that's not what the beauty is. It's how beautiful that one light was for that one millisecond. It was look...
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The Existence of God (Sheridan Park Family Church)
Sheridan Park Family Church, Jesus Philosophy · Exodus 3 “Love is real. I don't know if you've experienced it, but I have experienced love. I can't deny its existence. It's also powerful things that allows me to continue on. Love is real, and I would say, love is the source of reality. Love is...
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The Existence of God (Westside Church)
Westside Church, Jesus Philosophy · Exodus 3 “Now I think we can help them overcome their disbelief by arguments and logic and such. At some point, they need to step forward in faith and go, I love you. God, and they do that by seeing us love God and us love them. They're going to deny the truth...
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Faith and Reason
Westside Church, Jesus Philosophy · Hebrews 11 “If Christ is the wisdom of God, if philosophy is a love of wisdom, that means philosophy, as we understand it, should be the love of Christ. True philosophy. Because Christ is the truth, the way in the life. If I love wisdom, I love Christ. So this…
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Resurrection Rebirth (Rom 6:4) Christ is living in us
Newlife Church Toronto · Romans 6 “Christ's victory over death is a moment in history that will never be repeated, that will never be defeated. It is the one lynch point in history that changes everything. It is when life defeats death. It's a new place to begin, and when you believe in the...
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How the Psalter Alters Culture — David’s Cultural Revolution
Newlife Church Toronto · 1 Chronicles “Make the Psalms part of your prayer life. One of the best things I could do is pray the Psalms. It helps me when I'm angry at God. It helps me when I'm so broken, I don't know what to say to God. It helps me when I'm full of joy. The Psalms help us…
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Guard Your Heart
Sheridan Park Family Church · Proverbs 4 “He's equipped us to fight against the sin in a new way because no longer do we have the heart of stone, we have a heart of flesh because he gives us the Holy Spirit. We are unique in humanity. This last 2,000 years is the only time that humans had the...
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Guard your Heart: Proverbs 4:23
Newlife Church Toronto · Proverbs 4 “Plant the word in your heart. It helps create protections. I would say memorize Scripture. Find ones that stick in your heart. Jesus is the word and He has given us the word. So read your Bibles. I know you've been giving great tools to do so. You keep that…
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Complete in Christ (Col 2:1-10)
Newlife Church Toronto · Colossians 2 “You have enough in Christ. The only thing that you need to let that more live out in you. That's all we have to do is actually release the more that we have. Allow the Christ within, allow the Holy Spirit that we have, the power of the Spirit, the gifts of…
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Empowered by the Spirit (Eph 3:14-21)
Newlife Church Toronto · Ephesians 3 “He asked that you would have the power to understand the un-understandable love of God. I love this idea of how God's love is unknowable, really. It's unfathomable. God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. You can't think of love any higher.…
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The Beauty of Truth (Sheridan Park Family Church)
Sheridan Park Family Church, Jesus Philosophy · John 14 “First of all we recognize that we participate in God's ability to participate in his divine nature. We can actually participate in the beauty and the truth of God. However humanity has been corrupted and we have these evil desires. Our…
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The Beauty of Truth (Westside Church)
Westside Church, Jesus Philosophy · John 14 “And what's even more profound is Augustine writes this book as a prayer to God. The whole thing is a prayer. An entire novel's worth of writing is a prayer to God, and this is something I wanted to point out because when he speaks about the power of...
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Why is there Suffering?
Westside Church, Jesus Philosophy · 1 John 1 “He looks at the world, he weeps at the brokenness and the ugliness, that's the God that we love and we serve. So don't try to talk to someone out of their pain. I think that's really dangerous. Be with them in their pain. Don't explain away their…
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Mary — John 12, Perfume of Passion
Sheridan Park Family Church · John 12 “We love the poor because we love Jesus. It's not the other way around. I think that's really important. We love the poor because we love Jesus. … And they really care about the poor. There's a danger there. Because you get burnt out. We don't love Jesus...
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Empowered by the Spirit
Sheridan Park Family Church · Ephesians 3 “The people that you're writing off in your mind, you don't know who God will call or won't call. This is part of the power of God. Do you wanna be freed from a bad habit or a pattern in your life where you're just, “This thing's got me, I'm enslaved.”…
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S/Word of God
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Ephesians 6 “Jesus is your salvation, and when people start to recognize that Jesus is your salvation, that means he's your life saver in all ways. not just from a future thing, but he's your Savior here and now, and also the way...
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Shoes of Peace
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Ephesians 6 “Peace means that you've now come to a place where you've forgiven and there is an ability to have a conversation or connection. It doesn't mean that you return to things exactly as they are. … What peace means is…
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Shield of Faith
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Ephesians 6 “Part of this is also speaking truth against lies. To have faith that God's Word is true. So when you hear it attacks on things, to speak the truth. … Declaring the truth is actually an act of faith. It's I trust the...
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Girded in Truth
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Isaiah 11 “And all truth is true in him. One plus one equals two is true because it's in God. Let's say, the fact that my well-ruin flooded last night is true because it's in God's creation. So you start to realize that anything...
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Holy Spirit Guidance
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Acts 16 “And I love what he did, because one of the things he wanted to point out is that you have to use the Holy Spirit in decision-making. He gave four questions, and I think those four are really important. We've been talking...
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Knowing the Heart of the Father
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Matthew 6 “The only way you get to know the Father as Father in that special way is through the Son. As you become a friend and a sibling with Jesus, then you are connected into the family of God in a very specific way. It's the...
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Friendship With Christ - John 15:14-16
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · John 15 “He's very clear that we will have friends in the world. Paul talks about other cultures; he says not to just ditch everyone who's not a Christian. But the reality is: are you a friend of the world, or are you a friend of...
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Be Ready - Luke 12: 35-40
The Groundswell Church, BE READY: A Call to Spiritual Preparation · Luke 12 “I love how Jesus does that upside-down kingdom. In that day, masters controlled servants. There was slave and free. It was a big thing. This would not happen, and what Jesus is saying is that it happens. We think of it…
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Empowered - Luke 24:49
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · Luke 24 “So I wait, and then what I do is — I wait — and I listen to hear what he says. And waiting is not passive, by the way. It's very active. I'm looking at waiting — it's like waiting for someone to return home from a long journey, and you know your...
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Co-heirs With Christ - Romans 8:17
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · Romans 8 “And yet we are co-heirs with him. This is a pretty powerful idea — if you really want to think of yourself as being part of the spiritual royal family. I am part of the spiritual royal family of God. That's who I am. Now — I do not believe it's...
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Child of God - John 1:12-13
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · John 1 “They're not a child of God in the same sense as everyone's a child of God. Okay? He rules it out. … And you don't become a child of God by just the natural order of creation. There's a very special category of child of God. … That brings you into…
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Saints - 1 Corinthians 1:2
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · 1 Corinthians 1 “This is just to help us think of each other differently. Isn't it different if you think of your friend as a saint? Oh. The second thing is — I think that God calls us to embrace our own personal sainthood. In Protestant circles — I…
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Forgiven - 1 John 1:8-10
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · 1 John 1 “And so what we hear here is that, in order to experience the power of forgiveness in our life, I need to confess, like I said. That's why we're doing it. That's why it's part of who we are, and we need to let go. And so it's important — that...
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New Creation - 2 Corinthians 5:16-17
The Groundswell Church, Identity Reality · 2 Corinthians 5 “You love yourself more when you love other people. You're able to see the good when you're caring for other people, and it starts to destroy some of these parts of the old self. So make sure you don't get self-focused. That's another...
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The Emmaus Way — Easter Sunday (Luke 24)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 24 “Easter can't be something you visit once a year, right? It's got to be something we live in. So we're going to take a few weeks. We're going to talk about what it means to have a resurrection identity. We're going to...
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The Return of the King (Luke 19: 28-48)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 19 “I think it's just really important that we keep always meditating on what it means for Jesus to be king in your life. He is the king. He's coming into this place, and he rules over the entire universe. You read...
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The Cost of Following Jesus (The Twelve, the Seventy-Two and the Five Thousand) (Luke 9 & 10)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 9 “This is the way the kingdom works. I'm king. I must come first. If the king said — here — come join me. I want you in my circle. You need to come right now. You would go — and your family would understand. Guess what?...
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Lord of the Sabbath (Luke 6:1-11)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 6 “How much time do you have to do it? Work that out in the Spirit. I actually do it on the Saturday — because it's the day I can spend with my family. But do you have time set aside? … I like 24 hours. I think it's…
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Healing & Forgiving (Luke 5: 17-32)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 5 “I've seen people who were drug addicts — and they're able to help people — and they're able to heal other brokenness. This is what God does. … That's one of our stories to be, and I bet you each of them have…
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Mission Rejected (Luke 4: 14-30)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 4 “I think the first thing I want to point out is — we need to focus on the Father's love. God loves you. So when we're rejected — and this is hard — because sometimes God is, like, abstract, right? But it's actually the...
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Facing Temptation (Luke 4:1-13)
The Groundswell Church, Walk With Jesus (Lent 2023: A Lukan Journey) · Luke 4 “It's basically saying to God — I need you more than this. God, I need you more than sugar. I need you more than chips. I need you more than meat. I need you more than Facebook. This is what we're saying if you practise...
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Formed By Community
The Groundswell Church, Groundswell DNA: Exploring Our Spiritual Foundations · Luke 10 “We're not an interest group. Oh, I said this earlier. We're not we love books or we love sewing or we love hockey. We have the living God within us who wants to connect us. That's a different type of…
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Rich in Generosity
The Groundswell Church, Groundswell DNA: Exploring Our Spiritual Foundations To start a new year we take it back to the beginning. As the Church approaches a time of renewal and regeneration we kick off 2023 looking at the key values we have as a local expression of the Body of Christ and the…
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Two decades of preaching from Rev. Dr. Cyril Guerette — Assistant Professor of Theology & Philosophy at Tyndale University — drawn from his time pastoring Freedomize Toronto, FreeChurch Toronto, Forestview, and The Groundswell Church, as well as pulpit supply appearances.
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