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MacGregor EMC
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The MacGregor EMC Sunday Services are published weekly, covering a range of topics for Christians today.
Episodes
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Sunday Service - Gord Murray on Joy in Trials
Gord Murray shares personal and scriptural stories to help us see the sources of trouble and the example of Jesus in finding joy in trials.
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Sunday Service - Gord Murray on Being Treasured
Gord Murray uses the parables of the treasure and the pearl to point out our value in Jesus’ eyes. While Satan reminds us of our sins, Jesus reminds us of what we’re worth to him.
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Sunday Service - Gord Utz on Knowing God
Gord Utz of Portage Evangelical testifies about his relationship with God and teaches from Psalm 139 about how God knows us.
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Sunday Service - Brent Campbell of Trans World Radio
Brent Campbell of Trans World Radio shares the vision of disciples making disciples through media, because “media meets people where they are.” We can pray, go, give, and send so the unreached can hear about Jesus.
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Sunday Service - Carlos Herrera on Steps of Faith
Carlos and Rianna Hodges Herrera are practicing what they preach and imitating Israel at the Jordan as they take steps of faith and aim to be missionaries wherever they are.
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Sunday Service - Gord Murray on Relationships of Peace
Gord Murray teaches from stories about relationships: living in peace with problem people by forgiving, separating, validating, and serving.
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Sunday Service - John Schellenberg on Superiority of Christ
John Schellenberg draws from Hebrews 1, the Fall of Jerusalem, and his experiences of conversion, testifying, and cross-cultural mission to point us to the superiority of Jesus.
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Sunday Service - Sheldon Giesbrecht on Healing and Hope
Sheldon Giesbrecht asks “Who gets the credit?” for the healing and hope described in Acts 3. Peter and John point to Jesus and call for repentance, which is still the church’s task today.
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Sunday Service - Kassy Schroeder on Biblical Hospitality
Kassy Schroeder of YFC Winnipeg looks at biblical hospitality as Welcoming Strangers (“Belonging”), expressing Heartfelt “Generosity,” and Serving with “Empathy” but without Expectation of reciprocity.
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Sunday Service - Donna Thiessen on Gardening, Guilt, and God's Grace
Donna Thiessen considers Psalm 103 through the Release, Receive, Return pattern of a labyrinth, and invites us to develop our own embodied spiritual practice to connect with the love and grace of God.
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Sunday Service - Garnet Hodges on Power of Testimony
Garnet Hodges presents the power of testimony to encourage, citing Psalm 86, and telling the hymn story behind “How Great Thou Art.”
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Sunday Service - David Kruse on Church and State
David Kruse shares lessons from the Census on Church and State, and scriptures about a Christian’s attitude to government viewed through the lens of love.
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Sunday Service - Darren Plett on Church Reflecting God
Darren Plett picks two points from Romans 12 on how the Church reflects the character of God.
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Sunday Service - Les Kroeker on Knowing God
Les Kroeker considers 1 Chronicles 10 and the progression of knowing, trusting, and obeying in the lives of Saul, David, and Jesus.
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Sunday Service - Linden Guenther on Hope
Linden Guenther’s message of hope is based on scripture, research, and experience: 2 Corinthians 3:4-14, swimming rats, and God’s financial provision.
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Sunday Service - Travis Zacharias Teaches What He's Learning
Travis Zacharias reports on what God is showing them in Paraguay: God gives gifts of grace which we use for his glory; God doesn’t need us, but delights to work with us.
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Sunday Service - Russell Doerksen at the Community Service
Our former pastor, Russell Doerksen, preaches on Christian unity based on the oneness of the triune God.
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Sunday Service - Tyson Murray of YFC on Barabbas
Tyson Murray takes the character of Barabbas in contrast to Jesus and explores God’s love for each of us. Features sermon jam audio of Judah Smith.
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Sunday Service - Gord Murray on Legacy
Gord Murray shares stories of faith and service from his own family’s life. Photo by Christian Buehner on Unsplash
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Sunday Service - Engage Today and Mother's Day
After a reading from Proverbs 31, Bruce Peters introduces Engage Today partner Ebinazer Tella who preaches on godly motherhood.
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Sunday Service - Encouragement on Sunday School Picnic Day
A few folks from the congregation share about encouragement and what they see God doing.
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Sunday Service - A Sunday with Gord Utz
Gord Utz, an elder at Portage Evangelical, was our guest to share his testimony and teaching. Experiences (from camp, in prayer, while preaching, and in witness) combined with scriptural truth show us we’re forgiven and made righteous.
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Sunday Service - Pentecost Sunday with Sheldon Giesbrecht
Sheldon explores the Acts 2 account of the coming of the Holy Spirit to empower the church to testify. The gift of tongues translated God’s praise into the dialects of the listeners; we, too, can speak life into the lives of others.
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Sunday Service - Ascension Sunday with Jeff Thiessen
Jeff Thiessen describes how the Church calendar reflects Christian experience, and what Jesus' going away meant for the Church.
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Sunday Service - A Sunday with David Kruse 2
Jesus' Church, Built on the Rock. Today David Kruse asks what the Church is, based on Peter’s confession(s).
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Sunday Service - A Sunday with Gord Murray
Gord Murray points out how Jesus handled himself in a confrontation with an evil spirit in a synagogue in Luke 4:33-37. We can have a quiet but powerful effect when we know who we are in Him.
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Sunday Service - A Sunday with Andy Woodworth
Discerning the will of the Father requires us to walk in Truth, Grace, and Obedience (Following Jesus as individuals and as a group. Discipleship truths in the Beatitudes.)
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Sunday Service - Who is the Sower
Today is Pastor Russell’s last sermon as Senior Pastor at MacGregor EMC. For it he sets two assignments from the parable of the Sower to take us into the future.
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Sunday Service - 10 Things About Easter
Today, Pastor Russell talks about 5 things that come readily to mind when he looks at the Easter story in the book of Luke, then asks everyone else to do the same.
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Sunday Service - Palm Sunday Evangelical
Today, Pastor Russell talks about Palm Sunday in the book of Luke, focusing on what it has to say about Christians reaching out.
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Sunday Service - I Have No Enemies
Today, Pastor Russell talks about his resignation, and calls us to look at those we would think of as our enemies as we would our neighbors instead.
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Sunday Service - Going to Ninevah with Carlos and Rianna Herrara
Today, we have Carlos and Rianna Herrara with us to share on Jonah 1 and what their new mission will be.
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Sunday Service - Two Masters, Three People and a Hill
Today, we look at the Blessings and Woes in the book of Luke, and ask what does this say to me depending on who I am?
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Sunday Service - The Tree by its Fruit
Today, we look at Jesus’ teaching that you can tell a tree by its fruit; how we can use it to work on ourselves as well as strengthen our beliefs.
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Sunday Service - Jesus' Temptation
Today, we look at the story of the Temptation of Jesus in the book of Luke, and ask if the passages Jesus quotes are saying more than would at first seem.
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Sunday Service - Learning about Gideon with Anthony Reimer
Today, we have guest speaker Anthony Reimer with us to share about Gideon, as well as about his work with the EMC Board of Missions and Avant.
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Sunday Service - Two Questions about Jesus Casting Out Demons
Today, we answer two questions that often come up from passages about demons, and from that we learn a lot about standing up to temptation together.
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Sunday Service - Our Ministry Seen in Christ
Today, we learn more about what Christian Ministry is about as seen in the time Jesus was kicked out of His home synagogue.
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Sunday Service - What We Learn About Us in Christ's Baptism
Today, we learn about our identity found in Christ as seen in the story of His baptism.
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Sunday Service - Two Sermons with Gord Murray and Heidi Dirks
Today we have two sermons, in the first Gord Murray shares from the book of Ephesians, and in the second has guest Heidi Dirks speak from two story of Jesus in the temple from Luke.
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Christmas Service 2025
Happy New Year! Today we have our Christmas Service, where we excitedly look to the story of Jesus’ birth!
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Sunday Service - The Advent of Love
Today, we continue the season of Advent by looking at what Mary’s story in Luke 1 and 2 has to teach us about the love of God.
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Sunday Service - The Advent of Joy
Today, we continue the season of Advent by looking at what Romans 15:13 says about Joy, and how it relates to the last decade of Pastor Russell’s life.
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Sunday Service - The Advent of Peace
Today, we continue the season of Advent by looking at what the Bible has to say about peace, as well as what it calls from us as we live life around each other.
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Sunday Service - The Advent of Hope
Today, we begin the season of Advent by looking at what God’s hope is about and how we can live in the light of it.
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Sunday Service - How's it Growing with Art Schroeder
Today, we have Art Schroeder out to share a little about YFC, as well as what God has taught him about Matthew 13:1-9.
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Sunday Service - Revelation of the End
Today, we continue in Revelation, looking at the final battle, the Millennium and the kingdom come and what it teaches us about how not to read this book.
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Sunday Service - Revelation Horns and Babylonian Traders
Today, we continue our series in Revelation, looking at bowls, Babylon, and traders, asking what it has to teach us about living for others.
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Sunday Service - Revelation with the Dragon and the Beasts
Today, we continue our series in Revelation, looking at the Dragon, Beasts, and how we are called to learn the voice of the Lamb.
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Sunday Service - Revelation in Seals and Trumpets
Today, we continue our series in Revelation, looking at what the seals and trumpets both should and shouldn’t say to us today.
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