Sermons & Presentations

The Scripture Untangled Podcast

Interview with Rev. Dr. Andrew Stirling of the Canadian Bible Society. Released November 4, 2025.

Free Methodist Conversations: Baptism

Video discussion with Jenn Wagar (Barrie Free Methodist Church) and Barry Taylor (First Free Methodist Church, Moose Jaw).

Sermon: From Evidence to Encounter

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, April 19, 2025. John 20:1-18.

John Scott Lidgett and Samuel Chadwick on Holiness and Social Mission

A work-in-progress presented at the Tyndale Seminary Research Forum on March 11, 2025.

Sermon: Don’t Leave It on the Shelf

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, January 19, 2025. 1 Corinthians 12:1-14.

Sermon: Rule #5

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, November 24, 2024. Christ the King Sunday. Daniel 7:9-14.

Sermon: Table Manners

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, October 6, 2024. Text: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34.

Sermon: The Word of Life

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, August 25, 2024. Text: Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon: The Word of Power

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, August 18, 2024. Text: Isaiah 55.

Sermon: The Word of Truth

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, July 28, 2024. Text: Psalm 119:41-56.

God’s Love Poured Out: A Sermon for Aldersgate Day

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, May 26, 2024.

The Punishment that Brought Us Peace: A Good Friday Sermon

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, March 29, 2024. Text: Isaiah 53

The Catholicity of the Heart: Pathologies and Prospects

The Presidential Address, Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society. March 2, 2024, Trevecca Nazarene University.

Christmas Sermon: The Hopes and Fears of All the Years

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, December 24, 2023. Luke 2:1-20.

Sermon: A Peculiar People

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, November 12, 2023. 1 Peter 2:4-12.

Sermon: Ready, Holy, Loving

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, August 20, 2023. 1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon: Elect Exiles

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, August 13, 2023. 1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon: God’s Dream Team

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, June 18, 2023. Matthew 9:35-10:8.

Sermon: The Truth Will Come Out

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, Good Friday, April 7, 2023. John 18:28-19:16.

Sermon: The Cross and the Crown

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, February 19, 2023. Matthew 17:1-9.

Sermon: The Perfect Prayer

Preached at Toronto Chinese Methodist Church, November 13, 2022.

Samuel Chadwick Lecture: The Holy Spirit, the Church, and Christian Unity

October 17, 2022, Samuel Chadwick Centre, Cliff College

Sermon: The Planting and the Pruning

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, August 22, 2022. John 15:1-17.

Sermon: The One Thing Needed

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, July 17, 2022. Luke 10:38-42.

Sermon: Toe to Toe

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, Easter Sunday, April 17, 2022. 1 Cor. 15:12-26.

Sermon: The Weight of Words

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, January 23, 2022. Luke 4:14-21.

Sermon: The Stone That Will Not Be Moved

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, November 14, 2021. Mark 13:1-8.

Sermon: Tragedy and Triumph

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, July 11, 2021. Mark 6:14-29.

When Does a Mission Become a Church? More to the Story Podcast

Interview with Dr. Andy Miller III, July 22, 2021

“A Division of Heart”: Pitfalls and Potential in Wesley’s  Understanding of Schism

Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, March 10, 2021

 

Sermon: Born to be a Whosoever

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, March 8, 2020. John 3:1-17.

Sermon: Shattered

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, October 27, 2019. Genesis 42.

Sermon: The Promise of Patience

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, July 21, 2019. James 5:1-12.

Sermon: The Freedom of Alignment

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist, June 16, 2019. James 2:1-13.

Sermon: A God We Can’t Pin Down

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, April 28, 2019. John 20:19-31.

Sermon: Peace in the Midst of Trouble

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, March 31, 2019. John 16:16-33.

“Teach us to number our days”

An Ash Wednesday exhortation. Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, March 6, 2019

Sermon: Left Alone with Jesus

Preached at Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, February 10, 2019. John 7:53-8:11.

A Sign of the Latter-Day Glory: Hugh Bourne on Women Preachers

Paper presented at Manchester Wesley Research Centre session, “New Research on John Wesley and Methodism in 18th and 19th Century Britain,” American Academy of Religion, Denver, November 19, 2018.

The Triumphs of His Grace

Sermon, Installation Service for the Donald N. and Kathleen G. Bastian Chair of Wesley Studies, Tyndale Seminary, October 16, 2018. 1 Corinthians 1:18-31.

The Free Methodist Position on Baptism

Sermon, Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, June 10, 2018

Smashing One Another’s Altars

Sermon, Tyndale Chapel, May 2016. 1 Peter 2.

Experimential Christianity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Three Canadian Examples

Academic Paper, March 2016, Tyndale Seminary

Sermon: A New Song and the New Creation

Sermon, Tyndale Chapel, June 2015. Psalm 96.

Sermon: My Life Flows On

Sermon, Tyndale Chapel, November 2013. Psalm 126.

Sermon: The Rest of the Story

Sermon, Wesley Chapel Free Methodist Church, April 2012. Acts 1.