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In the Way with Charles St-Onge
Charles St-Onge, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Pembroke, Ontario, shares the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Episodes
- In the Way with Charles St-Onge
Holy Thursday: Evidence of His Presence
Where do we find Jesus now, millennia after his resurrection and thousands of miles away?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Holy Wednesday: Evidence of Discipleship
What is the evidence that we are Christians, followers of Christ?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Holy Tuesday: Mixed Evidence
Why is it that some see proof of God's existence where others see nothing at all? Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Asking Questions
In Mark's account of the Passion of Jesus, Pilate only asks questions. What was he hoping to learn? What are the questions you ought to be asking this Holy…
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A Not Normal Covenant
The covenant God makes with Israel is "normal." The new one he makes with us in Jesus is not. Sermon for the installation of Rev. Dr. Gerald Paul.Support the…
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God Loves Like So
John 3:16 isn't about how much God loves the world. It's about how he loves it.Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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God Makes Us Great
Do a great people make a great God, or does a great God make a people great by his own work and will?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or…
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Jesus is the Christ
What does it mean to claim Jesus as Messiah? Do we say it like we mean it, or just casually? Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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With the Wild Animals
Mark is alone in describing Jesus' wilderness temptation as taking place "among the wild animals." What does that mean for us?Support the showVisit us at…
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Loving Listening
February 14, 2021 is the Feast of Transfiguration and St. Valentine's Day. So let's talk about how to love Jesus - and let Jesus love us.Support the showVisit…
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The Dead Who Serve
Once you're dead, you are free from all obligations. We who are dead in Christ are free to serve our neighbour without restriction or restraint. Support the…
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Who Speaks the Truth
In Mark 1:20-28, Jesus rebukes an unclean spirit, supposedly for telling the truth. Why?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Our Callings
Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John to be fishers of men. Is that our calling too? Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Where is God Speaking
When there is a thirst and a hunger to hear and see the Word of the Lord, do you know where to find it?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or…
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Mere Words
When God speaks, things happen. When Satan speaks, he delivers lies. What words do you trust?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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God's Home for the Holidays
The Lord promises to make his own home among us; and that home has room for plenty!Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or stjohnspembroke.org.
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Witness to the Light
John the Baptist was not the light but, like us, he was the one who bore witness to the light. We are not the Prophet or Elijah, but we can point people to…
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A Good News King
The coming king for whom John the Baptist is preparing is unlike any king we have known. And good thing: this king has come to save us, not subjugated…
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When God Comes Down
"O Savior, rend the heavens wide" goes the old hymn based on the words of Isaiah. But do we really want God to come down? Are we ready for what that…
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If You Had a Million Dollars
What if someone entrusted you with their riches? How would your view of that person impact what you did with the money?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org…
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Remember, Remember
Christianity is not a worldview, a concept, or an idea. It is a belief and trust in a man, Jesus of Nazareth, who remembers and saves his people.Support the…
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None So Blind
"There are none so blind as those who will not see." On this Reformation Day, what are the things to which we are blind, that keep us enslaved? Support the…
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What's In Your Wallet
Jesus deals with the hypocrisy of the religious and the political by asking a Capital One question: "What's in your wallet?" Support the showVisit us at…
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A Thanksgiving Banquet
On this thanksgiving Sunday, Jesus shares a parable about a banquet with ungrateful and unexpected guests. Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or…
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Getting What You Need
Text: Philippians 3:4b-14. What do you really need: money, power, fame, or something else entirely? Paul figured it out, and shares his Good News with…
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Authority to Shine
Today both Paul and Jesus challenge us on the nature of authority, what authority Christians have been given, by whom, and for what purpose. Support the…
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Walk the Line
Paul writes to the church in Philippi, describing how he is caught between life and death. Our lives, too, are walked on a line. But Christ is always with us…
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Essentials and Non-Essentials
Text: Romans 14:1-12. What is essential to the faith, what is non-essential, and how do we handle the difference?Support the showVisit us at intheway.org or…
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State and the Gospel
In Romans 13, Paul addresses the appropriate Christian attitude towards government. Must we always submit to them, even when they seem to be in the…
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Christian Rubric
Teachers assess students based on a rubric. Paul outlines a rubric for judging Christian behaviour vs. worldly attitudes in Romans 12:8-21. Support the…
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Logical Worship
A little more than 2/3rds of the way through his letter to Rome, Paul pivots, and begins to write about the life of the Christian saved by grace looks like…
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All Israel Will Be Saved
Paul is preparing to transition from pure theology to more practical application in his letter to the Romans. Before we can go on, a little pop quiz. What does…
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The Preached Jesus
In Romans 10, Paul addresses a serious question for the Church: how do people become Christians and confess the saving faith? Support the showVisit us at…
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When Israel Isn't Israel
Paul asks the question, were all Israelites true Israelites? The question might be asked in our day, are all who sit in pews on Sunday Christians? Support the…
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Also Predestined
What does it mean to be "predestined," as Paul says it, to be God's elect? What if it does not mean what we think it means?Support the showVisit us at…
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All Creation Groaning
In Romans 8, Paul shows how to hold in tension the wonder of God's creation and the bugs, viruses, and venom we see there as well.Support the showVisit us at…
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Identity and Action
"Justification and sanctification" were the two big watchwords of the Reformation. They can be more easily understood in the terms identity and action.Support…
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Jesus Easy Yoke
Paul, in Romans 7, writes about being burdened by good desires but bad actions. Jesus wants to take away the yoke of a bad conscience and delivers us from the…
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No Good Fences
"Good fences make good neighbors" goes the old proverb. But are fences always good? Is the offense of the cross that it takes the old fences down? Support the…
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Nothing to Fear
An old proverb says that the one who fears dies many times, but those without fear die only once. If Jesus has defeated death, and God who ought to be feared…
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Sheep and Undershepherds
The Lord has compassion on us, because we are like sheep without a shepherd. How does the Lord shepherd His lost sheep today?Support the showVisit us at…
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I Am With You Always
Do you see God as someone always looking over your shoulder to judge you, or as a shoulder you can lean on in the worst of life's storms? Support the showVisit…
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Water and Spirit
In the book of Genesis, water represents destruction and chaos while the Spirit represents breath and life. In Jesus, both are brought together in Baptism…
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Learn Prayer from Jesus
In John 17, we hear Jesus pray to the Father for us. What can we learn from him and the early disciples about the importance and content of prayer? Support the…
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Know Your Audience
In Acts 2, Peter was sharing the Gospel with Jews. In Acts 17, Paul was sharing the Gospel with Greek philosophers. With whom are we sharing the Gospel? How do…
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Home with Jesus
In the House of the Father are many dwelling places. But what matters most is that Jesus is there. Where we are with Jesus, we will always find a dwelling…
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A True Fairy Tale
"And they lived happily ever after." Things in life don't always work out that way; but in Christ, the Good Shepherd, the lost sheep always make their way…
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Trials and Joy
Peter encourages us to have joy in the midst of trials. This is, in fact, the pattern of the Christian life from the days after the first Easter until…
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Easter is Not Cancelled
Every Christian in christendom liked Easter a lot. But the Devil, who lurked all around them, did not. Satan hated Easter! The whole Easter season! For it…
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Alright in Christ
Ca va bien passer - everything will be alright. Christians can proclaim this loudly, because Christ's death has destroyed disease and death, and his…
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In The Garden
The passion of Jesus Christ according to John begins and ends in a garden. The significance should not be lost on those who remember how sin started in the…
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A Servant God
Where are you looking for God: up on a throne somewhere, or down at your feet, serving you in humility and offering you grace? Support the showVisit us at…
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When Satan Enters In
Jesus speaks of Satan entering Judas, but also Peter. What does it mean when Satan enters in? How is the Spirit different? Support the showVisit us at…
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Never Enough Signs
There are never enough signs, and never a persuasive enough reason to follow Christ. It is through the Good News that Jesus draws people to himself. John…
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Sir, We Wish to See Jesus
The simple request of some visiting Greeks to Jerusalem ought also to be our request of any preacher: we want to see Jesus. Support the showVisit us at…
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Something Has to Be Done
Things are clearly out of control. Something has to be done. Praise God, it was Christ Jesus who did something about it. Support the showVisit us at…
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Hope for Dry Bones
Do you feel like hope is gone, like you're cut off from friends and neighbors, and that your bones are getting dry? Today the Lord speaks and offers the hope…
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Which God Do You Seek?
Who is responsible for the coronavirus? Is it something we did? Or does God use these disasters to demonstrate his work among us? John 9:1-41.Support the…
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No Small Affair
When God acts, it is often through very small things. But through those small things the Lord does work that saves us and redeems the world.Support the…
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Money Power Fame
When Satan tempts us, he goes for the Big Three: Money, Power and Fame. He tempts Jesus with the same Big Three as well. By conquering those temptations, Jesus…