Pastor Dan Alcantara 14 September 2026 Jesus cares about our Mondays ↓ For most people, most of the time, Monday is a rough day. The daily grind begins after the weekend rest. Along with this comes the temptation to think that Sunday has nothing to do with Mondays or Tuesdays or Wednesdays. We spent a bit of time discussing this during our Fireside chat last night. Why is it that it feels like Sunday is so detached from the rest of the week? One potential answer is that our culture sees a...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Pastor Dan Alcantara 7 September 2026 Why are we going through John's Gospel? ↓ Week after week, Sunday after Sunday, we talk about the gospel at Ardgowan Square. We talk about who Jesus is, what Jesus did, and why Jesus did it. We talk about what we must do to be saved. We talk about how we can experience forgiveness of sin, reconciliation with God and others, healing in life, peace for today, peace for tonight. During our Sunday Night Fireside discussion, the question came up regarding why...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
At Sunday Night Firesides last night, we were discussing how we can discern truth from error, where false beliefs come from, and what part the church can play in helping us to be more discerning. This is all the more important as the culture around us becomes more pluralistic, as technology progresses, and as ‘almost true’ begins to look more and more like ‘actually true’. We are right to be concerned about what we see going on around us. Yet, there is an even greater danger which lurks in...
2 months ago • 2 min read
God has a history of using people who appear, feel, or seem unremarkable in order to fulfill his purposes on earth. Abraham was a nobody in a foreign land. Joseph was the second-youngest son. Gideon was a nobody from an insignificant family in an insignificant tribe. King David was the youngest son. And we see this most clearly in the Lord Jesus. He was born in scandal. He was the son, as it was supposed, of the carpenter. He was brought up in a backwater and nobody expected anything good to...
3 months ago • 1 min read