Free Grace Vernon

February 9, 2025Exodus 5Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

February 2, 2025Exodus 4: 18-31Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Sunday, January 25, 2025Exodus 3:13-22Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Series: ExodusExodus 3:1-16Sunday, March 19, 2025Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Sunday, January 12, 2025Series: ExodusScripture: Exodus 2:1-25Pastor Ian CrooksFree Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Sunday, January 5th 2025Sermon: 'From slavery to salvation' Exodus 1:1-22Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Sunday, December 29th 2024Sermon: 'The Sign and the Saviour' Luke 2:15-21Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Luke 2Pastor Ian Crooks Free Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Matthew 12:46-50 Sunday, December 15, 2024Pastor Ian CrooksFree Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination. We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd). Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Sunday, December 8th 2024Sermon: 'This Generation' Matthew 12:38-45 Pastor Ian CrooksFree Grace VernonFree Grace Vernon Presbyterian Church is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination.We seek to be a Gospel Centered Church which is different than moralism or liberalism. We believe it is the gospel of Christ that has power to transform people’s lives. Our problems are solved by the gospel, not trying harder! Do you live in or are VERNON, BC and looking for a Reformed and evangelical church? We would love to have you join us! We meet at 10:30am at Vernon Christian School (6920 Pleasant Valley Rd).Find out more at https://freegracevernon.com

Matthew 12:1-21Ian CrooksFree Grace Vernon

Sunday, November 17th 2024Matthew 11:20-30 Ian CrooksFree Grace Vernon

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October 12, 2024Matthew 9:18-34Ian CrooksFree Grace Vernon

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Sunday, September 29, 2024Text: Mark 6:30-44Speaker: David BootsmaFree Grace Vernon

Matthew 8:28-9:8Sunday, September 22, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Vernon

Series: MatthewSunday, September 15, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian Vernon

Speaker: David BootsmaScripture: John 2Sunday, August 18, 2024Free Grace Vernon Church

Speaker: Brian Spence2 Corinthians 5:17-21Sunday, August 25, 2024

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Speaker: Ian CrooksSunday, August 11, 2024Lamentations 5Free Grace Vernon Church

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Sunday, June 23rd, 2024Sermon title: 'So sad, so lonely!' Lamentations 1 Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BC

Sunday, June 16th, 2024Sermon title: 'Either/or' Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BCMatthew 7:13-2913 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”28 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.God’s prophet Elijah calls God’s people to choose…… 1 Kings 18:21, ‘How long will you go limping between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.’ And the people did not answer him a word’ Jesus calls us to a decision that is, ‘Either …..or’ Life in His kingdom …….or life outside His kingdomHeaven ……..or HellDon Carson ‘A man will ignore these blessings and curses only at his own eternal peril’A choice between ……2 ways, 2 trees, 2 claims, 2 foundations

Sunday, June 1, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BCMatthew 7:1-61 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. 6 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. Natasha Crain, ‘If anything at all is to be classified as sin in secular culture, it’s the act of ‘judging others’. Go ahead and follow your heart and pursue your own happiness, but don’t stop along the way to claim that someone else is following their heart or pursuing their happiness wrongly’

May 26, 2024Series: MatthewText: Matthew 6:25-34Pastor Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BC

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Matthew 5:43-48April 21, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Vernon

Sunday, April 14th, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian Church, Vernon, BCMatthew 5:38-4338 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.‘You have heard that it was said’ - ‘But I say to you’ The Law of Retaliation ……The Royal Law 1. The Law of Retaliation ‘You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ v382. The Royal Law‘But I say to you, ‘Do not resist the one who is evil.’ v39a Dignity - Security - Liberty - Property Dignity‘But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ v39bA gesture of contempt ……an insult to the one who’s slapped Are we ready to endure a loss of dignity …..rather than retaliate? We leave vengeance to the Lord ……we trust in His perfect vindication even as we follow the way of His Son, Jesus Christ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do' Luke 23:34Security‘And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.’ v40 We don’t have to always demand our own rights when we’ve been wronged ……or always press for our own interests1 Corinthians 6:7 ‘Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?’ Liberty ‘And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.’ v41When we're called to, ‘Go the extra mile’ Property ‘Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.’ v42Jesus calls us to be wise in our giving …..to those who are unable to help themselves James 2:15-16, ‘If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?’ Don Carson, ‘Personal self-sacrifice displaces personal retribution; for this is the way the saviour himself went, the way of the Cross’ Possible only as we place our trust in the One who, ‘Did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross’ - Philippians 2:7-8

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Matthew 5: 27-32Ian CrooksSunday, March 17, 2024Free Grace Presbyterian Church, Vernon, BC

John 20:1-10March 31, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BV

Sunday, March 10, 2024Matthew 5:21-26Pastor Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian ChurchVernon, BC

Matthew 5:17-20Sunday, March 3, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian Church

Matthew 5:13-16February 25, 2024Ian CrooksFree Grace Prebyterian Church

Sunday, February 18, 2024Series: MatthewPassage: Matthew 5:1-12Ian CrooksFree Grace Presbyterian Church

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Matthew 2Speaker: Ian CrooksSunday, January 14, 2024Free Grace Vernon

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