Experiencing God with Tim Hart

This episode is message that Tim gave at the Quadra Island Bible Church on January 19, 2025. 

In this message Tim focuses on the opening verses of Roman’s 12, and then takes time to explore Paul’s theme of the Body of Christ described in verses 3-8. Paul exhorts the Church to be sober in their thinking, not think of themselves more highly than they ought to think but each in accordance with the measure of faith that God has assigned...

This episode is a sermon that Tim gave at the Quadra Island Bible Church on December 22, 2024. 

During the advent season, Christians all over the world take time to focus on the events surrounding Jesus first coming, and they celebrate the amazing moment in history when at the fullness of time, God himself took on flesh and made his dwelling among us. 

As we celebrate Christ’s entrance into the world, we also see ...

This episode is a message that Tim gave at the Quadra Island Bible Church on Sunday May 19, 2024.

In Luke chapter 14, Jesus was invited to dine with some Pharisees on the Sabbath, during which he taught them and told parables… Jesus made some challenging comments to them as he confronted head-on some of their misplaced religious confidence and exposed their self-righteousness. 

In this setting Jesus tells the para...

This episode is a message that Tim gave at Gateway Foursquare Church on November 5, 2023. For more information about Gateway Foursquare visit: https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/

Unity is a foundational characteristic of the Church in the New Testament and is a reflection of the very nature of God himself. One of the central themes of Jesus’ prayer as recorded by John is  that we as his followers would be one, as he and the Fath...

This episode is a message that Tim gave on September 10, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church in Campbell River BC. Visit https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/thisweek/ For more information about Gateway. 

Almost every book of the New Testament mentions suffering, hardships and persecution that believers face. It is talked about by Jesus early in the gospels during the sermon on the mount, and is mentioned throughout the New Testamen...

This episode is a message that Tim gave on August 13, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church in Campbell River BC. Visit  https://gatewayfoursquare.ca/ for more info.

As followers of Jesus, we are called to imitate Jesus, follow his example and become more and more like him. When Jesus came, he came as fully God, and yet he was also fully man. He fully embraced the human experience to demonstrate what it looks like to live in p...

This is part two of Tim speaking on Sunday June 11, 2023 at Gateway Foursquare Church on the topic of Healing in the New Testament. In the previous message, Tim looked more broadly at the over-arching theme of God’s willingness to heal, and the provision he made for healing in the cross of Calvary. 

This episode is a little longer than usual, and consists of two parts. For the first 50 minutes, Tim continues teaching on he...

On June 11, 2023 Tim was invited to speak at Gateway Foursquare Church on the topic of healing. 

In this episode, Tim takes a broad look into scripture at the overarching theme of God’s nature and character as a life-giving God who desires healing and freedom for his people. 

In a very general, over-arching sense - God is willing to heal - so much so that it’s something he accomplished on the cross and guarantees ...

This episode brings us to the conclusion of this series on the Church, looking specifically at one final aspect of the authority of believers.

Authority is the right (or authorization) to do something - to carry out a certain action, or make a decision. In the last few episodes, Tim presented three types of authority that apply to Christians: common authority, gift-based authority, and positional authority. 

In th...

Jesus has delegated authority to the Church. In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus tells Peter “…you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven…” (Matthew 16:18-19).

In the last episode we began the discussion ...

As this series comes to a close, there is one final aspect of the Church to look into - that is the authority of the Church. 

There are several passages of scripture that indicate that Jesus has delegated his authority to the Church. The questions that arise from this are: What is the nature of this authority? How is it expressed? And, what are it’s limitations? 

Tune in as we explore the topic of the authority of...

Tim is back with another episode in this series “The Church: It’s makeup, it’s marks, and it’s mission.” 

What are the purposes of the Church? First, to love and worship God. Second, to love one another and build up the body of Christ. In this episode we will take a look at the third purpose of the Church: To love the world and make disciples of all nations. 

In a previous series, Tim discussed the Great Commissio...

Paul wrote “what then brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up” (1 Corinthians 14:26). 

As we continue this series on the topic of The Church, this episode looks further into the purposes of the Church, specifically that the Church exists to build itself up in love. 

It is impossible to live out the Christi...

Author Wayne Grudem in his book “Systematic Theology” identifies three purposes of the Church. Firstly the Church exists to love and worship The Lord. Secondly, it functions to build itself up in Love; and thirdly, the Church works together to fulfill the Great Commission. 

In this episode Tim focuses on the first of these purposes - worship. Many hours could be spent teaching on this subject, and there are hundreds of rel...

In this episode Tim continues the study on The Church, looking at how the bible defines “Church,” and understanding its marks and characteristics.

As discussed in the first episode the Church in one sense, is the community of all genuine believers for all of time (including the genuine believers of the Old Testament, now enrolled in heaven. See Hebrews 12:22,23). 

There seems to be another way that the term “churc...

In this episode, Tim begins a new series looking into some of the foundational theology of  “The Church.” One author defined “church” as the gathering of all genuine believers throughout all of time.  In other words the church is the people of God! 

In a post-pandemic world, a lot of things have changed including where and how people work, how people travel, and how businesses and schools are structured. Like so many other...

This is it. The final episode in this series on Spiritual gifts. 

Tim continues with some of the commonly asked questions regarding spiritual gifts. Are there spiritual gifts in the Old Testament? How can I be certain which spiritual gifts I have? How do we implement gifts-based ministry in church? What are the implications for staff and volunteers at churches?  

Listen in for some important further discussion on ...

To wrap up this series, Tim addresses some of the commonly asked questions related to spiritual gifts. 

In this episode Tim answers the question, ‘are there other spiritual gifts not listed in the bible?’ There are in fact two other spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament that are not commonly talked about- the gifts of singleness (or celibacy), and martyrdom. Tim explores these two gifts, as well as a few other pot...

Jesus spent an entire night praying, and when day broke he called his disciples to himself, and chose from them 12 whom he designated “apostles.” 

These Apostles (and later the apostle Paul) became the foundation upon which the Church was established. They were sent out to preach, they had authority to heal and cast out demons, they bore witness to the resurrected Jesus, they had authority to write or approve scripture, an...