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The Best Friendships
Show me your friends and I'll show you your future! The truth is, we are shaped more by the relationships we choose than by any other thing. That's why around here we ...
The Best Approach
It's said, You are what you eat. Beyond our diet, our lives are increasingly defined by the content we consume. It's never been easier to scroll, stream, and shop for ...
The Best Teacher
Xunzi, a Confucian scholar who lived 300 years before Jesus, once said, “What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.” Modern science confir...
The FOOTSTEPS of Faith: How to grow spiritually
There's an old joke that asks, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice." The simple truth is that in order to be good at anything, you need to w...
The FAMILY of Faith: The role of community
It is said that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, but conformity. Whether you're part of a friendship group, a family, a workplace, or ethnic community, it can...
The FRAMEWORK of Faith: How to read the Bible
Every car has a user manual and every dish has a recipe. Every subject has a textbook, every building has a blueprint, and every IKEA bookshelf has assembly instructio...
The FOCUS of Faith: What following Jesus really means
We live in a world increasingly defined by camps: the political party we support, the team we cheer for, the brands we're loyal to, whether you're wealthy or working-c...
A Time For Everything
In 1965, a folk band called The Byrds turned the words of Ecclesiastes 3 into an international hit single called, “Turn! Turn! Turn!” To everything, there is a season,...
Easter Sunday
An early Sunday morning that changed the course of human history; that is what we celebrate at Easter. There's no weekend more significant in the life of the church, s...
Good Friday
Good Friday is an opportunity to reflect, contemplate, and embrace the significance of Jesus's death on the cross. It's a chance to appreciate his loving sacrifice thr...
Recovering From Our Weariness
Maybe the truest thing about two years is simply that it has caused unprecedented amounts of stress. We have been overwhelmed by everything that has happened, and cont...
Healing Our Division
Perhaps the most laughable line in the poem, "In the Time of Pandemic," is the one that imagined COVID as a time when we would experience "the absence of people living...
Grieving Our Loss
There probably isn't a better word to describe our collective experience over the last two years than the word "loss." At one time or another, for one person or anothe...
Acknowledging Our Trauma
In February, 2021, the BBC refered to the global pandemic as the "first global mass trauma event for several decades. It's arguably the first of its kind since World W...
Kingdom Love
One of the things that we've seen over and over again during this study of The Ten Commandments is that what God describes in them is more than just a way to live in t...
Honest Love
Have you ever been lied about or been the victim of the rumour-mill, where jealous or hate-filled people have spread malicious and salacious gossip about you that just...
Generous Love
Have you every been the victim of a mugging, theft, or had someone break into your home? On the one hand, they are only "things." Yet, on the other, it is an incredibl...
Faithful Love
One of the dangers of a list like The Ten Commandments is that it feeds our insatiable desire for self-righteousness. Those who have not broken these commandments feel...
Life-Giving Love
How would one commit the perfect murder? It is a question that people have mused about for a long time. It would have to be one where there are no witnesses, no relati...
Honouring Love
Joyce Maynard once said, "The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn." This statement probably resonates for many of us. Our relationships wit...
Love Always Hopes
There's been a lot to feel hopeless about over the last couple years. Not only has this been hard on each of us personally, but it's likely affected our relationships....
Love Always Protects
It's been famously sung that "love hurts." And while relationships certainly involve the risk of putting yourself out there and potentially experiencing the hurt of lo...
Making The New Year New
In some ways it is very ironic to celebrate a New Year hoping that we can final go back to the way things used to be! So much has changed in the last two years, so muc...
Upside Down Christmas at Southridge
Christmas is the one time of year when, for many people, everything finally seems to be the way it is supposed to be. For that short season, lives are filled with the ...
Table Talk: Picking Up the Tab
Our goal as a church is for every one of us to take our place at the table, participating in seeing the church change and grow in compassion and Christlikeness. But th...
Table Talk: Truth & Reconciliation
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was created through a legal settlement between Indigenous communities, the federal government, and churches to inform...
Table Talk: Harm Reduction
Change is hard, even positive ones. To let go of prior ways of being, even to embrace better ways of being, is still very hard to do. To that end, the shelter communit...
Hope Lives: A Place at the Table
One of the most inspiring and Christlike part of our church is the way that hundreds of us are learning to engage in friendships of mutuality and love with our margina...
Prioritizing Love
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are gradually rediscovering the right way to answer the inevitable question: "How are you doing?" The right answer, of course,...
Honouring Love
The third commandment is likely a familiar one: "Do not take the Lord's name in vain." Those who grew up in the church were told that it forbids anyone from speaking G...
