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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...
Surrendered Love
The idea of worshiping idols (which the second commandment forbids) is a strange one to Western society, and to the way we practice our religions. Aside perhaps from C...
Devoted Love
What are you most "devoted" to? Most of us are devoted to relationships: with our families and friends, even with our favourite teams and bands. Some of us are devoted...
The Life of Love
So much of our religious energy is spent in trying to clarify what we think about God, but have you ever wondered what God thinks of you? We probably have our suspicio...
The Law of Love
"What does God want from us?" That is the question that throughout history has formed the heart of every genuine human quest to connect with the divine. Entire religio...
A Potential Beyond Yourself
Think back to the most significant influences in your early life, the people who changed the trajectory of your life. Maybe it was your parents, grandparents, or foste...
A Purpose Beyond Yourself
In 2009, Simon Sinek delivered the third most watched TED talk of all time. Its premise was simple: the most effective people, movements, and organizations all start b...
A People Beyond Yourself
We’ve spent much of the last year and a half self-isolated, quarantined, working from home, navigating massive challenges and changes mostly on our own. In addition, C...
A Power Beyond Yourself
This has been a challenging season for most of us. COVID has been significantly disruptive in our financial and work lives, friendships and family relationships, menta...
The Point: Beyond Yourself
Our culture values and promotes a healthy sense of "self." We are told to know ourselves and love ourselves, to have a healthy self-esteem, full of self-confidence and...
Open to Healing
These days it feels like we are starting to get our lives back. We are out and about more than we have been in a year and half. We are seeing friends more, rediscoveri...
Open Invitations
There is an old joke that says, "A vegan, an atheist, and a cross-fitter walk into a bar... and thirty seconds later everybody knows it." The joke is that when people ...
Open Lives
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." With these words, Jesus affirms that our hearts are fully devoted to whatever we most fully invest in. Or, to ...
Open Arms
The fear in our world is palpable, and seems to be growing. We talk as though everyone is fighting someone, and "they" are fighting against "us." We say that the polit...
Open Minds
You've heard the saying, "Knowledge is power." You've experienced its truth in too many ways to count. The idea is thousands of years old, found in the Jewish book of ...
Open Hearts
Have you ever felt "used" by someone you thought genuinely cared about you? Perhaps it was someone who vowed to love you no matter what, only to walk away when the rel...
The Power of Potluck
It’s often said that it takes a village to raise a child. And when it comes to raising the next generation at Southridge, all of us are that village! There’s no substi...
The Perfect Pairing
The art of delegation is a valuable skill, but there are some things you simply can’t outsource. We sometimes behave as though it’s the school’s job to make my kids sm...
The Proper Place-Setting
Every good parent strives to give their kids a better life; to have more, do more, and be more than they could. Knowing no parent can do it all, we often access outsid...
