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Liberating Peace
Every family has its rules. They are the foundational principles that give shape to family life and family relationships. There are rules about chores and responsibili...
Liberating Allegiance
Who is your team, the community with whom you share something important in common, which creates a deep sense of belonging? For sports fans, if you see someone wearing...
Liberating Trust
The are few things more frustrating than being "let down" by someone who wasn't as good as their word. We've all experienced that feeling, whether in small ways like b...
Liberating Dependence
It has been said that over the past year we have been battling two pandemics: one medical and one financial. It has been a challenging year for many of us who have los...
Liberating Obedience
Have you ever taken a "shortcut" to try to accomplish an important goal? Perhaps you experimented with a fad diet or intermittent fasting to try to get ready for beach...
The Privilege of Following Christ
Many people seem obsessed with the Royal family. People love to celebrate their weddings and childbirths and to indulge in their turmoil, like Harry and Meghan relinqu...
Come To The Table Flipping
Who is the most hospitable person that you know? Think of someone you know who is a model of the kind of friendliness, generous welcome and warmth we associate with gr...
Hidden Beauty
Most of us have mixed feelings about our bodies – parts of ourselves that we’re proud of, and parts that make us feel ashamed. Whether it’s the smile we got from our m...
Easter Sunday
It’s been a long, dark, cold, and lonely winter. We’ve been isolated, polarized, and fatigued, surrounded by despair and even death. But even though we’ve journeyed th...
Good Friday
No event in history evokes such a mix of emotions, debate, and faith as the story of the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus. It has become the subject of countles...
Palm Sunday
The image of Jesus hanging on the cross is one of the most iconic images world-wide. But what not many people realize is that this was set in motion by one of the most...
The Promise of Liberation
As you watch the events of our world unfold around you, where do you imagine the world is headed? The COVID-19 vaccine spreading around the world might suggest that wi...
The Pathway of Liberation
Have you ever felt "trapped" by your circumstances or anxious about where your life is headed? Sometimes we are trapped by the bad choices that we ourselves have made,...
The People of Liberation
How would you describe yourself to others? In other words, what do you consider to be part of your fundamental identity, part of who you really are? We always start wi...
The Posture of Liberation
Can you think of a lesson that you had to learn the hard way? Maybe it was a career move that didn't go as planned, a disastrous relationship, or a conversation that b...
The Purpose of Liberation
Why is spirituality an important part of your life? What do you hope to get out of making religious participation a priority? Perhaps some of us are thinking about the...
The Power of Liberation
What would you say is the most important factor in achieving the life you've always wanted? Some people believe that it is money that makes the world go round, while o...
Refocusing on the Message of Jesus
Jesus said a lot of memorable things. But perhaps His most famous of all were a talk he gave that we now refer to as 'The Sermon On The Mount'. Tackling everything fro...
Re-Opening the Church
One of the questions people have been asking lately around here is, "When are we re-opening the church?" But the truth is, the church has never been closed. The presen...
Reclaiming the Role of Friendship
Life was never meant to be lived alone. In fact, alone-ness is the only thing God created and declared "not good." Bottom line: we're hard-wired for relationships. But...
Realizing There's No Place Like Home
It's been almost a year since we were told to "stay home." In that time, some have leaned into the gift of a slower-pace and an empty calendar, spending more time with...
Resolving to Put God First
New Year's Eve is one of the most hyped events every year. Still aglow from holiday festivities, we bask in the hope of what a new year will bring. It's the thrill of ...
Chapter Four
At Southridge we like to say that “friendship makes the difference” when we are in relationships with people who are different than ourselves. But what kind of differ...
Chapter Three
Martin Luther King Jr. famously wrote “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere…Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” But how do we take ...
Chapter Two
You’ve probably heard the expression “keep up or get left behind”. Realizing that all is not right in the familiar and comfortable systems around us, it may seem like ...
Chapter One
The news cycles change rapidly enough that, if we try hard enough, we can ignore the issues until they seem to go away. But if we’re being honest with ourselves, we kn...
The Powerful Absence of God
You have probably experienced the sad and undeniable reality that "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." You have probably experienced the crushing defea...
What to Do When God Wants To Kill You
As far as inspiring stories go, there is hardly a better source than the Bible. It is filled with incredible (sometimes, literally in-credible) stories about an incred...
A Poor Excuse of a Person
Exodus is, in part, a story about the incredible way that God uses Moses to set Israel free from slavery. He becomes a prophet for God, an instigator of mass protest, ...
Seeing God
As a church, we talk a lot about encountering the God who is revealed in Jesus. We talk about encountering God in worship, either in the moving, truth-filled songs we ...
