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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 ...
The Person of the Hour
The questions surrounding elections seem to be in the air these days. With a newly elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the potential for a federal elec...
The Story of My Life
The renowned British historian Edmund Burke once wrote, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." Yet, we live in an era of declining interest in the pas...
Becoming Far-Sighted
As if there wasn't enough division and polarization already, add to issues like COVID-19 and racial injustice a generational divide across our society. In the church ...
Seeing Double
In addition to navigating the pandemic, this season has been marked by another theme: racial injustice. And again, strong feelings emerge that have greater potential ...
Life Through The Pandemic Lens
If this pandemic has done nothing else, it's polarized our society. Some are paralyzed with anxiety regarding the medical threats while others rant about conspiracy t...
Vision Day
If COVID-19 has done nothing else to Christians, it's challenged them to ask, "How can you continue to be a church without going to church?" This has not only confused...
Our New Normal
A lot has happened since we began our journey into the book of Galatians. We began this series in the fall of 2019, as a way to re-explore the biblical concept of grac...
The Point of a Good Life
"No good deed goes unpunished," or so the saying goes. It is a sarcastic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In o...
In It Together
According to some recent studies among people who are disillusioned with the church, people who avoid the church do so because it is too political, judgmental, patriar...
A Fruitful Faith
As a western democracy, one of the values we cherish the most is the value of freedom. Whether it is the freedom of conscience and religion, the freedom of thought and...
Breaking The Rules
From parents to teachers to bosses to politicians, people who are responsible for social groups of various sizes and shapes and characters all seem to share one fundam...
Getting Choosey
We live in a world of options. There are a seeming infinite number of alternatives available to us, from the type toothpaste or deodorant you use, how you consume coun...
Week Three
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Week Two
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Week One
Jesus said that, if His followers would stand together as one unified community, the watching world would be compelled to believe in God’s love. Unity was such a high ...
Simplicity: Practicing Contentment
How many times have you asked someone how they're doing, only to have them reply, "Busy." For how many of us is that our regular answer too? So much of our lives have ...
Sabbath: Relishing the Power of Unproductivity
Many of us have had to acclimatize to this weird dynamic of "working from home," or being home and trying to get work done (as well as homeschooling and/or parenting a...
Fasting: Embracing the Wisdom of Going Without
There are probably more than a few of us who have found that, with our schedules freed up, the one activity that is not canceled is consuming. We snack because we are ...
Celebration: Confronting Complaining with Gratitude
It is easy to go negative when life isn't going the way that we had hoped. Emotions like fear, envy, greed, entitlement, resentment, anger, and regret seem to live jus...
Solitude: Discovering God's Presence in the Absence
We live in a world where there seem to be a million ways to maintain relationships. Whether it's Netflix Party, Houseparty, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, tex...
Silence: Letting Go and Letting God
We live in a world filled with noise. Between music and media, traffic, lawn care, construction, people (and more!) we experience barely a moment of silence in our reg...
