Southside Community Church - Milton

Sunday, December 18, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood During Advent we celebrate the first coming of King Jesus, but the Christian hope is the future coming of King Jesus. This Sunday we’ll explore how we live into the anticipation of Jesus’s arrival as the King who came and the King who is still to come.

Sunday, December 11, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Revelation 1.8 Jesus' existence did not begin at conception in Mary's womb although we often seem to assume that in our understanding of the Bible's teaching about God. Our teaching on Sunday will be on the subject of His pre-existence and what the transition to humanness entailed. Our minds are indeed finite and a spoiler alert should be noted here: we can't understand that God always was in God's Trinity and we must accept by faith having enough reason to trust in God's self disclosure.

Sunday, December 4, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Rev 1.8; 21.6 I am the Alpha and Omega - says God. When I first came across this I was confused as to why it was, what I presumed to be, the a and o of the alphabet! Then came wonderful studies in Greek when I realized that they were the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Now that we're clear, what does this mean?

Sunday, November 27, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Blessed are the Peacemakers

Sunday, November 20, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted.. This Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. We are joining in heart and spirit with sisters and brothers who are facing unimaginable levels of hardship because of their faith. As we are attentive to the universal nature of the church we must pray into our unity and spiritual solidarity.

Sunday, November 13, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.7 Blessed are the Merciful - for they will receive Mercy.. So many of the Beatitudes are reciprocal - they adhere to Jesus' teaching that we should do to others as we hope they will do to us. What a priceless aspect of Christian wisdom! What a practical lesson!

Sunday, October 23, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Matthew 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek"

Sunday, October 16, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5 A rather shocking indictment of evangelicalism is that we simply accessorize our lives with our faith rather than become actual disciples of Jesus. This Sunday we’ll ask if we have understood how terribly radical the message of Jesus is. He concludes his teaching with an invitation to follow Him.

Sunday, October 9, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.1-11 What does it mean to be “blessed?” Is it the same as “happy?” We’re beginning a teaching series this Sunday called “the makarioi” in which we’ll look at Jesus’ teaching on the Beatitudes and try to discover what it means to be the makarioi

Sunday, September 25, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Ephesians 4.6-13 The so-called APEPT or APEST gifts have been the topic of conversation in the recent Missional movement in the church. We’ll review them and consider how we understand the theology of Ephesians 4 and how we might view these 5 as the general “trades” as we are employed to build the church.

Sunday, September 18, 2022 Speaker: Mike Burns What happens when deceptive ideas move beyond the lie and begin to shape the narratives of our life? From personal narratives to cultural narratives, these are the stories we tell ourselves about us, our neighbours, and the world around us. For many, these often go unexplored and remain in the realm of the subconscious, which makes discerning the truth that much harder. This Sunday we’ll just scratch the surface of understanding the power of narrative in our lives and then examine how we can be transformed by the truth of our faith and a better understanding of who we are, who are neighbour is, and who God is.

September 4, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell The root cause of our Anxiety Romans 1 is an explicit description of our separation form God, our embarking on a wild ride into the frontier of a wilderness in which we don’t belong. Let’s have a careful look at Paul’s claims here.

Sunday, August 28, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Proverbs 1:7 We open up the conversation about fearing the Lord. In the West, we have softened this language to mean only respect and reverence, but biblically it means far more than that. We will discover the freedom and peace found in fearing the Lord without minimizing what that fear means and ought to look like for 21st century westerners.

August 21, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 6:25-34 We will follow up last Sunday’s conversation about the two rival masters by seeking wisdom about living in the world of money and wealth as Jesus followers. Remember the rich young ruler who had everything right about his morality, but when challenged to sell everything and give to the poor? He couldn’t do it and therefore wouldn’t get into the Kingdom. Harsh?

Sunday, August 14, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Matthew 6:19-24 The Christian struggle is a unique one in the respect that we both live in the world, and are subsequently inundated with the same amount of competition for our attention, desires, and treasures as everyone else in our communities, while at the same time we are called to serve Jesus and Jesus alone. This deadly mix leaves us as anxious, if not more, than those around us. This Sunday we are going to talk about Jesus’ teaching on serving two masters and call out our fears about serving one and losing out on the benefit of serving the other.

Sunday, August 7, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves, take up his cross, and follow me” We live in a culture that suggests meaning and purpose is not something to be found outside of ourselves, but within ourselves. Couple that with an attention economy that is always selling you something on the basis that there good life is achieved by fulfilling all your desires. This perfect storm has left us anxiously feeding fleshly desires for the sake of creating meaning in our lives. This Sunday we’ll talk about Jesus’s call to deny our fleshly desires, allow them to be properly reordered by taking up our cross, and finding meaning in God’s intended purposes for us rather than creating it for ourselves.

July 31, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 John 2.15-17 Which one could be your undoing? As we explore our relationship with the world we would be wise to know where we are vulnerable to the world system. Then we can be present in and for the world as we posture ourselves to be against it.

July 24, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 17.15-19 Have you ever found yourself rationalizing a behaviour because “everyone else is doing it”? Perhaps it was downloading or photocopying something that was copyrighted. A pastor friend of mine endorsed making photocopies of a book saying “copyright just means copy it right”! We are invited to swim upstream as followers of the Way. It’s key to our proper orientation to the world of people and the world system. Let’s get our orientation “trued.”

July 17, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood 1 Peter 2:9-22 This Sunday Pastor Andrew is going to continue the conversation we started last week on The Flesh. We’ll focus on the topic of freedom; what is true freedom and how do we get there. There will be another time for Q&A at the end of the talk, so bring your thoughts, feelings, questions and ponderings.

July 10, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood John 8:34-36 Galatians 5:13-17 Andrew will introduce the idea of “The Flesh” and how that can work against us becoming a non-anxious presence.