Elevation Waterloo Sermons

This week we turn our focus to the third aspect of our vision: reimagined church. Join Mel Burke and Steve Coupland as they explore this idea together.

We are entering into a three week conversation on our vision of open hands, diverse voices, and reimagined church. This week we will explore the idea of “open hands” as a practice leading to liberation, a deeper connection with God and a more compassionate and connected humanity. Join Cathleen Getchell as she starts this series off.

This Sunday, we turn our attention toward the Epiphany, as we continue to explore some of the details of the biblical narrative surrounding the coming of Christ. Brian Pengelly will be sharing with us, and we hope that you are able to join us as we begin this new year together!

On this, the last Sunday of 2023, we turn our attention to the incarnation, considering the implications of this theologically rich activity of God.

This week in Advent we’re continuing in our series, ‘ Come, Lord Jesus’ ; diving deeper into the hope that Jesus brings when He comes, and how that still rings true today.

This Sunday is the start of the new Church year, which begins in the season of Advent. For our three Sunday’s of Advent (Dec 3, 10, and 17), we will locating ourselves in a series we’re calling Come Lord Jesus . As Advent anticipates Christmas, so to will each of our Sunday’s urge us in anticipation of the coming of Christ in our lives. We begin this Sunday with a look at the landscape of darkness...

We’re concluding our “Through the Lens of Jesus” series this week. We’ll be spending time looking at some of the ways that the lens of Jesus invites us to both consider and reorient our lives to the upside down nature of the Kin-dom.

This week, we continue our series on looking at scripture through the lens of Jesus. Devon explores how Christ’s focus on peacemaking may inform our approach to scripture as a whole.

This Sunday we continue in our series “Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Jesus” with Cathleen inviting us to consider that our journey with Jesus encourages a shift from a posture of certainty to one of curiosity.

This Sunday we continue in our series of reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus with Mark Dettweiler speaking. We will turn to a familiar story in John 8, considering the shift from judgment to grace that we see in Jesus.

This week we will continue our series about learning to read the Bible through the Jesus-centred lens, with a deeper dive into Lectio Divina. What is lectio divina? Lectio = word; divina = sacred

What does it mean to read scripture through the lens of Jesus? Or that Jesus is the one through whom we read scripture? Join us this week as we wade into the waters of this important conversation.

This week we continue our series on metaphors for our church as we return to the metaphor of an open table. Brian Pengelly will be bringing us back to the idea of a table big enough that we can always add another chair and everyone feels at home and is welcome. We will also be re-examining 1 Corinthians 11 and how the text was about making everyone included, rather than making sure only the worthy...

This week we will continue our three-part series looking at metaphors for the church. We will explore the theme of textiles as we consider the ways that the Church is like a woven tapestry – full of beauty, diversity, and engaged in the work of mending and repair. Evolving Faith podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TjGbGZSaPoCMwFV3tXas8

This week we began to look at the first of three different metaphors for the church as we consider our identity moving forward. What if we saw ourselves through the lens of an ecological metaphor, like a forest garden, as a community of cultivation, interdependence, rootedness, and vibrant justice? “When you lack the verdancy of justice, your soul is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally w...

This week, we will wrap up our current series on the theology and practice of foot-washing by leaning into the practice. Our service will feature some more contemplative elements. During the discussion time in the gym, there will be an opportunity for anyone interested to practice foot-washing (or hand-washing as an alternative) outside in the courtyard. This is an invitation, and everyone can mak...

In our second week looking at the theology and practice of foot washing, we will be looking at the particular story of Jesus washing the feet of Judas. What does it mean to love and serve those that are different than us, or that we might consider as our enemies? How do we bear with one another even if we are so markedly different at times?

This Sunday we're exploring another sacrament of the Church: footwashing. This ancient practice finds its origin in the story of Jesus who modelled servant leadership to his friends and followers who often asked questions about their own importance. While we won’t actively be practicing footwashing this week, we’ll instead be looking at the virtue of humility that undergirds this practice. Epi...

We are continuing our Deep and Wide series this week, exploring the length, width, height, and depth of God’s love. We are excited to have Patricia Layng speak on the depth of God’s love for us.

We are continuing our Deep and Wide series this week, exploring the length, width, height, and depth of God’s love. We are excited to have Jonathon Sawatzky speak on the width of God’s love for us.

We are diving into our four-part Deep and Wide series starting this week, exploring the length, width, height, and depth of God's love. This Sunday we are excited to have Cathleen Getchell speak on the length of God's love for us.

This week, we will be talking about about how we know and experience God as an introduction to our July series: Deep and Wide. We’ll be exploring a few ideas as we navigate the mystery of knowing and experiencing the love of God who is vast and beyond us, and closer than the air we breathe.

This Sunday, we will turn our attention to the ancient practice of baptism. Why do we do it and what meaning does it carry for us as individuals and as a community? We will explore three main aspects of baptism.

It's Pentecost Sunday. It's the birth of the Church and the end of the Easter season. We'll be wrapping up this Tabled series by pulling together some developing themes around the Eucharist table. If God is the host, then the table is not ours; it is Christ's. And if the character of God is one of generosity and an open embrace, then everyone is invited to come and eat. Stemming fr...

We continue in our series called Tabled. This week we turn our focus to the peacemaking power of food. At the centre of this idea is sharing food together, and yet, we can broadly sketch out a great number of injustices - historical and present day - that surround and surface from food. This Sunday we will map out some of the ways justice is lacking when it comes to food before we pivot toward pea...