Elevation Waterloo Sermons

This Sunday we open up our nine-part series on one of the most difficult books of the Old Testament. Devon explores how the uncomfortable and abstract nature of Ecclesiastes is intentionally present, and also an essential aspect of the teaching of this book. 

The Youth took over our regular Sunday gathering! This week, our Youth commandeered over pretty much the whole service, including the welcome and greetings, worship, communion, announcements, kids dismissal, and teaching. Tessa (and Parker) spoke about Jesus as the embodiment of God living a life to the fullest through humility and surrender, capturing the essence of Philippians 2:5-11. 

This Sunday, we’re continuing our 2-week ‘Church as a Common Collective’ series with a look at how God can bring beauty out of brokenness. Join us as Mel, Shane, and Sophie each share their personal stories about God’s providence in times of despair. Please note that this week's message contains sensitive content, including discussions on health crises, homophobia, loss, and miscarriage.

This week, join us as we explore the theme of God’s miraculous intervention throughout the Old Testament and its profound connection to Pentecost. Together, we’ll ponder the intriguing question: Why does goodness often seems chaotic in this world?

Understanding our own belovedness transforms us, and in doing so transforms our understanding of others. When we see others through the eyes of Jesus’ love we realize that even our enemies are beloved. But belovedness does not mean we lack boundaries, but instead belovedness calls us into transformed living.  This week, Brian will be rounding off the current series with his topic on how  Belovedne...

As we continue our series on  Belovedness , Cathleen will guide us through “Breaking the Binary of Belovedness.” We’ll explore how everyone, from the prodigal to the powerful, from the marginalized to the magnified, is deeply cherished. Join us as we embark on a journey beyond the constraints of binary thinking to recognizing, celebrating and embracing the belovedness of all, paving the way for in...

This Sunday we will begin a sermon series on Belovedness. Mark Dettweiler will speak about the positive changes that arise as we embrace God’s love for us and live each day as His beloved.  

In the accounts of the Resurrection recorded in the varied Gospels a strange theme occurs: when Jesus shows up after the his resurrection even the people who knew Him most intimately fail to recognize Him! Join us this Easter morning as we look at these puzzling stories and unpack the ways that we too can fail to recognize Jesus and the work of Resurrection in own lives. 

Join us on Palm Sunday as we explore repentance as a radical reimagining of a better world beyond our current constructs. Discover how the crowds lining the streets on Palm Sunday struggled to envision a better way, and how Jesus’ entrance was inviting both them and us to imagine and partner with Him in ushering in the new KINdom.

As we continue in our series on repentance and repair, we will look at the Galatian church to see how fear often prevents us from living  out the full freedom of following Jesus. 

This week we will continue to dig into our Repentance and Repair series as we walk through the season of Lent. We will be spending some time exploring what it looks like to approach the practices of repentance and repair communally, as well as sharing the Eucharist together as a community.

This past Sunday, Devon Wagler invited us to explore repentance in light of hidden injustices in our midst, and around the world. We explored a practice of communal grace united with our repentance, and discussed modes of repair in our lives. If you missed it or would like to hear it again, head on over to our podcast.

This past Sunday, we started our lent season with a look at the series themed 'Repentance and Repair'. If you missed out, join teaching team member Brian Pengelly on our podcast as he helps us explore the theme, leaning on the scripture from Matthew 12:1-8.

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.