Grassroots Church | Thunder Bay, Ontario

As Pastor Steve closes this series on Forgiveness, he explores the sometimes awkward and difficult work of reconciliation, suggesting that as followers of Jesus, the work of reconciliation should always be what we strive for, yet accepting that because we cannot control the other person, it is not always guaranteed. 5 principles of reconciliatory work are shared as a place to start this important...

Forgiveness is not pretending the prison never existed. It is refusing to keep living there. This week, Steve explores level two of forgiveness: releasing our own hearts from bitterness, resentment and anger through time, intentionality and empathy. Download the Discussion Guide

Forgiveness is not pretending the offence didn’t happen or acting like the pain doesn’t matter. In this first message of The Air We Breathe , we explore Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 18 and the invitation to release others from the debts they owe us. Forgiven people become forgiving people, learning to breathe in grace and exhale forgiveness. Download the ⁠Discussion Guide⁠

Guest speaker Russell Pinson shares how maturity as followers of Jesus looks exactly opposite from how the world views maturity. Whereas maturity means increasing independence, Christian maturity means increasing dependence on Jesus. Download the Discussion Guide

Revelation ends not with fear but with healing. In this final message of the series, Pastor Steve looks at the Tree of Life in Revelation 22 and the surprising way John connects it to the cross. The way of Jesus is not domination, violence or self-preservation but self-giving love — and every time we live that way, we begin to enact new creation here and now. Download the Discussion Guide

In Week 3 of our New Heavens and New Earth series, we wrestle with Revelation 21:8 and the hope that evil itself will one day be fully removed from God’s good world. Until then, we live among the wheat and weeds, learning to resist Babylon now through truth, courage, forgiveness, humility and love. Download the Discussion Guide

This week we continue our Revelation mini-series by looking at one strange but powerful line: “there was no longer any sea.” In Scripture, the sea often symbolizes chaos, evil, empire and persecution. Revelation 21 gives us a vision of hope where evil is not merely contained but finally abolished — no more chaos, no more violence, no more death and no more sea. Download the Discussion Guide

We begin our final Apocalypse Unveiled mini-series, When Heaven Comes to Earth , by tracing the Bible’s temple story from Eden to the tabernacle, from Solomon’s temple to Jesus, from the Spirit-filled Church to the New Jerusalem. Revelation 21–22 is not a picture of God abandoning earth, but of heaven and earth finally reunited. The garden expands, the temple reaches its goal and the whole world b...

As we prepare for our mini-series into the last 2 chapters of Revelation in which we discuss the new heavens and new earth, we spent this week hearing from folks who can testify to God's Kingdom breaking in within our world, beginning with an update from the work of LifeWater Canada. May you be encouraged and your hope renewed as you listen to these testimonies of his kingdom coming now.

As we begin a miniseries within the larger series on the Apocalypse, we return to our theme of "glimpses of the Kingdom," where we testify to evidence of God's Kingdom showing up in our own lives and community. Today's story is from Matteo and Heidi Pauselli, who share their story of Huntington's Disease, with both the struggles--and unexpected joys--that have emerged along t...

In Revelation 19, Jesus is not revealed as a violent warrior but as the faithful and true Lamb who defeats evil through righteousness, truth and self-giving love. This sermon explores the fall of the Beast, the seriousness of evil and the hope that, because of the resurrection, the Lamb gets the final word. Download Discussion Guide

In this message from Apocalypse Unveiled , we wrestle with Revelation 14 and the meaning of God’s wrath. Reading the passage through the lens of the slain Lamb, we consider Babylon, judgment and how God’s fire may be less about vengeance and more about truth, consequence and refinement. Download Discussion Guide

On Resurrection Sunday, we pause to reflect on the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection and the hope of the final resurrection. Easter is bigger than “going to heaven when we die,” and the risen Jesus points us toward God’s promise to renew our bodies, renew creation and make all things new. The resurrection declares that death is not the end, creation is not abandoned and our hope is not escape, but re...

On Palm Sunday, we remember that two parades entered Jerusalem: Pilate’s parade of force and intimidation, and Jesus’ parade of humility and peace. In this message, we reflect on the kind of King Jesus is, the kind of power he reveals, and the ongoing temptation to drift back toward the way of domination rather than the way of self-giving love. As Holy Week begins, we are invited again to follow t...

In this personal message, Scott Wiebe looks at the Stages of Faith as developed by Brian McLaren in his book, "Faith After Doubt": Simplicity, Complexity, Perplexity, and Harmony. He examines the role of doubt in leading us through these stages and bringing us closer to God. This message was originally delivered on March 22, 2026.

Acts 8:26-40 tells the story of Philip encountering a traveler who comes to follow Jesus. In this message, guest speaker Scott Baker imagines what Philip might have been thinking and considering during this encounter, and how it can apply to us as we continue to work to follow Jesus. This message was originally delivered March 15, 2026. First Painting Second Painting Third Painting

Revelation 13 exposes two of the enemy’s oldest tactics: fear and deception. One beast uses fear to bend obedience, while the other uses deception to distort worship. In a world shaped by power, anxiety and false appearances, followers of Jesus are called to patient endurance, wise discernment and faithful allegiance to the Lamb. Download the Discussion Guide

In Revelation 12, John pulls back the curtain to reveal the deeper reality behind the brokenness of our world. Evil is not just bad behaviour or terrible people, but a parasitic, accusing force that seeks to corrupt God’s good creation. Yet Revelation refuses to let us be intimidated by it. The dragon cannot defeat Christ, cannot destroy God’s purposes, and cannot overcome the faithful witness of...

Revelation 8–11 can feel hard to square with the cruciform God revealed at Calvary. With the cross as our lens, the trumpets expose the consequences of vengeance, while the seventh trumpet reveals God’s way: faithful witness in the path of Jesus, until heaven declares, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah.” Download the Discussion Guide

Revelation keeps flipping our expectations: the one who holds history isn’t a Caesar but a slain Lamb, showing that cruciform love is the power that saves. In Revelation 6, the Lamb opens the seals and the four horsemen appear, not as God’s rage but as a revealing of what empire always produces: conquest, violence, exploitation and death. Then Revelation 7 pauses the chaos to show God sealing his...

Retired teacher, therapist and now poet, guest speaker Vilma Blenman shares aspects of her life story with the Grassroots community, interspersed with her poetry and reflections on how God has authored and continues to edit and direct her steps. Tune in and be encouraged for this special Sunday message.

In Week 4 of our journey through Revelation, we go deeper into John’s throne room vision and follow as he leads us to expect a King stronger and more impressive than any ruler on earth—only to flip the script with something utterly unexpected. We’re left asking what we actually want in a God, and what that reveals about us and the kind of world we’re trying to build. Download the Discussion Guide

Week 3 of Revelation takes us straight into the uncomfortable truth behind the seven churches: empire doesn’t only conquer with violence, it conquers with comfort. When life feels easy and our needs seem met, we drift, we soften, we stop resisting. Revelation pulls back the curtain on this illusion and reminds us that the Lamb is already reigning — and that the real danger for the church isn’t per...

In week two of our journey through the Book of Revelation, we wrestle with a hard but necessary truth: faithfulness does not guarantee comfort, safety or success. Drawing on Revelation, Daniel and the prophetic tradition, we discover that allegiance to Jesus often leads to suffering in a broken world. Yet Revelation offers a deeper hope—God is still reigning, the Lamb has already won and faithful...

Many of us were handed Revelation through fear: end-times charts, rapture movies, Left Behind and a general sense that this final book of the Bible is a blueprint for catastrophe. In this opening sermon of our new series Apocalypse Unveiled, Pastor Steve names this baggage honestly and then asks us to hit reset, suggesting Revelation is not primarily about escaping the world but, when properly rea...