Grassroots Church | Thunder Bay, Ontario

Steve shares with us what it means to have a God who enters into the human condition, experiencing the upsets of life's disappointments, frustrations and despair through the Gospel of Matthew's account of Jesus' first few years of life. Matthew shows us how in spite of this, God is able to accomplish his redemptive purposes.

Rich shares his story about learning to understand God's grace, how little he deserves it, and how he's let his unearned privilege get in the way of him following Jesus well.

A reading of Romans 12-16 and as well as the entire book of Philippians.

In our fourth of five sermons on relationship and the letter to the Phillipians, we explore Jesus-shaped conflict. If Christians are called to perpetual acts of reconciliation, what can we learn from the cross about keeping hearts soft when it's easy to be hardened by strife?

In this third of five sermons in Paul's letter to the Philippians, we are continuing to connect Jesus's love with our everyday relationships. Jesus's humility shows us how being vulnerable in relationships is the key to real connection.

In this second of five sermons on relationships, we turn to Philippians 1:12-30 and Paul's teaching on Christian suffering. We look specifically at the suffering related to loneliness and ask how as Christians we can bear our loneliness humbly and as servants.

In this first of five sermons on the practicalities of love in relationships, we open to Philippians and introduce ourselves to Paul, Timothy, Epaphroditus, and the first Christian community in Philippi.  All along we are looking for how Paul took Jesus's vision of love and applied it for his first followers, asking "Now what?" to Jesus's teaching on self-denial, cross-bearing, and self-humbling o...

In this final sermon of four on Jesus's vision of love, we look at the entangling of un-forgiveness and self-righteousness. Peter asks: how many times should I forgive? And Jesus opens up a view on love and reconciliation that would change everything.

As we continue to rescue the word "love" and put it into a Christian framework, this third sermon takes us into Jesus' teaching about lowliness, humility and being willing to be a servant of all. Love, in Jesus' view, is purified from any pattern of self-exaltation.

Weekly teachings from a community seeking to shape bright disciples, restore faith and cover the earth with the selfless love of Jesus.

Love is a powerful word we throw around daringly. We tend to think it describes a feeling or sensation but in the Christian life, love is the heartbeat of a life of sacrifice and a lifelong training of our will. This sermon opens up a season of reflection at Grassroots on Christian love. We begin simply by looking and listening to the love of the Master as He moves away from patterns of self-prote...

Our Christian life works only if we are pursuing Jesus and tending to the transformation of our hearts. Opening up the Parable of the Sower for Jesus' teaching on the human heart, this stand alone sermon invites us to think about our role in keeping our hearts open to God's abundant, extravagant grace.

All followers of Jesus are called to a lifelong consuming pursuit of knowing Jesus our Lord. This stand alone message takes a look at Paul's passionate pursuit of knowing Jesus, which Paul speaks about in Philippians 2-3, how holding on to the Word of Life shapes us into bright disciples.

Bonita Ledua of Northwind Family Ministries provides an update on the work of her ministry and shares a timely message on hope, gleaning a powerful lesson from the story of Moses and the Israelites at the river Marah, where they stopped to drink water but found they could not because it was bitter.

Visiting Pastor Ken Funk shares some insights on the simple truths that the unnamed centurion in Matthew 8 understood and that can serve as helpful reminders in our own faith journeys - regardless of how far along we've come.

Stories, heart connection and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Weekly teachings from a community seeking to shape bright disciples, restore faith and cover the earth with the selfless love of Jesus.

Christians often put too much focus on forgiveness in "our" gospel, while simultaneously not putting enough focus on forgiveness in "our" gospel. Distinguishing self-focused, individualistic forgiveness models from Jesus' relational/transactional model can be challenging, but doing so is essential in order to express and live out authentic, biblical reconciliation.

This week Steven continues teaching on the constructs of God - presenting the Christian worldview's response to the challenge of comprehending the incomprehensible: Jesus. In John 14 Jesus tells us that if we've seen Him, we've seen the Father. Thus, we can determine a constructive construct of God through what the gospels reveal to us about Jesus.

We all have an image of God in our head - and none of us get it right. It's a reality we can't escape when trying to use finite language and ideas to describe the infinite. However, there are a few particularly bad constructs that yield destructive results.

As Christians, we have a history of idolizing rightness at the expense of actually following Jesus and the mission he laid out for us.

Phil shares an encouragement for us not to hide behind our doubts and misconceptions. Rather than stay in the comfort of our fishing boat, we can claim the hope that Jesus gave us - and be willing to share it.

This week, we read again the resurrection story and see how most of Jesus’s disciples lost hope in Jesus after he died. Alone among the disciples, only Mary Magdalene decided to face her pain, and she found a basis for hope stronger than death. In this second instalment on exploring God’s goodness, we explore the resurrecting power of grief and its pathway to healing from life’s sufferings.

In the first of our two sermons on God’s goodness, we hear the story of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem. Riding in on a donkey, Jesus faces down the question of God’s goodness once and for all. In fulfillment of many Psalms, we see Jesus understanding his own final confrontation with death as David’s unstoppable Son rescuing us from a life lost in questioning God’s goodness.