Southside@Main | Sunday Morning Services

Sunday, June 16, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Psalm 102.26-27 Here is a profound idea - that God does not ever change. So the One presented in the Old Testament and New Testament is still as described. What does that mean for us? We have some theological questions and some practical questions about this. Is the Old Testament God really still the same? Today there is a great rejection of that God as...

June 9, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 14.26 A recent author has titled his book The Forgotten God, referring to the Holy Spirit. We cannot get very far on the path of knowing God if we don't develop our balcony and traveler knowledge of the Holy Spirit. This Sunday we will focus on the third person of the Trinity.

June 2, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 Corinthians 15.47 Charles Wesley wonders "Tis mystery all! The Immortal Dies" in his hymn. As we gaze upon the Person of God and grasp that He is enormously beyond understanding or comparing but that He has indeed come close to His creation and creations so that the corrupting infection can be excised. Thus the incarnation is the most amazing of all theological...

May 26, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Isaiah 40.18 This chapter is a powerful expression of the incomparable Being that God is. We are left agreeing that God may not be compared, or explained by any human mind or attempt. Our failure is that we try to make a comparison or an image and thus insult our Creator. Rather we should find ourselves gazing with awe on His glorious works.

May 19, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 17.3; Jeremiah 9.23-24 Knowing God involves a two way relationship (or actually four plus ways - answer that riddle!) We will focus this weekend on the reality that God knows us. What does that mean for us? What does He think of us? What does He do with what He knows? What do we want Him to know, what would we rather He didn't know? Let's explore that.

May 12, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Daniel 11.32 On Mother's Day our thoughts are drawn to matters of the family. How many are the stories of those who look back upon the influence of moms who have raised, supported, prayed for and encouraged them over the distance of a lifetime. The Old Testament gives us the caricature of a young man who would be the envy of any prayerful, faithful mom. This youn...

May 5 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Proverbs 1:1-7 For many of us formal education consisted of classes, exams and required reading. We put aside reading for leisure in favour of the hundreds of pages that needed to be mastered in keeping with the calendar. We avoided our interest being captured by subjects and topics of interest that were calling to us like Odysseus' sirens because they would detrac...

April 28, 2019, Speaker - Ian Campbell Knowing God This Sunday we commence a new study series called "Knowing God," based on the J.I. Packer book with the same title. We will track with the chapters and also encourage you to acquire the book and use the study questions personally or with some friends as weekly follow up discussions. Packer begins the book with the distinction between those on the...

April 21 2019, Speaker - Ian Campbell Luke 24.5 Two angels at the tomb of Jesus on Resurrection Sunday asked a great question of the women "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?" It seems we could meditate on that angelic question with powerful insights yielded. How much of our thinking and behaviour is with a graveyard rather than empty tomb perspective?

Speaker: Ian Campbell Acts 4:32-37 "What's yours is ours and what's mine is my own!" This variation on the saying "What's yours is mine and what's mine is yours" is perhaps more telling that we'd like to admit. Ask parents of youngsters about sharing toys and about how well that works out. Or take a field trip upstairs to the Nursery on Sunday morning to get a live view of little humans sharing. B...

Speaker: Ian Campbell Responsive Acts 8.26-40 A preacher was in an elevator and had his Bible in his hand. A person joined him in the lift and, noticing the Bible in his hand, asked "Is that a Bible?" "Yes", said the preacher, "have you read it?" "Of course," said the new friend. "What's your favourite part?" pressed the preacher. After some embarrassed hesitation the preacher pushed harder with "...

Speaker: Ian Campbell Acts 6:1-7 In the church there are often two groups of leaders - elders and deacons. Acts 6 is the story of how a group of leaders we call deacons originated. The original tells us how church organization grows and develops and is a perfect model for starts and initiatives for the church through the centuries. Let's see how it applies at Southside@Main

March 24, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Acts 6:1-7 In the church there are often two groups of leaders - elders and deacons. Acts 6 is the story of how a group of leaders we call deacons originated. The original tells us how church organization grows and develops and is a perfect model for starts and initiatives for the church through the centuries. Let's see how it applies at Southside@Main

March 17, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Acts 2.42-47 The early followers of Jesus took very seriously the prayer of Jesus that we would be "one." He prayed that this would be so in order that the world would believe. Indeed the unity of the Jerusalem believers had a great impact on their neighbours. They were described as having favour with all the people. Wouldn't this be a great goal for us as we s...

March 13, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell We are joining over 100,000 individuals and 1000s of churches around the world to spend Lent generously. What if rather than only giving something up for Lent we went all out and added some generosity and gave out kindness? Every day we will have a thought supplied by e-mail and every Sunday we will keep step with a study about some characteristics of the Acts...

Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.9 Canada has prided itself in being a peacekeeping people. While we may know what peacekeeping is do we know what peacemaking is? Are they the same thing? How can peace be made? And why would this qualify us to be children of God? Let's add this one to our set of extraordinary declarations Jesus made about the characteristics of life in His Kingdom!

February 17, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.8 How does something become pure? Usually by some kind of testing. All impurities, all foreign substances have been excised. How is my heart in this regard? Is there anything in there that needs to be removed? Tough question!

February 10, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.6 Desires. Humans have a set of them. They are often only satisfied temporarily. We are hungry and thirsty, we eat and drink and are satisfied only to become hungry and thirsty again. When Jesus says there is a kind of hunger and thirst for righteousness and that those who have those desires will be satisfied we wonder if the satisfaction is also t...

February 3, 2019 Speaker: Mike Burns Matthew 5.7 As a young Christian, I remember learning the distinction between grace and mercy. The quote, which is still in popular use today, goes like this: Grace is when God gives us what we don’t deserve and mercy is when God doesn’t give us what we do deserve. While this is still a helpful notion, I have come to learn that both grace and mercy are so much...

January 27, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Through the season of Epiphany we are going to visit the teaching of Jesus called the Beatitudes. These eight "rights and responsibilities" have been called the constitution of the Kingdom of God. We have been talking about the Christian hope as the life after the life after death and we'll see how these principles are seated in the current dynamics of the Ch...

January 20, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Through the season of Epiphany we are going to visit the teaching of Jesus called the Beatitudes. These eight "rights and responsibilities" have been called the constitution of the Kingdom of God. We have been talking about the Christian hope as the life after the life after death and we'll see how these principles are seated in the current dynamics of the Ch...

January 13, 2019 Speaker - Ian Campbell Postcards from the Future Through the season of Epiphany we are going to visit the teaching of Jesus called the Beatitudes. These eight "rights and responsibilities" have been called the constitution of the Kingdom of God. We have been talking about the Christian hope as the life after the life after death and we'll see how these principles are seated in the...

January 6, 2019 Speaker: Ian Campbell Through the season of Epiphany we are going to visit the teaching of Jesus called the Beatitudes. These eight "rights and responsibilities" have been called the constitution of the Kingdom of God. We have been talking about the Christian hope as the life after the life after death and we'll see how these principles are seated in the current dynamics of the Chr...

Speaker: Ian Campbell Romans 8.18-27 In our series "a Magic Deeper Still" we saw that the condition of "corruption" is a very important idea for us to grasp in trying to answer the "why" questions about Jesus' life, death and resurrection. Now as we peer into the future and ask questions about heaven we need to think about earth as we think about heaven - the two dance partners. While heaven is th...

December 2, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 14 Where is Heaven and how do you get there? These are ordinary questions, but with extraordinary answers. Jesus' friends had the very same questions and His answers to them were packed with meaning. This Sunday we'll chat about the questions as well as we build a few spaceships in teams of adults and children together - we may be surprised by the answer...