Southside@Main | Sunday Morning Services

Sunday, January 15, 2023 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 15 The Apostle John is probably my favourite writer in Scripture. This passage is at the heart of his devotional content and discloses the secret of his Chrisian discipleship. The disciplines we want to explore over the next season of Southside's growth are steps we can take to dive deep into how we "abide in Christ."

Sunday, January 8, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Loving relationship takes time, and hurry simply doesn't have it. If we want to grow in our loving relationship with God and with others, we need the kind of time and attention that our current cultural moment is competing over every second for. The church in Milton is called to move at the speed of love while our community around us moves at the speed...

Sunday, December 18, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood During Advent we celebrate the first coming of King Jesus, but the Christian hope is the future coming of King Jesus. This Sunday we’ll explore how we live into the anticipation of Jesus’s arrival as the King who came and the King who is still to come.

Sunday, December 11, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Revelation 1.8 Jesus' existence did not begin at conception in Mary's womb although we often seem to assume that in our understanding of the Bible's teaching about God. Our teaching on Sunday will be on the subject of His pre-existence and what the transition to humanness entailed. Our minds are indeed finite and a spoiler alert should be noted here:...

Sunday, December 4, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Rev 1.8; 21.6 I am the Alpha and Omega - says God. When I first came across this I was confused as to why it was, what I presumed to be, the a and o of the alphabet! Then came wonderful studies in Greek when I realized that they were the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Now that we're clear, what does this mean?

Sunday, November 27, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Blessed are the Peacemakers

Sunday, November 20, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted.. This Sunday is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. We are joining in heart and spirit with sisters and brothers who are facing unimaginable levels of hardship because of their faith. As we are attentive to the universal nature of the church we must pray into our unity an...

Sunday, November 13, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.7 Blessed are the Merciful - for they will receive Mercy.. So many of the Beatitudes are reciprocal - they adhere to Jesus' teaching that we should do to others as we hope they will do to us. What a priceless aspect of Christian wisdom! What a practical lesson!

Sunday, October 23, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Matthew 5:5 - "Blessed are the meek"

Sunday, October 16, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5 A rather shocking indictment of evangelicalism is that we simply accessorize our lives with our faith rather than become actual disciples of Jesus. This Sunday we’ll ask if we have understood how terribly radical the message of Jesus is. He concludes his teaching with an invitation to follow Him.

Sunday, October 9, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 5.1-11 What does it mean to be “blessed?” Is it the same as “happy?” We’re beginning a teaching series this Sunday called “the makarioi” in which we’ll look at Jesus’ teaching on the Beatitudes and try to discover what it means to be the makarioi 🙂

Sunday, September 25, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Ephesians 4.6-13 The so-called APEPT or APEST gifts have been the topic of conversation in the recent Missional movement in the church. We’ll review them and consider how we understand the theology of Ephesians 4 and how we might view these 5 as the general “trades” as we are employed to build the church.

Sunday, September 18, 2022 Speaker: Mike Burns What happens when deceptive ideas move beyond the lie and begin to shape the narratives of our life? From personal narratives to cultural narratives, these are the stories we tell ourselves about us, our neighbours, and the world around us. For many, these often go unexplored and remain in the realm of the subconscious, which makes discerning the trut...

September 4, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell The root cause of our Anxiety Romans 1 is an explicit description of our separation form God, our embarking on a wild ride into the frontier of a wilderness in which we don’t belong. Let’s have a careful look at Paul’s claims here.

Sunday, August 28, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Proverbs 1:7 We open up the conversation about fearing the Lord. In the West, we have softened this language to mean only respect and reverence, but biblically it means far more than that. We will discover the freedom and peace found in fearing the Lord without minimizing what that fear means and ought to look like for 21st century westerners.

August 21, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 6:25-34 We will follow up last Sunday’s conversation about the two rival masters by seeking wisdom about living in the world of money and wealth as Jesus followers. Remember the rich young ruler who had everything right about his morality, but when challenged to sell everything and give to the poor? He couldn’t do it and therefore wouldn’t get into the...

Sunday, August 14, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood Matthew 6:19-24 The Christian struggle is a unique one in the respect that we both live in the world, and are subsequently inundated with the same amount of competition for our attention, desires, and treasures as everyone else in our communities, while at the same time we are called to serve Jesus and Jesus alone. This deadly mix leaves us as anxious,...

Sunday, August 7, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves, take up his cross, and follow me” We live in a culture that suggests meaning and purpose is not something to be found outside of ourselves, but within ourselves. Couple that with an attention economy that is always selling you something on the basis that there good life is achieved by fulfilling all...

July 31, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 John 2.15-17 Which one could be your undoing? As we explore our relationship with the world we would be wise to know where we are vulnerable to the world system. Then we can be present in and for the world as we posture ourselves to be against it.

July 24, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell John 17.15-19 Have you ever found yourself rationalizing a behaviour because “everyone else is doing it”? Perhaps it was downloading or photocopying something that was copyrighted. A pastor friend of mine endorsed making photocopies of a book saying “copyright just means copy it right”! We are invited to swim upstream as followers of the Way. It’s key to our pro...

July 17, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood 1 Peter 2:9-22 This Sunday Pastor Andrew is going to continue the conversation we started last week on The Flesh. We’ll focus on the topic of freedom; what is true freedom and how do we get there. There will be another time for Q&A at the end of the talk, so bring your thoughts, feelings, questions and ponderings.

July 10, 2022 Speaker: Andrew Wood John 8:34-36 Galatians 5:13-17 Andrew will introduce the idea of “The Flesh” and how that can work against us becoming a non-anxious presence.

Sunday, July 2, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 John 2.13-17 Luke 4 What is wrong with me? Ever arrive at that anxious question? More broadly, what is wrong with us? As we gaze at our world we are perplexed with the mess up we are. Why? In response to the anxiety we feel Biblical teaching and Christ-following practices are actually clear answers and solutions to both questions and frustrations.

Sunday, June 26, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 4.8-10 Does anyone still believe there's an actual Satan or Devil these days? Is the devil more a subject for jokes and even comedy shows on TV? What if we are totally wrong in dismissing the idea as an old story or myth? What if there is a devil? What might such a being be up to?

Sunday, June 12, 2022 Speaker: Ian Campbell Matthew 3.2; Mark 1.15; Luke 17.20-21 Today we begin a teaching series on the topic of "non-anxious presence." We're beginning by setting the stage for this way of being in the world by grounding ourselves in the Bible's teaching about the Kingdom of God. Is the Kingdom here? Or coming? Or both? Jesus said that the Kingdom was "among us." Presence is the...