Summit Drive Church

The Lord’s Prayer is a great gift of Jesus to all his followers that enables us to step inside Jesus’ own way of connecting with God the Father. As we begin our new series, “Our Father: The Necessity and Wonder of Prayer,” we’ll see how this prayer is a gift and we’ll look at the question of our motives for prayer.

In his prayer for us, Jesus emphasizes how the way we live as a community reveals the truth of the Gospel. We’ll explore the importance of unity as we participate together in God’s mission.

Why do we gather on Sunday mornings? In this message, we’ll explore some of our big reasons for why we gather in the first place and why our church services are structured in the way that they are. We’ll talk about what it means to be a community that gathers around Jesus.

As followers of Jesus, we are apprenticing our lives to him – adopting his overall way of life. And, that way values and embraces community, all the way down to the most intimate level of friendship. In this message, we’ll see how Jesus makes us his friends and what he means by friendship. We’ll then get practical about how to be friends like Jesus, and friends for him too – to bear fruit that wil...

Jesus has given us to each other. It is his preferred method for our growth that we grow through deep relationships with one another. If you want to be like Jesus, you need to be around people who are like Jesus.

We, as a local church, are not like a family, we are family. We are God’s Home. Which, like any home, can be complicated, messy, but beautiful all at once. Today, we’ll look at Mark 3 and Mark 10 in particular to see how Jesus is making us into a family around himself, and how we can lean into that form of life together, even when it’s scary.

Modern life is consumed by anxiety about many things. Jesus tells us few are necessary, indeed only one. What is that one thing? How will it help us with all this stress?

We are gathering to celebrate that God has truly come to be “with us” in the birth of Jesus. And, like the Magi we read of in Matthew 2:1-12, when we posture ourselves before the one born as “King of the Jews,” we will bow our knees in adoration, and bring our best gifts. Because, ultimately, we are given the greatest gift of all; the very presence of God, and promise of never-ending love. Special...

If Jesus is King, Herod is not. More to the point: if Jesus is King, I am not . Matthew presents Jesus as the True King, and his rule is a claim to spans all of creation, including my own heart. We’ll explore what it would look like for us to move from “disturbed” by Jesus’ kingship, to “overjoyed,” as the Magi are when they encounter Jesus.

This week, we will hear from our children as they tell the Christmas story by putting on a play ‘Our Beautiful Christmas Tree.’ This play is about a family that tells the Christmas story as they put ornaments on their Christmas tree, reminding us that Christmas is about Jesus coming for you and me.

The story of Jesus’ coming, as explored from Joseph’s experience, shows us what it means to live with faith "in the dark," and faith that is enacted. We see how God asks Joseph to take on a very specific job–one that will lead to misunderstanding and criticism. And we see the faithfulness of Joseph in response, a portrait for us of what it looks like to give our "yes" to God in difficult situation...

Expectations often breed disappointments, even in faith. This week, we will learn from Mary about letting the story of God recorded in the Scriptures shape our expectations of God.

The phrase “God’s Judgment” probably doesn’t have a very positive vibe in most people’s minds, but, in this message, we’ll see how God’s just judgment is ultimately very good news. Believing in God’s final judgment enables us to pursue justice without resorting to violence and assures us that, as we join God’s mission, what we do in life really matters. And that is good news.

We all wonder at some point: Why doesn’t God do something about the evil and injustice of the world? The answer that the Bible gives us is: He has. God gives us, not a philosophical answer, but himself. These week, we will look at the trial of Jesus before Pilate in John 18:28-19:7, and the meaning of the cross.

This week, we will explore how the Sabbath is a command given to promote justice by keeping us from being slaves. We'll also see how Sabbath keeping can keep us from enslaving ourselves anew to the good things we think we should be doing.

In this message, our BCBA Executive Minister, Dave Mohr, reminds us that a life with God is a life of sacrifice, a living one! Because of God’s mercy, we are transformed and now participate in his ministry of mercy in the world.

As we explore God’s call on his people to “do justly,” we inevitably bump up against the question of the relationship between God’s authority and human ‘authorities’, that is, the political realm. We will be exploring the relationship that Christians are to have with the state and discern what it looks like to pursue justice in reference to the public sphere.

There is a tight, never-ending connection in the Bible between the true worship of the Living God and true justice. As we look at the prophet Amos, and then the work of Jesus, we’ll see how all injustice is ultimately about worship—about loving something other than God. We’ll then see how all true worship must be accompanied by actions of justice in the real world.

Our fragmented lives can find holistic flourishing when we are wholly devoted to a holy God. This is the message of the book of Leviticus, which calls us to be holy as God is holy—a holiness that is being distinct, pure, and just.

The Bible is not an economics textbook – for which we are truly grateful. But God has given us some key ideas that relate to how we connect questions about justice and the economy. We often carry with us several unexamined assumptions about “how the world works,” but we don’t often hold those up to the light of God’s revelation in Scripture. This week, we’ll dive into three major assumptions, and...

Jesus begins his public ministry by citing from the prophet Isaiah and standing squarely within the prophetic tradition of enacting God’s justice. But what is justice really all about? Here, in Luke 4, we see how Jesus' ministry is “good news to the poor” in the spiritual and physical and social sense.

To love God means, among other things, loving what God loves, and God loves the world he made. So “Jesus is coming – plant a tree!” That might sound like a bit of a paradox, but this essay title gets to an important part of Christian faith: the reality that God calls humans, as his “image,” to care for this good world, even as we anticipate God’s coming future. In this message, we’ll explore those...

This week, we explore the inextricable connection between justice and the Image of God. We will see that the image of God gives all people an inherent, indelible and humbling dignity. But, it also gives us a responsibility to work for flourishing of each other and creation.

Jesus begins his public ministry by citing from the prophet Isaiah and standing squarely within the prophetic tradition of enacting God’s justice. But what is justice really all about? Here, in Luke 4, we see how Jesus' ministry is “good news to the poor” in the spiritual and physical and social sense.

In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus tells us a surprising story about what it means to be a true neighbour and about who has the potential to show neighbourly love.