Summit Drive Church

As we wrap up our SHAPE series with our focus on what it means to function as “The Whole Church,” we are ending by noticing how the gospel of Jesus Christ provides a “new creation reality” where men and women serve God together. We’ll look at Acts 2 and then move to see how Paul recognizes the significant contribution of women and men together in Romans 16.

As we have been talking about using our spiritual gifts and abilities through our SHAPE series, it raises the important question: What does the Bible really teach on women and leadership in the church? This has been highly contested in recent years, and part of that stems from the meaning and application of Paul’s instructions to Timothy in 1 Timothy 2:11-15. In this message, we’ll look at the pas...

FOCUS Club stands for Fellowship Of College and University Students. It is the local chapter of International Student Ministries Canada (ISMC), a Canadian-wide ministry to International Students studying in Canada.

This week, we finish our SHAPE series by exploring our experience—the God-given resume each of us has for God's kingdom work. Pastor Ricky will walk us through discerning our 'God things,' pain, and limitations and how they can help us find our calling.

This week, Pastor Ricky explores 'Personality' with us—those default modes of operation we all have based on our biology, experience, and environment. He encourages us to be good stewards of ourselves by learning our personality so we know where to work with and against it.

In our study this week, we will look at Jesus’ parable of the talents in Matthew 25; taking a deep dive into what God expects us to do with all our God-given abilities. We’ll see the real warning of burying what we’ve been entrusted and the encouragement and motives to love God by giving him our best.

This week, Pastor Ricky explores what it means to have a wholehearted life—ministering alongside Jesus with our heart in it. We'll be invited to properly learn to listen to our hearts—and what that really means for Christians.

This week, Pastor Dave and Pastor Ricky explore how we can live our most purposeful and powerful life when we know and operate in our Spiritual Gifts. They give us a short survey of the gifts and some clues as to how we might know we have them.

This SHAPE series is a chance to consider, or reconsider, what God has made you for; to get back in touch with his good purposes – and the ways he’s gifted and called you to join him. Today, we’ll see the big picture of what it means to be fully human, fully alive to God and his purposes.

Today, we look at what it means to “start,” or to “start, once again,” in our lives of following Jesus. We look at what the gospel is – a message that requires a response – and we look at what it means to respond rightly to the good news.

It’s all too easy to lose our wonder, but “wonderful” is still the right word for what we celebrate at Christmas. When we see with fresh eyes the beauty and truth of what God has done, how he has come to us, and for us, we can sing again “…and wonders of his love.” This Christmas Eve, we’ll look at how to regain our wonder and give ourselves wholly back to God in worship.

Advent calls us to anticipate Jesus’ return and to give ourselves wholly to the work Jesus has called us to in the meantime. In this message, we’ll look at how, like John the Baptist, we are still called to help prepare the way for Jesus’ coming. Like John, our lives are to “point” to Jesus, in deep humility, being clear on who we are, and filled with Joy.

This week we continue our advent series, ‘With Us While We Wait,’ we look at how this time of waiting is to be spent: preparing and investing ourselves in others, all in anticipation of Jesus’ return.

“Advent is not for the faint of heart,” writes Fleming Rutledge. And she’s right. Advent is not just “pre-Christmas” but is a call for us to look at the very reasons why we need Christmas in the first place, and to set our hearts longing for Jesus to return. In our series 'With Us While We Wait,' we are exploring how Advent calls us to watch, wait, witness and wonder. This week, we start b...

In our final message in our 'Come and See' series, we’ll look at the most important question – one that Jesus puts to Peter in John 21: “Do you love me?” What does it really mean to love Jesus? We’ll explore that in more depth.

What is faith? Though the question might get answered in a variety of ways, John 20 and Jesus’ encounter with Mary on the day of his resurrection tell us some key parts of it. We’ll see that Christian faith is impossible (without God), is reasonable, and is a work of God’s grace.

The question of Pilate to Jesus in John 18 continues to echo through history and still presses on us today: “What is truth?” In this message, we’ll explore Jesus’ claim to “testify to the truth” and dive deeper into what it means to align ourselves with Jesus, to listen to his voice.

This week, Pastor Ben speaks on how, even as Jesus is being arrested, Jesus is in charge of the whole situation. As the One in charge of everything, he uses his power and authority for the benefit of others. He shows us that we can trust him in each of our lives, no matter what chaos is happening around us.

Grieving – and facing our own death – is a fact of life. But what do with do with that? Where is God in it all? In John 11, we find this encounter with Jesus and three people that he loves – Martha, Mary, and their brother, Lazarus. In this scene, we find out more of who Jesus is, where he is in our grieving, and what ultimate hope he holds out.

Human suffering is a very difficult yet prevalent element in each of our lives. This week in our 'Come and See' series, Pastor Gerald looks at how Jesus’ encounter with a man who was born blind helps inform our response to suffering – our own, and that of others.

This week in our 'Come and See' series, Pastor Ricky explores the exclusive and offensive claims of Christian uniqueness, and encourages us to hold the exclusive claims and the kind character of Jesus together.

Some of us are “fixers.” We want to put things back in order. When we look at the world, we wonder: what’s the solution to that? Over the past weeks, we’ve looked at some of the deepest needs of our world and of our own hearts. Here in John 5, we’ll discover how Jesus addresses it. We’ll see that our problem runs deeper than we imagine, the solution is not what we often think, is better than we im...

This week, Pastor Ricky explores Jesus' interaction with the Samaritan woman, and the wisdom of outsiders. We will get a perspective on what is wrong with the world—not 'those people' you disagree with, but the way we fill our thirst with things other than God and the lies we believe about Him.

This week, Pastor Ricky explores how we change the world through Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus. We're invited to be born again and again and again, accept the mystery of a God we can't control or understand, and follow Jesus into His self-sacrificial way of transforming the world.

Jesus’ first “sign” of turning water into wine at a wedding feast is not a party trick meant to impress, but a signal of what he has ultimately come to do – to set us laughing with joy at his Wedding Feast; to bring about the new creation and life eternal.