Southside Community Church - Milton

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 temporary and we would be hungry and thirsty again. Or when he says they will be satisfied is it for longer? Makes us wonder, doesn't he?

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 bigger than any single sentence definition. As we look at the beatitude of blessed are the merciful are we simply to understand this as the withholding of power or consequence, or is God calling us to something more? What does it mean to be merciful? Join us Sunday as we continue to explore the beautiful message of the beatitudes.

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 Christian life in the world and how they will be seated in the new creation. Along the way we will explore theories on the unfolding of the future events of our world. Blessed are the Gentle Matthew 5.5 Traditionally this verse is translated "meek." How interesting that Moses was said to be the "meekest" person on earth. What is that quality? And how would that characteristic qualify someone to inherit the earth? How does a person become meek and how is the quality of meekness manifest in behaviour? Thoughts?

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 Christian life in the world and how they will be seated in the new creation. Along the way we will explore theories on the unfolding of the future events of our world. The Mourners Matthew 5.4 Of all the names and titles given to God in the Scriptures perhaps the most heartwarming is in 2 Corinthians 1.3 where the apostle calls Him the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. Comfort is a grand theme in the Old and New Testaments and is featured in the second beatitude: Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Let's consider how we are comforted and why in this life and the next.

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 current dynamics of the Christin life in the world and how they will be seated in the new creation. Along the way we will explore theories on the unfolding of the future events of our world. Blessed are the poor.. Matthew 5.3 In what ways could this statement possibly be true? Do we have the right definition of terms? Let's begin our study by pressing in on that question and then see how the future hope in the new heaven and earth may be informed by this aspect of the new community.

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 Christin life in the world and how they will be seated in the new creation. Along the way we will explore theories on the unfolding of the future events of our world. Blessed are the poor.. Matthew 5.3 In what ways could this statement possibly be true? Do we have the right definition of terms? Let's begin our study by pressing in on that question and then see how the future hope in the new heaven and earth may be informed by this aspect of the new community.

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 the guest house for us when we fall asleep what is the on-going state and hope for earth?

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 answers that emerge!

November 25, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell "A magic deeper still..” In a moment that we might call an epiphany for the characters Susan and Lucy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Aslan, the Christ character, tells the children that although the Witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still that she didn’t know because her knowledge only went back to the beginning of time. And then the lion says that he feels like roaring and dashes off with the children for a grand romp through Narnia full of celebration, joy and recklessness! As we have listened to Jesus’ teachings - his parables - we have noticed that he subtly and overtly has made us realize that his coming was not only for the renovation of religion, although that seemed to be the purpose of many of his stories. He came to practice “the magic deeper still!” In this short teaching series we will explore that magic. And may we experience an epiphany like Susan and Lucy, and his first time followers and friends. And may there be a grand romp fo

Sunday November 18, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell 1 Corinthians 15 Having asked "Why did God become mortal?" and "why did Jesus have to die?" the next question we are led to is "why did Jesus have to rise from the dead?" How did that factor into the decisions made in heaven's back room? Would sin and death not have been adequately dealt with by the incarnation and death of Jesus as we now understand some more of the magic deeper still? What was added by the resurrection?

November 11, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell "A magic deeper still..” In a moment that we might call an epiphany for the characters Susan and Lucy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Aslan, the Christ character, tells the children that although the Witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still that she didn’t know because her knowledge only went back to the beginning of time. And then the lion says that he feels like roaring and dashes off with the children for a grand romp through Narnia full of celebration, joy and recklessness! As we have listened to Jesus’ teachings - his parables - we have noticed that he subtly and overtly has made us realize that his coming was not only for the renovation of religion, although that seemed to be the purpose of many of his stories. He came to practice “the magic deeper still!” In this short teaching series we will explore that magic. And may we experience an epiphany like Susan and Lucy, and his first time followers and friends. And may there be a grand romp fo

November 4, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell In a moment that we might call an epiphany for the characters Susan and Lucy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Aslan, the Christ character, tells the children that although the Witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still that she didn’t know because her knowledge only went back to the beginning of time. And then the lion says that he feels like roaring and dashes off with the children for a grand romp through Narnia full of celebration, joy and recklessness! As we have listened to Jesus’ teachings - his parables - we have noticed that he subtly and overtly has made us realize that his coming was not only for the renovation of religion, although that seemed to be the purpose of many of his stories. He came to practice “the magic deeper still!” In this short teaching series we will explore that magic. And may we experience an epiphany like Susan and Lucy, and his first time followers and friends. And may there be a grand romp for us all! Philippians 2.6

Speaker: Ian Campbell In a moment that we might call an epiphany for the characters Susan and Lucy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Aslan, the Christ character, tells the children that although the Witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still that she didn’t know because her knowledge only went back to the beginning of time. And then the lion says that he feels like roaring and dashes off with the children for a grand romp through Narnia full of celebration, joy and recklessness! As we have listened to Jesus’ teachings - his parables - we have noticed that he subtly and overtly has made us realize that his coming was not only for the renovation of religion, although that seemed to be the purpose of many of his stories. He came to practice “the magic deeper still!” In this short teaching series we will explore that magic. And may we experience an epiphany like Susan and Lucy, and his first time followers and friends. And may there be a grand romp for us all! Why did God have to become a mor

Luke 5:36-39 In this, our last, unique parable of Jesus we come to the question of his purpose in the parables as retold by Luke as well as our previous work on the “I Am..” statements that John retold us. Do we have enough gathered memory now to ask about Jesus’ fundamental purpose in his life? Was it the renovation of religion with the corrections about what a religious life is really like from the “I am..” accounts as well as the corrections about what the Father is really like from the stories? And is it the new wine needing new wineskins that is the final key to the life of Jesus? Are we done here in the Gospels with our marching orders having to do with the renewal of religion? Or is there more? Much more?

October 14, 2018 Speaker: Bryan O'Gorman Luke 19. 11-27 Luke shares Jesus story of the Ten Minas which is a companion story to that of the Ten Talents shared in Matthew 25.14-30. Here Jesus shows us the Father’s loving heart, the misunderstanding of people’s perceptions and the responsibility of believers as good stewards until he comes again. Should we see God’s love and justice as a call to action?

October 7, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell Luke 18.9-14 Luke gives us life lessons as he recounts stories that Jesus told. In this case he is particularly poignant. He presents two men who go to the temple to pray and Luke tells us that the reason for the story is to warn us against self-righteousness and a smug approach to religion. He comes again to his favourite story theme of humility. Should we have some kind of righteousness scan before we are allowed to board for worship?

September 30, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell Paradise Luke 16.19-31 Is the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man a parable or an actual account students have regularly asked? In the lineup of Jesus stories this one is complicated and veers into a topic that is difficult and one we'd rather avoid. But what is the point? What do we learn?

September 23, 2018 Speaker: Ian Campbell Is the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man a parable or an actual account students have regularly asked? In the lineup of Jesus stories this one is complicated and veers into a topic that is difficult and one we'd rather avoid. But what is the point? What do we learn?