Southside Community Church - Milton

Sunday, November 21 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Col 2.1-3 The Apostle Paul expresses his concern for believers who "have not seen his face" or literally "in the flesh." Does that pique our interest in these days of not having experienced church in person? The same concerns are for those with whom we are together in person or virtually. What are they?

Sunday, November 14, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Ephesians 2.19-22; 4.1-16 We are called into service as followers of Christ and thoroughly equipped to fulfill our responsibilities. As we seek to re-set church what can we unlearn and relearn in these times?

Sunday November 7, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell November 7th Philippians 2.19-30 Leadership has failed us in the past generation of church. We have been hurt and grieved by leadership failures and sense that we have wandered from the New Testament model of leading. Celebrity has been the downfall of many and is far from what we have been taught from early times. Timothy and Epaphroditus are models to be shadowed.

Sunday, October 31, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell The story of Esther has the fascinating aspect of the "unseen Hand" as we realize that while absent from the plot God is active yet unseen. How is this true in our lives and the events of history? Whether in the story of Joseph who remembers the treachery of his brothers as God having "meant it all for good" or the many Bible stories this is a huge Biblical understanding!

Sunday, October 24, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 2, 5 Haman and Esther are contrasted in how they each plan to attend a banquet. For Haman it was an “all about me” celebration; for Esther it was “all about my people.” What can we learn about the celebration events of our lives?

Sunday, October 17, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 7-8 Courage is a powerful engine and leads us to do things we might not have thought possible in our humanness. Esther is a great example of an ordinary person who realizes that she was positioned for her time to do something great. Can you see yourself in her story?

Sunday, October 10, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 7 When you have "skeletons in your closet" there's a dread that drifts along all the time. The fear that your past will catch up needs to be addressed by an understanding of confession, forgiveness and grace.

Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 3 The bible describes the human heart as potentially deceitful and desperately wicked. Haman is a case study in that condition. How does a person become so hateful and vindictive? Is there a darkness in our own hearts that we need to discern and allow truth and love to penetrate it?

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 8 Do you have friends and neighbours who are of the Jewish Faith? What relationship do we as Christians have with these friends? How do you think Israel has factored into world history and what is the future for Israel? Esther saved a nation from extinction!

Sunday, September 19, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 2 Mordecai challenged Esther to use her opportunity for God's plan and asked  "Who knows but that you have attained royalty for such a time as this" Why am I where I am, doing what I do as far as God is concerned? We'll talk about discerning our place in this world as having been fixed for God to use for His plans.

Sunday September 12, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 2.5-7 Early in the story of Esther we meet Mordecai - one of the two heroes in the story. He is the target of the villain's wrath and his life is in constant jeopardy. However the tables are turned in a nail biting drama.

Sunday, September 5, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 1 As we begin a new teaching series this week we will learn how Queen Esther realized that she found herself in a unique set of circumstances "for such a time as this." We'll have opportunity to meet the story's characters and the ways they relate to our time and circumstances.  Ahasuerus (Xerxes) was handed celebrity that he allowed to "go to his head" and he lived in luxury and fame. We will talk about having open eyes to understand that the splendour of success in life should be handled with a strong grain of salt and that allowing

Sunday, August 29, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 1.17-18 God’s gifts. James has a lovely set of expressions about God, the Father of Lights and how every good and perfect gifts comes from Him. He also understands that we are one of the gifts God gives to the world so that we can be an example of His gifts – His first fruits.

August 22, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.18 When we know what the “right thing” is we should be determined to actually do it. The Bible (and specifically James) is very clear on some things we know are the right things to do and so not to do those things is a sinful way of living quite apart from not doing the “wrong thing. The talk will be about identifying some right things and making a plan to do them.

Sunday, August 15, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.4-6 One of the right things that James instructs us to do is to pay fair wages and treat employees well. That's not only for those who actually employ others but about respecting the jobs that people do and honouring them. The talk will be about noticing those around us who do the jobs we need done but aren't our primary responsibility and having lives of gratitude towards them all.

August 8, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.11-12 We’re not to judge or speak against one another says James. What does he mean by that in practice? He says that we speak against the law by speaking against one another. And since God is the lawgiver he warns us against this. Let’s try to figure out what he means!

Sunday August 1, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.14-18 Prayer for the sick. James gives the only specific instructions in the Bible for this kind of prayer. He goes back to Elijah of the Old Testament as an example of the faith that healing prayer requires - but what is it about Elijah that we should learn?

Sunday, July 25, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.12-13 "your yes is to be yes and your no, no" says James. Am I known as a person whose word is good? It's a high compliment when someone can readily assess me that way!

Sunday, July 18, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.1-17 “What’s really going on here?” is a question we should ask in the middle of quarrels. James says that we should look inside and be honest about what’s really at the heart of the matter.

Sunday, July 11, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 3.1-13 Where did that come from? Ever say something and you find yourself asking that question? James supplies the answer.