The Church at Southpoint

10/26/2025

No service at SunnySide today. Join us for the ALL OUT service at Grandview Church at 4 pm.

02/12/2025

Blog Feb 11 2025: Following Love's Lead

Luke 5: 1-11

I wonder what’s going through Peter’s mind, in the space between Jesus’s words of comfort and invitation, and them bringing in the boats deep-laden with fish and landing again on shore, where Peter leaves everything to follow this rabbi?

Is the security of Jesus’s love breaking through Peter’s defences, the walls of his insecurities? I wonder if, in this moment, Peter is letting go of the desire to feel ‘put together’ before this rabbi, trusting that Jesus truly is inviting Peter to take his part in what Jesus is doing, the way of love Jesus is unfolding. Even if Peter doesn’t know exactly what’s going to happen.

This moment, this shift, it reminded me of what I’ve been reading lately from a book by a former Guardian journalist, Oliver Burkeman...

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I wonder what’s going through Peter’s mind, in the space between Jesus’s words of comfort and invitation, and them bringing in the boats deep-laden with fish and landing again on shore, where Peter leaves everything to follow this rabbi?

02/12/2025

Blog Feb 4, 2025: What does love look like, when Jesus goes home to Nazareth? In Luke 4:14-21, Jesus attends synagogue and reads the Isaiah 61 prophecy proclaiming good news for the poor, freedom for prisoners, sight for the blind, freedom for the oppressed and the year of the LORD’s favour, which was the jubilee, the year when all debts were to be forgiven and just equilibrium in society would be re-set. Jesus tells his neighbours, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

Mic drop.

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In Luke 4:14-21, Jesus attends synagogue and reads the Isaiah 61 prophecy proclaiming good news for the poor, freedom for prisoners, sight for the blind, freedom for the oppressed and the year of the LORD’s favour, which was the jubilee, the year when all debts were to be forgiven and just e...

01/29/2025

Blog Jan 28, 2025: Love Draws Near: Widening the Table. This past Sunday, we widened our table by making snack packs for people in our community who are living without a fixed home. Thank you so much for the incredible generosity of everyone who showed up. The tables were heavily laden with food, and everyone was busy filling up the bags and writing notes to go inside. There was so much food we ran out of bags! Madison and some of our youth then delivered the bags to the White Rock Warming Centre....

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“Trapeza, the Greek word for Table, is linked to hospitality and shared meals. Jesus spent time with people around tables so they would feel seen and loved by God. At Southpoint, we want people to feel seen and loved by God too. We want people to know they belong at God’s table… Regularly, we ...

01/15/2025

Blog 14 Jan 2025: "What Does Love Look Like, Now?" This is a question I asked myself a lot while parenting. When your kids are younger, loving them looks like doing things for them—brushing their teeth, picking out their clothes, and later, packing them lunches… but then as they grow, love looks like the opposite—not doing those very things so they learn to do them for themselves...

This is a question I asked myself a lot while parenting. When your kids are younger, loving them looks like doing things for them—brushing their teeth, picking out their clothes, and later, packing them lunches… but then as they grow, love looks like the opposite—not doing those very things so...

01/08/2025

Blog 7 Jan 2025: Could the Bible be a bit like a big, beautiful Christmas ornament — like the ones many of us will likely be taking down from our trees sometime this week? I know, it’s a funny question.

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Could the Bible be a bit like a big, beautiful Christmas ornament — like the ones many of us will likely be taking down from our trees sometime this week? I know, it’s a funny question.

12/30/2024

Blog 24 Dec, 2024: Merry Christmas!

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12/30/2024

Blog 17 Dec, 2024: We lived in a small town in rural Kansas for four years, right smack in the middle of tornado alley. Whenever a tornado warning came on, we’d gather up the basics: radio, flashlight, dogs, kids, water and snacks, pillow, stuffed animals, and yes, a quilt or a blanket.

For the past two Sundays, we’ve been gathering up the basics. Pieces of homespun wisdom to help resource and comfort us as we enter into the unknown of what is predicted to be a stormy new year. As we wait in the dark basement of Advent...
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“For true evangelical faith… cannot lay dormant: But manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love: It… clothes the naked, feeds the hungry, consoles the afflicted, shelters the miserable, aids and consoles all the oppressed, returns good for evil, serves those that injure it, pray...

12/30/2024

Blog, Dec 10 2024: In our scripture passage this week, Ruth, a recent widow, rejects the advice of her mother-in-law, Naomi. Instead of aligning herself to a new husband to find safety and security within a patriarchal landscape, Ruth instead aligns herself with Naomi, saying, “Where you go, I will go; where you stay, I will stay.” Ruth chooses power with Naomi, stepping into a partnership of shared resilience and interdependency, recognizing the safety found in mutual relationships.

Together, they navigate their vulnerability...
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In our scripture passage this week, Ruth, a recent widow, rejects the advice of her mother-in-law, Naomi. Instead of aligning herself to a new husband to find safety and security within a patriarchal landscape, Ruth instead aligns herself with Naomi, saying, “Where you go, I will go; where you st...

12/06/2024

Blog 3 Dec 2024: This Advent we journey with the metaphor of quilts. Quilts were traditionally made from leftover fabric pieces that seemed unimportant on their own but came together to form a beautiful, cohesive pattern.

Isaiah 43:1-7 exemplifies this. The passage...

This Advent we journey with the metaphor of quilts. Quilts were traditionally made from leftover fabric pieces that seemed unimportant on their own but came together to form a beautiful, cohesive pattern.

11/27/2024

Blog 26 Nov 2024: Christ’s birth was both an ending and a beginning for Mary and Joseph, as well as Elizabeth, the shepherds, and the magi. King Herod tried to bring this new beginning to an end, but God protected it. Despite all odds, hope lived within the shadow of the Empire and new life unfurled. In Advent, we celebrate Mary’s hope in a God who brings new life.

Every ending is the point of a new beginning. The church calendar has come to an end amidst a fragmented and conflicted world in crisis. Yet this ending is also a beginning. New life will unfurl amidst the challenges we face.

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Christ’s birth was both an ending and a beginning for Mary and Joseph, as well as Elizabeth, the shepherds, and the magi. King Herod tried to bring this new beginning to an end, but God protected it. Despite all odds, hope lived within the shadow of the Empire and new life unfurled. In Advent, we ...