South Abbotsford Church Podcast
Every week, we gather as South Abbotsford Church. Someone always brings a message from the Word and unpacks how it applies in our lives. These messages are always meaningful and authentic expressions of the journey we're all on to follow Jesus. We trust the Spirit of God will continue to speak through them to you.
Episodes
85 episodes
CARRY THE KINGDOM - Follow Jesus
Passage: Luke 5:1-11. We're exploring our purpose and calling as South Abbotsford Church. Today it's the invitation of Jesus to follow Him. Not as a technique but a living way that changes everything. Our shame, our inability, our hopes ...
CARRY THE KINGDOM - Gather & Scatter
Passage: Acts 2:46-47. What is the Church? What was it meant to be? We are challenged as we unpack some history of the Church through the early years and into our current place in history. How has God called us to be a gathering church? ...
CARRY THE KINGDOM - Carry The Living Presence
Passage: John 14. We've launched a series diving into all that it means to be people who carry the living presence of Jesus. What would this community look like? How would they impact the world around them? If Jesus really did impar...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - Before Abraham Was, I Am
Passage: John 8:58. When Jesus uses weird grammar, everyone listening had an association. They believed Jesus was claiming to be YAHWEH - the Great I AM. It's why they try to kill Him. So what does this really mean? And of course, as we'...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Resurrection
Passage: John 11:17-26. Why does Jesus claim to be the Resurrection and the Life to a grieving woman while her brother is dead in a tomb? What does this even mean? And most importantly, do you believe it? With a vulnerable gentleness, Ma...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Good Shepherd
Passage: John 10:11. If we're honest, most of us don't have a context for shepherding. So a big question would be, what did they hear when Jesus made this claim. Not just a shepherd, but THE good shepherd. Pastor Ajay breaks open the oft...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Way and the Truth and the Life
Passage: John 14:6. Jesus is making sweeping claims about Himself that don't allow us to consider Him merely a teacher or good rabbi. He is the way. He is the truth. He is the life. What does this mean if we believe it?
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Bread of Life
Passage: John 10:7-9. We all know the feeling of hunger. And our failure to find satisfaction in the things we do or buy. We are starving for something. Jesus claims not just to know where we can find this meaning and purpose, but claims...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Gate
Passage: John 6:35. Jesus is a gate? What?! Is this about exclusivity? What do the people listening to Jesus hear? What does He mean? Why is this a claim that provokes and challenges us to surrender ourselves to this good shepherd. With ...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the True Vine
Passage: John 15:1. Who is Jesus? When He makes these sweeping claims, what do people think? What do they hear? Most importantly, what is the invitation for us who believe this? Come connect and find life in the true vine, pruned by the ...
THE CLAIMS OF JESUS - I Am the Light of the World
Passage: John 8:12. A healer. A good teacher. The light of the world. Wow, does this ever change things. What does it mean that Jesus is the light? Why would He claim this? What does it mean that He calls us the light?
JOSEPH: Cosmic Perspective
Passage: Genesis 45:1-15. As we come to the big reveal of the Joseph story, we're drawn into the reality that God is working His big story in all the little stories. We see God's faithfulness to redeem and reconcile. We see His power and...
JOSEPH: The Redemption of Judah
Passage: Genesis 44. Wasn't this a morality story about Joseph? Our most common misconception! There is so much more to this that once we start digging in, the connections never stop. This final test of Joseph's does more than j...
JOSEPH: Mercy Triumphs over Judgment
Passage: Genesis 43. Everyone knows that moment you realize you aren't in control. Circumstances are moving without you. And you have a choice. The story of Judah in the middle of the Joseph narrative reminds us there is redemption and m...
JOSEPH: You Shall Be Tested
Passage: Genesis 42. How does forgiveness work? What about for people who keep hurting us? Why does Jesus say we must forgive? This part of the Joseph story is a lesson that challenges our misunderstandings of forgiveness. We se...
JOSEPH: For Our Good
Passage: Genesis 41:37-57. We want something good. But good means different things to different people. What is my good? And is God working this out? Even now, in my circumstance and situation? Yes. He is good, all the time. He ...
JOSEPH: Multiplication Is Better Than Addition
Passage: Genesis 41:1-40. We want the thing that sounds best right now. But Kingdom multiplication involves processes like death... and then resurrection. Seeds die, then multiply. And so too, Joseph. If we embrace this Kingdom way, we f...
JOSEPH: Tell Me Your Dream
Passage: Genesis 40. We all experience disappointment. But what do you believe about God in those moments? Does He see? Does He care? This is the wrestle we experience in the Joseph story as he sees the breakthrough and then... nothing h...
JOSEPH: He Is With You
Passage: Genesis 39. We're always blaming it on where. Where we are. What's happening to us. It's all wrong. If only the circumstance would change. But Joseph is there in the middle of all-wrong and still, strangely, YAHWEH is with him. ...
JOSEPH: Judah & Tamar: Can We Grasp God's Sovereignty?
Passage: Genesis 38. What do we do with the really weird parts of the Bible? Like this story that's hardly ever told (and certainly not in Sunday School). Turns out, we can zoom out and ask God what He's trying to say through it all. In ...
JOSEPH: Cleanup on Aisle 9
Passage: Genesis 37:12-36. Messes we can relate to. The Bible is full of this. Humans doing human things. But this isn't the moral of the story: just try harder. Garth Klassen reminds us that it's about the faithfulness of God to walk wi...
JOSEPH: I Have a Dream
Passage: Genesis 37:1-11. As we begin to explore the story of Joseph, we're taken beyond a morality tale from Sunday School. We experience God's redemptive plans to work for His glory in the midst of our mess. It's an epic story! It's al...
EASTER: The Empty Tomb
Passage: Luke 24:1-11. We've been making the journey to this third day: the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. For the followers of Jesus, it came as a slow dawning reality. A process of stumbling toward this belief and conviction...
PALM SUNDAY: God's Big Parade
Passage: Luke 19:28-44. It's a parade! Jesus enters Jerusalem. There's weird parts and sad parts. People praise God. Jesus cries. What's happening? Join Jeff Peters unpack Luke's story as Jesus leads us in judgment and mercy, and meets u...
LUKE: Dissident Manifesto - A Well-Built Life
Passage: Luke 6:46-49. The conclusion to one of Jesus' most famous sermons. So direct. So encouraging. So challenging. A house on a rock. A foolish builder. A storm. And the question: Why won't you do what I say? As usual, Jesus...