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
69 episodes
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. It's about the faithfulness of God to walk with us, even in the mess, and H...
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...
LUKE: Dissident Manifesto - Tree & Fruit
Passage: Luke 6:43-45. What does the Bible say about trees? And what about fruit? Is this important or maybe just a passing illustration about trying harder to be good. Am I the good tree? Am I the good human? What would it take to becom...
LUKE: Dissident Manifesto - Choose Your Measure
Passage: Luke 6:37-42. What's the boomerang principle? What's metrication? Why is Pastor Jon talking about his weight? Join us as we hear the challenge in Jesus' call to a Kingdom metric in our relationships with others. Can we change? W...
LUKE: Dissident Manifesto - Even Sinners Do That
Passage: Luke 6:27-36. Jesus is saying ridiculous and outlandish things. Like: Love your enemies. Or: Give to everyone who asks. Crazy stuff we could never do. Certainly not what anyone in the world expects from us. But...
LENT: You Are Invited
This Sunday we heard from a few different voices all inviting us into this season of knowing God more intimately. Exploration of the Lent theme from Pastor Garth, and testimonies from Neil Klassen and Pete White round out this beautiful time of...
LUKE: Dissident Manifesto - Inside-Outside Upside-Down
Passage: Luke 6:20-26. Jesus walks around on mission. Setting people free and healing everyone. But what's His message? What would new creation people who live aligned with the coming Kingdom look like? Today is part one of Jesu...
LUKE: First Things First
Passage: Luke 6:11-19. It's the in-between. Or maybe we should say in the in-between, we see Jesus ordering His life. His withdrawal to prayer, then assigning his inner-circle of community and then power going out to heal the ma...
LUKE: Good News for the Open Handed
Passage: Luke 6:1-11. You're busy! We get it. Everyone is so busy. Maybe on your way right now, listening to this. And there is an invitation for you and me... from Jesus. You can enter into rest. Sabbath rest. Not through a system, but ...
STEWARDSHIP: Heart & Treasure
Passage: Luke 12:13-34. Jesus and Pastor Jon are talking money, but maybe it's not what you think. We're warned about the danger of greed and worry to derail you. A problem then, and now. But derailed from what? The Kingdom mandate is to...
STEWARDSHIP: I'm Not Hiding
Passage: John 1:1-4. What has God given us? The Word. Usually we mean the Bible, but John (and Garth) challenges us to think bigger. Jesus is the Word made flesh, so any talk about how we steward the Word stretches us beyond knowing the ...
STEWARDSHIP: In Your Hankie
Passage: Luke 19:11-27. What has God entrusted to you? And what are you doing with it? These are the questions we're wrestling as we take on stewardship in the biggest sense of the word. Today, we unpack a parable about a king a...
Lasting Peace
Passage: Romans 5:1-11. It's epiphany and we're still talking about peace. Today is a beautiful reminder of the simplest of all truths: Jesus has made peace for us. It's easy to point fingers at a world at war and forget the inner confli...
ADVENT: Unexpected People - John
Passage: Luke 1:57-80. Why is fire-and-brimstone John the Baptist part of the Christmas story? Does he have good news? Is this a love message? And what's all this about mercy? Mercy, mercy God came to show mercy. A baby, a song and a mes...
ADVENT: Unexpected People - Ladies & Babies
Passage: Luke 1:37-57. We're up to our third story of unexpected people in the advent story. We're in a dramatic recap of all three stories as we hear it all in a fresh way. And of course, the shock is that it's ladies, babies and the hu...
ADVENT: Unexpected People - Mary
Passage: Luke 1:26-38. Another angel with another message. This time equally surprising. A young girl. But less surprising if you read Matthew's geneology where he redeems the shame of several young women's stories. How is God healing ou...
ADVENT: Unexpected People - Zechariah
Passage: Luke 1:5-25. Does God see me? Does He care? Can He change my situation? Zechariah's story is such a great one. Unexpected maybe as the start of the nativity story, but amazing nonetheless. We can hope because of who God is. He i...
