Weekly teachings from a community seeking to cover the earth with the selfless love of Jesus.
Episodes
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Monday Sep 30, 2019
In this final sermon of four on Jesus's vision of love, we look at the entangling of un-forgiveness and self-righteousness. Peter asks: how many times should I forgive? And Jesus opens up a view on love and reconciliation that would change everything.
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
As we continue to rescue the word "love" and put it into a Christian framework, this third sermon takes us into Jesus' teaching about lowliness, humility and being willing to be a servant of all. Love, in Jesus' view, is purified from any pattern of self-exaltation.
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
In this second of four sermons exploring the nature of love, we look at the middle phase of Jesus' ministry, his hard teachings, and his call to discipleship: self-denial, cross-bearing, and keeping our eyes fixed on him. This vision of love is so different than our culture's, and though self-denial is never self-loathing, we must do the work to see that Jesus' love has no room for patterns of self-preservation. Jesus does all he can to show us that the only way to life, to ongoing resurrection, is through the way of daily self-less giving.
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Love is a powerful word we throw around daringly. We tend to think it describes a feeling or sensation but in the Christian life, love is the heartbeat of a life of sacrifice and a lifelong training of our will. This sermon opens up a season of reflection at Grassroots on Christian love. We begin simply by looking and listening to the love of the Master as He moves away from patterns of self-protection, self exaltation and self-righteousness. By looking more closely at the story of the feeding of the 5,000 in the Gospel of Matthew, we see the extent Jesus was willing to go to tell a broken world that God is love.
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Our Christian life works only if we are pursuing Jesus and tending to the transformation of our hearts. Opening up the Parable of the Sower for Jesus' teaching on the human heart, this stand alone sermon invites us to think about our role in keeping our hearts open to God's abundant, extravagant grace.
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
All followers of Jesus are called to a lifelong consuming pursuit of knowing Jesus our Lord. This stand alone message takes a look at Paul's passionate pursuit of knowing Jesus, which Paul speaks about in Philippians 2-3, how holding on to the Word of Life shapes us into bright disciples.
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Bonita Ledua of Northwind Family Ministries provides an update on the work of her ministry and shares a timely message on hope, gleaning a powerful lesson from the story of Moses and the Israelites at the river Marah, where they stopped to drink water but found they could not because it was bitter.
Sunday Jul 21, 2019
Sunday Jul 21, 2019
Visiting Pastor Ken Funk shares some insights on the simple truths that the unnamed centurion in Matthew 8 understood and that can serve as helpful reminders in our own faith journeys - regardless of how far along we've come.
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Stories, heart connection and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
This week Pastor Keith opens up Romans 12 and the call for us to love as Jesus loved. To do this, Paul says to outdo one another showing honour to people who who have given us no reason not to like them. We show honour to people who are not like us. We show honour to those who do not like us. And we show honour to those who we really, really do not like.