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www.southpoint.ca — A fully affirming and welcoming church.
At Southpoint, it all begins with God’s Love. The more we know God’s love, the more we love.
We encourage relationships rather than run programs.
We are intentional yet organic, spacious yet authentic.
We share communion every week — everyone is welcome!
Our pastor is Rev. Anne Baxter Smith.
Gather with us Sundays at 10:00 am, 15639 24 Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada.
Get in touch at office@southpoint.ca
At Southpoint, it all begins with God’s Love. The more we know God’s love, the more we love.
We encourage relationships rather than run programs.
We are intentional yet organic, spacious yet authentic.
We share communion every week — everyone is welcome!
Our pastor is Rev. Anne Baxter Smith.
Gather with us Sundays at 10:00 am, 15639 24 Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada.
Get in touch at office@southpoint.ca
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We live in a world that is stripping people of their dignity. People are being “othered” for having the wrong skin colour, the wrong residency status, the wrong history, the wrong tattoos, the wrong clothes. A love for God and neighbour will remove shame, restore dignity, and tell a counter narrative around identity and worth.
In life, there are seasons of epiphany when the goodness we long for draws near. When the season passes, we carry on, holding the goodness we knew within us.
Salt and Light: a meditation to soften defences, find safety within, and expand
Listen for a brief meditation on the beatitudes, as well as an introduction to the movements of Relational Prayer
What was it like for Jesus to be baptized? What was it like to feel the cool water close over his head and return back into the sunshine? What feelings moved through his body as he heard the words “This is my beloved Son” spoken over him?
Looking for the light, watching and waiting for the ways that God is breaking in: where will the manifestation of God come this year? where will it lead us? what will we be invited to do? As we stop and look and watch and wait, we ground ourselves in Love. Today we remember the presence and the power of Love in our stories of last year.
Fear usually isolates us, but a "theology of proximity" imagines fear leading into deeper connection. "Give me your hand” is that movement towards greater proximity. Boyung Lee in her 'A Sanctified Art' commentary redefines faithfulness from following rules to drawing near to those who are vulnerable. Faithfulness risks joining those who are at risk. It means being vulnerable, and risking letting people draw near to us. Even when that feels scary to do so.
Even knowing the road ahead will be painful, disorienting and with a high risk of death, what is it that prompts both Mary and Jeremiah say "yes" to what is asked of them?
We do not always witness the where and the how of God’s work.The movement of God does not always arrive with clarity. At times, it is almost imperceptible because it does not resolve as we had imagined. And yet, we are still invited to pay attention and to tell each other what we see: “Now it springs forth—do you not perceive it?” “Tell what you hear and see.”
“Every Advent, we light candles, sing carols, and pray for Christ’s coming because we believe God entered a frightened world to bring good news… God chose to take on flesh in the time of Herod. God intimately knows the fears we experience. Instead of donning some kind of armour, God chose to arrive in the most vulnerable embodiment: that of a newborn baby without a sure place to rest… We can join God in choosing vulnerability in the face of fear.” — A Sanctified ArtWhen we find ourselves in fearful times, can we acknowledge our fears while also insisting on hope? Can we name our fear and believe that God’s Love is drawing near? This Advent, you are invited to notice where fear is present—both in the Advent story and in your life. You are also invited to notice the reservoirs of hope deep within you. As we make room for the vulnerability of both deep hope and honest fear, we wait for God to draw near.
Remaining faithful to one another, and to where we live ... filled with life, filled with hope.
The Pharisees tried to make the Law small and defined so they could fulfill it.But Jesus wants us to focus on the biggest, most fruitful expression of the Law, one that is so expansive and life-giving that only God can fulfill it.
Luke 19:1-10
God hears our cries. God shares our eagerness for justice.In Richard Rohr’s daily blog entry “Prophetic Solidarity and Compassion” he wrote, “Empires are never built or maintained on the basis of compassion... Empires live by numbness. Empires expect numbness about the human cost of war. Corporate economies expect blindness to the cost in terms of poverty and exploitation. Governments and societies of domination go to great lengths to keep the numbness intact”. What lengths will we go to feel? Will we allow ourselves to feel the anger and the compassion that wells us when we see injustice?
May we notice and enjoy God’s gifts, and let that enjoyment spill over into praise and thanksgiving.
The gospel’s life force will not be stripped of its wild power to heal and renew. Jesus continues to call people into a way of life that is alive, unruly, and renewing. Each small act—whether a moment of truth-telling, a word of repentance, a gesture of forgiveness, or humble acts of service—becomes a container for the re-wilding power of Love.
In Luke 16:19-31, Jesus speaks of a rich man who wore expensive purple linen clothes and ate sumptuous feasts every day, while a poor man named Lazarus begged at his gate. Covered in sores which dogs came and licked, he longed to eat the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yet the rich man did not draw near nor show compassion to the poor man. As is so often in Jesus’ parables, he turned the table on his listeners: what do we do in the face of suffering? Do we draw near? Do we distance?
This week, Scott Hill shared about his dad, one of his role models in “eco-discipleship”. I wonder who modelled for you how to love and care for creation? In our scripture passage this week, Luke 16: 1-14, we find an unlikely role model—a dishonest manager who, after losing trust with his employer by cooking the books, was about to lose his home. Like the dishonest manager, the collective human preoccupation with getting and keeping more money has led to the squandering of God’s creation. We, too, are at risk of losing our home.
It's the beginning of Season of Creation! This year's theme is "Making Peace with Creation" and we are continuing our year-long journey with the lectionary, through the Gospel of Luke. As ever, we are also asking the question "What Does Love Look Like, Now?" Today, we are attending Jesus' parable in Luke 14: 25-33.
This summer, we’ve been practicing table talk. We’ve made space to share and space to listen. As we draw this summer series to a close, pause to remember the many times you’ve sat at Love’s Table. What tables have been memorable in your life? Who sat at them with you? What happened at these table that you treasure?
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