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If someone asked you to sum up Christian faith in just one sentence, one overarching idea, or one call to action what would you say? When Jesus is asked which is the greatest commandment, his reply is a two-for-one deal that is both highly innovative and steeped in tradition. This week, to finish up this short series, Andrea takes a turn going through Jesus’s teaching on the greatest commandment in Mark 12: 28-31. Rather than tying up all the loose ends, she shares some of the things that she is still thinking about in this text, including what standing in solidarity with the other looks like, and acknowledging how difficult it can be in this life-long process of loving God and loving your neighbour.

If someone asked you to sum up Christian faith in just one sentence, one overarching idea, or one call to action what would you say? When Jesus is asked which is the greatest commandment, his reply is a two-for-one deal that is both highly innovative and steeped in tradition. This week, Kim looks at Jesus’s teaching on the greatest commandment in Mark 12: 28-31. She goes back into the Hebrew Bible to help us understand how Deuteronomy 6 and Leviticus 19 help to shape Jesus' answer; the commandment is not to love, the commandment is to listen. Loving God and loving our neighbour grows as our response to listening and paying attention around us.

At the end of John’s Gospel, Jesus tells Peter to feed and love his sheep. As disciples, we are called to do the same and care for God’s people…but who are the sheep and what does feeding them look like? In this series we will explore stories from throughout the Bible where Jesus, disciples, prophets, and the Spirit love and care for others. This week, Todd concludes our series with a reflection on Ezekiel 34, where God promises to shepherd his people with justice, compassion, and care. Through this vision of the Good Shepherd, we are reminded that God's heart is for those who are lost, wounded, and overlooked—and that following Jesus means joining in that work of restoration.

At the end of John’s Gospel, Jesus tells Peter to feed and love his sheep. As disciples, we are called to do the same and care for God’s people…but who are the sheep and what does feeding them look like? In this series we will explore stories from throughout the Bible where Jesus, disciples, prophets, and the Spirit love and care for others. This week, Andrea reflects on Paul's vision of the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians, exploring what it means to care for God's sheep in a world that often overlooks the vulnerable. Through a disability lens, we are reminded that those society may consider weak or invisible are indispensable to the flourishing of the whole. Following Jesus means joining God's work of honouring, caring for, and centring those whom the world too often pushes aside.

At the end of John’s Gospel, Jesus tells Peter to feed and love his sheep. As disciples, we are called to do the same and care for God’s people…but who are the sheep and what does feeding them look like? In this series we will explore stories from throughout the Bible where Jesus, disciples, prophets, and the Spirit love and care for others. This week, Andrea reflects on Pentecost through a series of “metaphorical photographs” from across Scripture — moments where God’s Spirit guides, restores, comforts, and goes before God’s people. Pentecost invites us to remember that we are not sent out alone, but carried forward by the God of hope who continues to lead us into what’s next.

At the end of John’s Gospel, Jesus tells Peter to feed and love his sheep. As disciples, we are called to do the same and care for God’s people…but who are the sheep and what does feeding them look like? In this series we will explore stories from throughout the Bible where Jesus, disciples, prophets, and the Spirit love and care for others. This week, Todd explores what it means to “feed my sheep” through compassion, covenant love, and relationship. Through David’s deeply human story — marked by grief, failure, beauty, and mercy — we are reminded that God’s desire is not simply belief, but love lived out in care for particular people.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Todd teaches from John 21, reflecting on Jesus’ post-resurrection appearance and what it reveals about who He truly is. This passage invites us to see both Jesus and ourselves more clearly: to recognize His self-giving humility, to rediscover our own humanity, and to consider how being known and welcomed by Christ draws us toward others with the same grace.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Andrea teaches from John 13, reflecting on Jesus washing the disciples’ feet and what it reveals about who He truly is. Beyond simply calling us to serve, this passage invites us to receive—to allow Jesus to meet us in our vulnerability, to be fully seen and known, and to discover how being served by Christ transforms the way we love and serve others.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Todd teaches from John 11, reflecting on the raising of Lazarus and what it truly means that Jesus is “the resurrection and the life.” Rather than focusing only on the miracle itself, we are invited to see the deeper wonder of a Saviour who enters our grief, stands in solidarity with our sorrow, and reveals that eternal life is not a product to earn but a person to trust.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Andrea reflects on John 5, inviting us to put on our “Jesus glasses” and learn to see as Jesus sees. Through a story of unprovoked grace and those Jesus chooses to see, we are challenged to notice the unseen and trust God’s work, even when it disrupts familiar ways of seeing.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Kim teaches on John 3, inviting us to move beyond the safety of certainty and into a deeper, relational trust in Jesus—one that opens our eyes to the Spirit’s transforming work.

Throughout this series, we will journey alongside many in the Gospel of John who do not truly “see” Jesus at first, but eventually come to a new way of “seeing” him. We hope both to recognize more clearly the presence of Jesus in our lives, and to learn what prevents us from recognizing Jesus at work in our midst. This week, Todd teaches on John 1, calling us to a more expansive, compassionate faith—one shaped not by power or certainty, but by attentive love that moves us toward others and the good of the world.

During the four weeks leading up to Christmas we will be waiting with anticipation and preparing our hearts for the arrival of Jesus. This week, Andrea reflects on an unexpected vision of the nativity—rather than settling for a safe or polished version of Christmas, she invites us to remember that Jesus comes into a broken world, where vulnerability and danger coexist. It encourages us to hold onto the familiar story of the baby in the manger while staying open to the deeper truth that God’s unexpected light is stronger than any darkness.

During the four weeks leading up to Christmas we will be waiting with anticipation and preparing our hearts for the arrival of Jesus. This week, Todd reflects on Advent as a season of both unexpected darkness and unexpected, incomparable light, inviting us to stay open to moments of wonder—even small or silly ones—as signs of God’s hope breaking into the world through Jesus, the light of the world. It encourages a posture of readiness, not by forcing expectations on the season, but by being willing to see grace in ordinary moments.

The landscape of church right now presents a range of possibilities. There are churches that champion causes familiar to political conservatism. There are churches that champion causes familiar to political progressivism. The Book of Romans challenges us to see a gospel that is beyond causes or political affiliation.  This week, Kim wraps up the series on Romans, teaching chapters 13-16.