Southside Community Church - Milton

This Sunday features our youth and recaps our exciting VBS week! A few of our Youth students will lead worship, and VBS leaders will share stories and highlights from the week.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew concludes our Question & Response mini-series on Christian thinking. Today, he tackles topics such as the relationship between Science and Scripture, swearing, evolution, healing prayer, and biblical obedience. We also celebrate this summer's Vacation Bible School, where our dedicated team of volunteers, interns, and staff guided 23 children through an enriching discipleship experience.

This week Pastor Andrew responds to questions re: What Christians Think. He covers topics like Inerrancy, Gifts of the Spirit, divorce and remarriage, making money, science and scripture, and more.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew addresses soteriology—the doctrine of salvation—and explore different Christian perspectives on this topic. Affirming the line from the Nicene Creed "For us and for our salvation," Pastor Andrew explains how we not only receive God's mercy at a moment of salvation, but also experience His new and fresh mercies each morning.

District Superintendent for the Central District of The Alliance Canada, Shane Gould, speaks on 'What Christians Think About The Holy Spirit.' As part of our summer series, the message looks into what the Bible says about the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit that leads to a greater encounter and life with Christ, including misunderstandings, mystery, and how the Holy Spirit moves.

This week, Pastor Andrew teaches on Christian Anthropology: what Christians think about humanity. He covers things like Imago Dei, Sin Nature, Gnosticism, the Flesh vs. the Spirit, Redemption & New Creation.

This week Pastor Andrew teaches on what Christians think about Christ. With a focus on Christology, we explore the Christian doctrine called the hypostatic union: the humanity and divinity of Christ. If Christ is divine, how then shall we live?

In this weeks message, Gerald Tarcisius examines the role of Scripture and tradition in shaping the way Christians think, paying close attention to how these sources inform our understanding of truth. We also reflect on what a posture of humility looks like in theological reflection, and how believers can faithfully discern historical Orthodox truth amid a pluralistic and often confusing cultural landscape.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew continues the teaching series "What Christians Think" by exploring God's identity as a loving Father—focusing on both the first line of the Nicene Creed and the Lord's Prayer. Coinciding with Father's Day weekend, Pastor Andrew examines how Scripture portrays God as Father and the characteristics He displays.

This week's services included several special elements. We witnessed Calder's baptism at the end of the 10:45 am service, where he shared his testimony and we celebrated together. During the teaching time, Pastor Andrew gave a brief overview of the Christian understanding of baptism.

This Sunday we continue our teaching season called What Christians Think with a focus on scripture. David Busuttil, a regular attendee at Southside, helps us explore three questions from a historic Christian perspective: What is the Bible? What is the story of the Bible? How should we use the Bible in our spiritual journey toward Jesus? David draws from his education, ministry experience, and personal passion for this topic to lead us in this conversation.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew describes the epistemological era that many social commentators suggest we're experiencing in the West: metamodernity. He discusses AI's impact on truth and knowledge, including our access to it, and explains the Christian perspective on natural versus special revelation.

This past Sunday, Pastor Andrew continued the teaching season called What Christians Think by exploring a common Christian epistemology: the correspondence theory of truth. He contrasts this with secular postmodern assumptions that challenge our Western culture and institutions. Pastor Andrew explains why a prior knowledge—accepted by faith—serves as the only viable foundation, and he explores how faith and revelation work together as pathways to understanding in the Christian framework.

This week Pastor Andrew sets up our What Christians Think teaching season with attention on the Nicene Creed and some thoughts from his time in London.

What if the future of the Church isn’t something we wait for, but something we build together? In a time when many see decline, we believe God is inviting us into a sacred opportunity: to invest in the next generation with intentionality and faith. In this message, Gabriel unpacks what it means to have Faith in the Future, not as wishful thinking, but as a calling to speak truth, equip, and empower our young people to walk boldly with Jesus.

This week, Pastor Andrew shares some visions for Southside and transitions us from the topic of joy to a teaching on basic Christian doctrine in a series called “What Christians Think”. This Sunday our focus and attention is on the Great Commission in Matthew 28.

This Palm Sunday, Pastor Andrew delivers a thoughtful message exploring Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, drawing from the parallel accounts in Matthew 21 and John 12. The teaching particularly examines how this pivotal moment connects to Philippians 2, where Paul articulates the profound call for believers to embrace and embody Christ's humble mindset. We reflect together on what it means for the contemporary church to follow Jesus' example and willingly participate in both his humility and his suffering.

This Sunday, Pastor Andrew shares an uplifting message about finding joy through discipline! Drawing from the encouraging words of Hebrews 12:5-7, he helps us explore how God's loving guidance, though sometimes challenging, leads us to deeper joy. Together, we discover how embracing these growth moments can bring unexpected happiness and transformation. As our Road to Joy Lent devotional beautifully reminds us, God's heart is always for our flourishing, and welcoming His gentle shaping of our lives helps us grow more like Christ each day

This Sunday we had a Family Fun & Blessing Service. The first mention of the word “bless” in the Bible is found in Genesis 1:28 when God the Father blessed them with a prophetic word to be fruitful and multiply. The Hebrew word for blessing is “Baruch” which means, "To empower to prosper", and as a church we want to create space to provide blessings to each other. Pastor Andrew provides guidance for creating and giving a blessing, and then the congregation breaks off into their family or friend groups to participate in the practice of blessing.

This week Pastor Andrew builds on the teaching from Todd Hall's Relational Spirituality. Last week, we were introduced to the framework that produces spiritual formation: loving presence → attachment filters → explicit to implicit knowledge → deep growth. This week, we explore the practical rhythms and routines in church life that facilitate Relational Spirituality movements.