Southside Community Church - Milton

Sunday, October 10, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 7 When you have "skeletons in your closet" there's a dread that drifts along all the time. The fear that your past will catch up needs to be addressed by an understanding of confession, forgiveness and grace.

Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 3 The bible describes the human heart as potentially deceitful and desperately wicked. Haman is a case study in that condition. How does a person become so hateful and vindictive? Is there a darkness in our own hearts that we need to discern and allow truth and love to penetrate it?

Sunday, September 26, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 8 Do you have friends and neighbours who are of the Jewish Faith? What relationship do we as Christians have with these friends? How do you think Israel has factored into world history and what is the future for Israel? Esther saved a nation from extinction!

Sunday, September 19, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 2 Mordecai challenged Esther to use her opportunity for God's plan and asked  "Who knows but that you have attained royalty for such a time as this" Why am I where I am, doing what I do as far as God is concerned? We'll talk about discerning our place in this world as having been fixed for God to use for His plans.

Sunday September 12, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 2.5-7 Early in the story of Esther we meet Mordecai - one of the two heroes in the story. He is the target of the villain's wrath and his life is in constant jeopardy. However the tables are turned in a nail biting drama.

Sunday, September 5, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Esther 1 As we begin a new teaching series this week we will learn how Queen Esther realized that she found herself in a unique set of circumstances "for such a time as this." We'll have opportunity to meet the story's characters and the ways they relate to our time and circumstances.  Ahasuerus (Xerxes) was handed celebrity that he allowed to "go to his head" and he lived in luxury and fame. We will talk about having open eyes to understand that the splendour of success in life should be handled with a strong grain of salt and that allowing

Sunday, August 29, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 1.17-18 God’s gifts. James has a lovely set of expressions about God, the Father of Lights and how every good and perfect gifts comes from Him. He also understands that we are one of the gifts God gives to the world so that we can be an example of His gifts – His first fruits.

August 22, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.18 When we know what the “right thing” is we should be determined to actually do it. The Bible (and specifically James) is very clear on some things we know are the right things to do and so not to do those things is a sinful way of living quite apart from not doing the “wrong thing. The talk will be about identifying some right things and making a plan to do them.

Sunday, August 15, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.4-6 One of the right things that James instructs us to do is to pay fair wages and treat employees well. That's not only for those who actually employ others but about respecting the jobs that people do and honouring them. The talk will be about noticing those around us who do the jobs we need done but aren't our primary responsibility and having lives of gratitude towards them all.

August 8, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.11-12 We’re not to judge or speak against one another says James. What does he mean by that in practice? He says that we speak against the law by speaking against one another. And since God is the lawgiver he warns us against this. Let’s try to figure out what he means!

Sunday August 1, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.14-18 Prayer for the sick. James gives the only specific instructions in the Bible for this kind of prayer. He goes back to Elijah of the Old Testament as an example of the faith that healing prayer requires - but what is it about Elijah that we should learn?

Sunday, July 25, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 5.12-13 "your yes is to be yes and your no, no" says James. Am I known as a person whose word is good? It's a high compliment when someone can readily assess me that way!

Sunday, July 18, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 4.1-17 “What’s really going on here?” is a question we should ask in the middle of quarrels. James says that we should look inside and be honest about what’s really at the heart of the matter.

Sunday, July 11, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 3.1-13 Where did that come from? Ever say something and you find yourself asking that question? James supplies the answer.

Sunday, July 4, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 2.14-26 Maurice Blondel said " The one who talks, especially if he talks to God, can affect a great deal, but the one who acts really means business and has more claim on our attention. If you want to know what a person really believes, don't listen to what he says but watch what he does." James presses this point powerfully as we shall see on Sunday!

Sunday, June 27, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 2.2; 1 Samuel 16.7 What kind of person impresses you, honestly? With the wisdom of Scripture in our hearts and on our minds, remember that humanly we see what's on the outside while God sees what's in the heart. "What do you see before you look?"

Sunday, June 20th 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell Luke 15 The most famous father in the Bible is perhaps that of what is called the prodigal son. Did you ever wonder what happened the next day after the celebrations were over?

June 13, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 1.19-26 Did you ever wish you could take back something you said? Here is one of James' practical applications in his "walk the talk" letter. How can we learn to hold our tongues when we should and yet know when not to be silent when we should not be reluctant to speak out?

June 6, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 1:13-18 One of the ways that testing comes our way is in the area of temptation. Starting with our great ancestor Eve we have all been the target of this strange desire. What tempts you? How do you respond to this .. we all face it, right?

May 30, 2021 Speaker: Ian Campbell James 1:2-1 & 5:7-11 There is perhaps no greater challenge to life and faith than very, very difficult circumstances. For some they are a threat to faith while for others they are the very reason to hold on to faith. James gives us detailed help for hard times.