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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stories, heart connection and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Weekly teachings from a community seeking to shape bright disciples, restore faith and cover the earth with the selfless love of Jesus.

Christians often put too much focus on forgiveness in "our" gospel, while simultaneously not putting enough focus on forgiveness in "our" gospel. Distinguishing self-focused, individualistic forgiveness models from Jesus' relational/transactional model can be challenging, but doing so is essential in order to express and live out authentic, biblical reconciliation.

This week Steven continues teaching on the constructs of God - presenting the Christian worldview's response to the challenge of comprehending the incomprehensible: Jesus. In John 14 Jesus tells us that if we've seen Him, we've seen the Father. Thus, we can determine a constructive construct of God through what the gospels reveal to us about Jesus.

We all have an image of God in our head - and none of us get it right. It's a reality we can't escape when trying to use finite language and ideas to describe the infinite. However, there are a few particularly bad constructs that yield destructive results.