Lakeside Church

Have you ever wondered what makes some people and some places leave such a positive mark in your life? In John 13, Jesus shared a simple yet profound idea with his followers about love that can transform the way we relate to others. In this message, Pastor Daniel Bell reflects on his years at Lakeside by sharing stories of where he’s seen love in action.

Sometimes - most times - words fail us. In our passage today (Luke 13:18-21) Jesus begins to describe the Kingdom of God – life as God intends it – in a story (a parable). The words he uses are, well, unflattering. It’s shocking to his first audience and counterintuitive for us as well. Join Pastor Robyn Elliott as we delve into the nature of the Jesus Way and look into the mirror of this parable, allowing it to skin us inside out.

Not Your Boulder To Carry | June 12 2022 by Lakeside Church

It is easy to look back in history and give your head a shake at the atrocious things Christians have done. “How could they be so stupid?”... “What were they thinking?”... “How did they not see their hypocrisy?” But what if the same tendencies reside in us? How do we avoid making the same mistakes today? In this message, looking at Luke 13:10-17, Pastor Marc Gagnon helps us unpack some of our blindspots when it comes to following the way of Jesus and standing in the gap for vulnerable people.

How different are we, as Jesus followers, from our culture and its ideologies? Are we emulating Jesus or are we just a reflection of the world with a quirky Sunday habit? In today’s text – the climax of his entire sermon that started with BEWARE!, Jesus pulls no punches, and challenges his audience - and us - to argue with our assumptions, and to take a long hard look in the mirror. Join Pastor Robyn Elliott for this message as we delve into Luke 13:1-9..

Do you ever find yourself reminiscing about the past, thinking how good things used to be? Or do you find yourself wishing you were a bit further ahead in life, in your ideal future? What is it about the present that makes us want to escape? In this message, Lakeside Downtown Site Pastor, Daniel Bell leads us through a section of Luke 12 as we discover that if we take the time to wrestle with the current moment we find ourselves in, we may find opportunities before us that we never would have seen otherwise.

Relationships are messy. Sometimes, relationships within the church are messy. Sometimes, relationships within our own household (even when we are all Jesus followers) are messy. (Some might say it’s because we are Jesus followers). In this message, Pastor Marc Gagnon walks us through a section of Luke 12 that shows us why following Jesus often leads to division … but it’s not always a bad thing!

If your image of Jesus is Mr. Nice Guy, today’s passage could blow that up. With some graphic story-telling Jesus warned his original listeners that if they weren’t careful they’d totally miss him. And, they did. The struggle 2000 years later is still the same. Christians today are still missing Jesus in so many ways. Tune in with Pastor Robyn Elliott as we look at this funky section of Luke 12.

We all have a very simple solution to financial stress - more money. If only we had a bit more money, we wouldn’t have to worry. If only we had a bit more money we could … pay our bills, buy something new, plan for a vacation, save for retirement, school, or an emergency fund. Maybe we could even give (more) to charity or the church. The problem is, statistics tell a different story. More money doesn’t solve our money problems. So, what if there was a way to shrink our financial stress without ever adding a dollar to our income? In Luke 12, Jesus gives some encouragement and instruction to people who were stressed about money, and 2,000 years later, it is just as applicable today as it was then.

Greed. We see it in others - in celebrities, in corporations, in those we would consider wealthy, and even in people around us. Certainly our world has a problem with greed, but it’s not a problem for us, is it? The reality is, many of us suffer from it but we’ll never know. As Pastor Marc Gagnon walks us through a section of Luke 12, we might think at first glance that this story doesn’t apply to us, but Jesus taught on this topic 25% of the time… and as we will discover in this message, greed is an equal opportunity offender.