Summit Drive Church

This week, Dr. Frik Kruger explores how busyness in our lives distracts us from a deeper life-giving relationship with Jesus through the story of Martha and Mary found in Luke 10: 38-42. We will explore ways that we can return to that Peace that Jesus promises in Matthew 11: 28-30.

We live in a time and place where worry is often a marker of people's lives. How does worry work? And what can we do about it? Jesus' words invite us to ask ourselves some important questions that will help us put off the heavy burden of worry and take up the light yoke he has for us instead.

In this message we see how Jesus’ unburdens us of the insatiable drive for more – more money, more stuff, that can easily derail and enslave us. So, Jesus offers a stark choice: serve God or money. You can’t serve both. Through his own life, death, and resurrection, Jesus intends to make us a people who live for more than the bottom line – who live for the kingdom.

This week, Pastor Ricky explores the burden of anger and contempt. We'll see how human anger makes us act in haste and hold on to wrongs suffered. We'll learn how to take the space we need to process anger without hurting others and how to let go of wrongs suffered to live in greater freedom.

This week, Dr. Grant Del Begio will look at Paul’s encouragement in Ephesians 5 to imitate God as his well loved children. While this at first sounds intimidating, the focus is on learning to love well as we unload our backpacks of the idols, compulsions, and addictions we are all prone to carry.

This week, Pastor Ricky explores the burden of worldly sorrow in 2 Corinthians 7: 9-13. We learn that worldly sorrow perpetuates a cycle of sin when the voice of shame encourages us to turn away from Jesus. Godly sorrow breaks that cycle by turning to Jesus in repentance and letting his love grow us.

This week, as we continue to learn about travelling light, Pastor Gerald will focus on how, at God’s heart, his deep desire is for us to live as forgiven people and forgiving people.

As we begin our series “Travelling Light,” Jesus invites us to recognize the many ways that we are weary and burdened, and take on a new way of life: his way. At the very centre of this new way of life, of Jesus’ “yoke,” is deep communion with the Living God. We learn this way of life as we come to Jesus in trust.

This week, Pastor Ricky finishes our Exodus series by returning to what we mean when we say God. Exodus shows us a God who sees and hears the suffering, delivers us from evil, keeps His promises, and is with us.

In Exodus 33, we see the theme of God’s presence show up throughout this text. We discover that God’s presence is essential for his people Israel and essential for us today. Like Moses, when we want God, we will know God’s presence more fully.