Summit Drive Church

In Part 5 of our series Speaking of Jesus, Pastor Colton encourages us to see our role as priests, or "chaplains" for a challenging world. He encourages us to live out our faith with wisdom and intentional care among our families, our neighbourhood, our workplace, our places of recreation, and the people we see at the coffee shop or grocery store - the frontlines of our world, where we are called to declare the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light.

In this message we see the power of story for making sense of life and faith, drawing on Paul’s example in Acts 26. We then look at some very practical ways to share our own story as a key part of “Speaking of Jesus”.

Guest speaker, Dan Sczebel, continues our series, 'Speaking of Jesus: Everyday Practices for Sharing Gospel Hope,' by speaking on hospitality and how being a good listener plays a large part in that.

In Part Two of our series “Speaking of Jesus”, Pastor Dave shows how community plays a significant role in the process of people coming to believe the good news of Jesus, and what this means for our approach to evangelism. We’ll see how Jesus' own approach to ministry sets the example for us.

As we begin our new series, 'Speaking of Jesus: Everyday Practices for Sharing Gospel Hope' Pastor Dave describes some of the hang-ups and challenges we might have with 'evangelism.'  We’ll then look at the goodness of the Good News, a basic understanding of what we even mean when we say ‘evangelism’, and why we would be excited to participate in God’s mission.

In Part 2 of our short series, Life in the Spirit, Pastor Colton goes to 1 John and looks at how God’s grace spurs on toward honest fellowship and love for one another. Because of God’s grace through Jesus, we can be part of creating an honest, humble, culture of grace as we do life together by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Life in the Spirit: Transformed by God | Part One

Heaven & Nature Sing! | 'Joy to the World'

In this message, Pastor Colton unpacks the song "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!" and encourages us to listen, to hear what the angels are proclaiming at Christ's birth. God became man and made it possible for us to be born again - for the life of God to get into the hearts of humanity. At Christmas, God is doing a wonderful, creative work through Jesus!

Because the Christian faith moves us long past the trivial and into the deep waters of the real world – the one where we experience guilt and loss and despair, as well as longing and desire; and the one where God is present and working if we would take have “eyes to see, and ears to hear” to quote Jesus.  Living alive to God in the “real world” calls for attentiveness. And that’s what our song is calling for: “Come and behold him, born the king of angels.  O come, let us adore him…”