Jul 06, 2025
Each location will have a live speaker for the month of July. To hear each speaker head to messages.southridgechurch.ca
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Today, we want to practice something many people find hard to experience, and that’s JOY. Believe it or not, joy is something that can be practiced...
About 500 years ago, there was a woman by the name of Teresa of Avila, who was a nun and a mystic who left behind several books, poems, prayers, practices that many to this day still find inspiring. One of her well-loved poems is called, “Christ Has No Body”.
Because of that, interacting with Scripture is like a ‘superfood’ of spiritual growth. And yet as we build the habit of reading scripture into our rhythms – which is excellent – we can start to speed over parts of the story that we’ve heard over and over again. And so sometimes what’s right in front of us can become invisible, because we’re so used to it.