“When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith." ” – Luke 7:9 Faith is a tricky thing. We talk a lot about it in the church, we profess it week-in and week out in the creeds, we have faith in people, in ideas, in God. And yet as much as we talk about it, as much as faith shapes who we are as Christians and as a Church – I would argue that for most of us, our Christian ‘faith’ can be … [Read more...]
Can I Get a Witness?
“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.” - Acts 2:32 Today we celebrate Pentecost, the birthday of the church, the coming of Jesus’ promised gift of the Holy Spirit and the moment which led to the transformation of a small group of disciples almost two thousand years ago, into the Christian movement which spans the globe and numbers over 2 billion to this day. … [Read more...]
Break Down these Walls
“If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?” – Acts 11:17 While I’m not typically an advocate in favour of skipping the Old Testament lesson on a Sunday morning, it is one of the pleasures of the Easter Season that we get to hear 9 weeks of readings from the book of Acts. Despite this consistency during the Easter Season, we nonetheless hear these lessons out of context. Last week we heard the story of Tabitha, and … [Read more...]
Lay Your Hands on Me
Alleluia Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed Alleluia!! While we tend to make a big deal about celebrating the one-day of Easter Sunday, the joy of the season of Easter is that we get to celebrate it for six weeks following Easter Sunday all the way until Pentecost. Every Sunday is a Resurrection Sunday, but for six weeks we focus specifically on the Resurrection, we focus specifically on the stories of Jesus, which speak of the Resurrection, or the stories from the Book of Acts, and the … [Read more...]
Reckless and Relentless
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a work filled with memorable and quotable lines that have permeated throughout our cultural imaginations, and perhaps one of the most famous among them is “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." So what’s in a name? I remember when Bethany and I first found out we were expecting our first child; we were quickly able to settle on names for our coming child: one for a girl and one for a boy. As the pregnancy … [Read more...]
Feast and Famine
How many of you have given something up for Lent this year? Or perhaps some of you have taken on a new discipline? We’re here on the third Sunday of Lent, near the mid-point of the season, so how’s it going? Or if not this year have you given up something in past years? … [Read more...]
All You Need is Love
"Love is Patient; Love is Kind..." This beautiful and majestic passage of Scripture is so often read at weddings between men and women, because of it's subject matter: Love. … [Read more...]
Stories Don’t End
Today as we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, let us remember our own baptisms. Let us remember that in Baptism we are invited into God's Story and to set our sights on the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega, Jesus Christ. … [Read more...]
Shine a Light
This sermon explores what we celebrate on the Feast of the Epiphany of our Lord, using the text of Isaiah 60:1-6. May the light of Christ so shine in your light, that others can't help but see it. … [Read more...]
Road to Joy
Today on this third Sunday of Advent we explore what it means for Joy to be at the heart of God's Story. … [Read more...]
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