Lent is a time when we are supposed to let ourselves be uncomfortable. This teaching is all about discomfort and false comfortableness. It is a challenge to us as Church to do the same; getting up and getting going. Whatever you are working with in your life, I hope this helps you face the challenge, and invitation, to exchange deadening safety for the risk and the promise of abundant life. … [Read more...]
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Setting your course of life.
Sometimes when things go wrong and life comes to a shuddering stop you have to re-think what you are doing. But in Lent the Church actually invites you to do this without a catastrophe to push you there.A life well lived is a life that you reflect on. A spiritual life well lived is reflected on, fine tuned and re-set annually. Getting ready for the New Birth of Easter, which is what you could call the weeks of Lent, is our time to do this. … [Read more...]
Temptation!
You think you never meet the Tempter? At Grace Church as with Jesus, whenever God gets close so does the opposition. … [Read more...]
Ash Wednesday Reflection
People often avoid Ash Wednesday. It seems too penitential, old fashioned or sad. But to miss it is to miss what matters. It is to miss a glimpse of eternity. … [Read more...]
Annual Vestry (General) Meeting Homily
This Sunday is our AGM, and this homily ( a little sermon) is about how we do this. Not as a business meeting, but as part of the People of God, doing some reviewing and planning for this bit of the Kingdom we have been given responsibility for. … [Read more...]
First World Problems
This is a video for when you need a quick reality check about life in Canada. … [Read more...]
A teaching on Spiritual Freedom in the midst of a family fight.
This is about Jesus in a fight at home and Paul talking about Love. It often feels like these are miles apart in our own lives. Here I try to show how they actually touch in the middle of real life. … [Read more...]
Jesus teaches that God is here now
This is a short summary of the shift between John the Baptist and Jesus as to when we can expect the kingdom of God. Surprisingly Jesus sits down and says, "here and now". … [Read more...]
“You are my child, my lovely child!”
When does a love affair start? Maybe when you first say "I love you." This teaching is at the heart of the story of Jesus and God at his baptism. And at the heart of how we get "baptized in the spirit" by Jesus' love for us. … [Read more...]
The Teachings of the MAGI
Why bring Gold and Incense and Burial Anointing oils? Why go hunting a child in a troubled foreign country? Behind the story of the Magi is deep teaching on the practice of being a follower of the Way of Christ. So often these stories are vehicles of deep teaching, if we just look beneath what the words are, to what they actually are saying. … [Read more...]
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