"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" Matthew 22:36 If you were to think about the most important part of Christianity what would it be? Maybe you’d say God, or Jesus, or the Holy Spirit – perfectly, true and acceptable answers for sure. Or maybe you’d pick an event, like the Crucifixion or Resurrection – after all, some Christian scholars have called these events the hinge of history or Pentecost since that’s why we’re here. Or if you were more theologically … [Read more...]
Sing for Life – Sermon for Oct 18
Our psalm today might be a little hard to hear in this strange time and place we live in ravaged as we are by the COVID-19 pandemic, with its emphasis on singing – something we are unable to do safely together at this moment. Three times in the first 2 verses we hear the imperative to sing! O Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord and bless his name. We all want to sing O Lord, but alas we cannot for the sake and safety of others. While the psalm might be … [Read more...]
Invited to the Feast – Sermon for October 11th 2020
Later in the service after communion we will say together: Glory to God, whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Glory to God from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus, for ever and ever. Amen We say this doxology, together every Sunday at the close of our service of Holy Communion, and what a way to end our services it is. In it we collectively affirm, celebrate and proclaim God’s glory and power working in us, through the … [Read more...]
God’s Plan – Sermon for October 4th
God has a plan for your life! Doesn’t that just sound wonderful? The all-knowing, all-loving God who created everything around you has a plan for your life, no matter how small or insignificant you may feel. So what might those plans be? Maybe you’ve heard famous televangelists tell you that God’s plan is for you to be happy and blessed with material possessions – sounds nice enough but it usually comes with a catch: you need to show your immense faith and trust in God (and the … [Read more...]
Salt of the Earth – Sermon for Epiphany 5
"You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?” ~ Matthew 5:13 Like many young people leaving home for the first time, I never learned to cook for myself. In university I spent my first couple years in residence, and then when I was living off campus my idea of cooking was popping a can of something and heating it in the microwave or if I was really fancy on the stove top. I could make eggs and bacon for breakfast, and my one real food item … [Read more...]
Mr./Mrs. Beatitudes – Sermon for Epiphany 4
Audio of Sermon: Mr./Mrs. Beatitudes found below! ”Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – Matthew 5:10 Ever since I was a child I have loved both fantasy and science fiction as a genre. Whether it was devouring Tolkien, laughing hysterically at the Hitchhikers Guide Series, or watching Star Trek with my parents – I couldn’t get enough of the stories weaved in the two literary genres. A common enough story in both fantasy and … [Read more...]
New Life – Baptism of Christ Sunday, 2020
“See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.” – Isaiah 42:9 “Gone by 2040? Statistics report wake-up call to church, says primate” If you receive the Anglican Journal or you happened to read one here in our entryway before they were taken, you would have been confronted by this shocking headline, on the front page of our church’s national newspaper. The article is a response to statistics which were recently released … [Read more...]
We Three Kings? – Sermon for Epiphany 2020
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem – Matthew 2:1 Today we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany here on the first Sunday of the new year, the new decade. Even as all around us Christmas decorations have been taken down and store shelves are now stuffed with Valentines Day paraphernalia, trees put away or put out to the curb, Boxing Day sales have wrapped up, yet our celebration of Christmas continues all the way until … [Read more...]
Hope for the Future – Sabbath Week 6
Today we come to the end of our series on Sabbath, and you may ask yourselves ‘now what?’ What does the practice of Sabbath have to do with my daily life? What hope can resting and pausing offer me in a world that moves so quickly that if you stop and pause you’ll be left in the dust? What can we possibly hope to accomplish as a congregation by intentionally resting for one whole year? To begin to answer those questions, I want to talk to you about a park. Some of the most enduring and … [Read more...]
Gift from God – Sabbath Week 4
Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ~ Luke 6:5 I remember as a child one of the worst things you could hear was a new set of rules or especially for a new gift, game or toy that you just picked up – don’t do this, don’t do that, you can’t do that here and what not. Now don’t get me wrong rules are important, most games wouldn’t be any fun without them but if rules suffocate and eclipse everything than there is no joy or delight. The same is true as we grow older, … [Read more...]
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