"Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" – Matthew 21:9 Today is the beginning of Holy Week, Palm Sunday, a day where we remember Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem with adoring crowds waving palm fronds, shouts of Hosanna, a procession fit for a King. We began today with the joy of Palm Sunday, waving our palms singing our coronation songs just as the crowds did in our first Gospel reading today. And why … [Read more...]
Sermon for Lent 4 – March 26th 2017
For years, John was my favourite of the four Gospels. It is only in John that you find the stories of Jesus turning water into wine; or Jesus talking with the woman at the well; or Nicodemus visiting Jesus. John has some of the most famous Bible verses, like John 3:16 that used to appear on signs at sports events. In the other 3 Gospels, Jesus can be secretive about who he is and what he is up to, but not in John. "I am the way, the truth and the life," "I am the light of the world," "I am the … [Read more...]
Repentance
Last week Andrew spoke to us about discipleship. He spoke to us about how the heart of discipleship is about ‘being with Jesus’, hanging on to Jesus’ every word, on learning what it means to live from Jesus and more challengingly being with the people that Jesus hung out with – the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, the prostitutes, the sinners, the tax collectors, the lonely. He even went on to concretely challenge us to live out this calling to be with Jesus and those Jesus chooses to be … [Read more...]
The Song Remains the Same
“Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises.” – Psalm 98:4 Sing a new song to the Lord, sing a joyous song to the ends of the earth, break forth into joyous song, the hills will sing together, the floods clap their hands at the presence of the Lord! These are a collection of verses from the Psalm 98, in another time we likely would have sung this Psalm. For those of you that love to sing this is the psalm for you – it is a psalm that is … [Read more...]
Mo Money Mo Problems
Recently in the news and on social media there has been a lot of attention being given to Mother Teresa. … [Read more...]
Upside Down
“I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! – Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No I tell you, but rather division!” – Luke 12:49, 51 Well I don’t know about you, but it seems that from last week to today we have jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Last week – when we wrestled with Jesus’ teaching on how our lives our prioritized, particularly around the tough issue of money – seems like a cake walk compared to the bombshell that … [Read more...]
What is Dead May Never Die?
“When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said her, ‘Do not weep’… And he said ‘Young man, I say to you rise!’” – Luke 7:12-13 Let’s talk about death. I know, I know it is not a subject that any of us are particularly comfortable with: whether it is memories of loved ones who have died, the horrific scenes of death plastered across our news screens every day or even the prospect of our own deaths – the subject of death is not one that most of us are comfortable talking … [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...]
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