“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...]
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...]
Peace Be Upon Us
Peace be with! And also with you. We say these words week-in and week out, but do we live into the Peace of Christ? Do we see the Peace of Christ in the midst of the world we live in? … [Read more...]
Spirit in the Sky
Today as we continue our series on "What do we believe?" as part of our "Knowing the Story" theme, we explore what the Creeds have to say about the Holy Spirit, the Lord the Giver of Life, who gathers the church and enables us to respond to Jesus' call of discipleship. … [Read more...]
A Song for a Son
Today as we continue our series on "What do we believe?" as part of our "Knowing the Story" theme, we explore what the Creeds have to say about Jesus, the Son of God and about the fullness of his humanity and divinity and why it is important for us week in and week out to proclaim this and remind ourselves of this. … [Read more...]