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Sermon: Pentecost Sunday, May 31, 2020 – Acts 2: 1-21

May 31, 2020May 31, 2020

JOIN US ONLINE FOR COMMUNION this Pentecost Sunday: Pentecost Sunday, is widely regarded as the birthday of the Church, so today’s message starts with the not-very-liturgical words, Happy Birthday! We won’t be having cake, but later in the service as we share in a socially-distanced communion service, we will have bread and wine or whatever celebrative beverage suits the occasion for you – and I hope that the mood of celebration permeates this time of worship. This week, our focus …

Sermon: December 1, 2019 – Advent 1 – Isaiah 11: 1-10

December 1, 2019

A shoot, growing from the stump of Jesse. How appropriate, in this year when we’ve chosen to build our Advent themes around the classical elements of wind-fire-water-and-earth, to begin with a vivid visual metaphor from nature, of the kind of tenacious, powerful leadership that we see in Jesus Christ. click here for PDF Rather than going immediately to words, let’s spend time “seeing” this stump and wondering about it, because the varied ways we visualize this stump of Jesse and …

Sermon: Affirming Sunday, Oct 27, 2019 – Genesis 9, Galatians 3

October 27, 2019

Sermon: Affirming Ministry Sunday, October 27, 2019 Genesis 9: 12-17 and Galatians 3: 26-29 Ralph Connor Memorial United Church, Canmore AB – Rev Greg Wooley click here for PDF of this sermon This morning, we engage in worship, and discipleship, in celebration, and in covenant. We acknowledge the brokenness of the world as it is experienced, and the unifying grace of the Divine which is at the heart of our existence. We look to a God who gives and affirms …