Advent is, at one and the same time, our annual journey toward Bethlehem and the birth of the Christ Child, and time to anticipate a Kin-dom that is already unfolding … Read more
Thirty years ago, marriage counselor Gary Chapman, Ph.D., wrote an influential and enduring book entitled The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts. In this book, Dr. Chapman … Read more
Some of you will have grown up in Churches where the Liturgical Calendar of the year is an important thing, and for others it will be a more recent and/or … Read more
> a sermon preached at Rundle Memorial United Church, Banff AB I have a particularly strong, positive emotional connection with some scriptures. When I see them coming up in the … Read more
Occasionally, something happens in one’s life, or in the shared experience of a community, that forever changes how a scripture lesson will be read. Watch at https://youtu.be/7MEmgCLkpXM Download PDF: Sermon_24April2022 … Read more
This is the day of resurrection. The gloom of Good Friday is replaced by a glorious new day, the body laid in the tomb after the crucifixion is replaced, miraculously, … Read more
I have to admit that politically, emotionally and theologically the past two years have been a grind. With COVID setting the context, we have watched as the inequalities of our … Read more
One of my favourite aspects of the narrative of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany is how, at each turn, we are shown God’s commitment to those who hold neither status or … Read more
The annunciation to Mary, followed by the visitation of Mary and Elizabeth. These are our back-to-back gospel readings from Luke for this third Sunday of Advent, the Sunday of JOY. … Read more
Watch at https://youtu.be/aPOvM021kKw Pause a while with me, in the presence of a sacred moment between parent and child, as we hear the final verses of the “Song of Zechariah” … Read more