Ralph Connor Memorial United Church

The Little White Church on Main Street, Canmore, Alberta

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Sermon: January 23, 2022 – John 2: 1-11

Pretty much everyone in Ministry has some good stories about weddings, and wedding receptions.  Other than a few brides being prodigiously late, there haven’t been many silly things happen at weddings, but wedding receptions, welllll, that’s another story. Watch at https://youtu.be/FUgxe_bsumA   Download PDF: Sermon_23January2022 There have been heartfelt, touching, entertaining receptions, there have been top-notch plated meals, and there have been DJs or bands who did an excellent job of inviting and encouraging all ages and abilities to enjoy a …

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2020 Christmas Services, at home

We are delighted to offer THREE very unique online services this Christmas season. FIRST, on Monday night, December 21 at 7:30 PM, our “Longest Night” service, with content provided by our Evensong community.  Join us for this service at https://youtu.be/xBXSP-4PO2Q(“YouTube Premiere” starts at 7:30 sharp… it won’t let you in before that!!) SECOND, on Thursday, December 24, our Christmas Eve service will be posted to our YouTube channel, at 12 noon.  This service features plenty of Carols, and a video-recorded-around-town …

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Sermon: October 4, 2020 – Jonah 3: 1-10

This week, illumination has come from a few different angles… and if all goes well, they will converge at something resembling a sermon! watch at https://youtu.be/EkyucrRnq1w  download PDF at Sermon_04October2020 The first angle, is from the spiritual practice we have been following all month: the Examen.  The first three steps of the Examen are all pretty agreeable: Asking God for light, Giving thanks, and Reviewing the Day. Step four, which we take today, requires some heavier lifting:  “Face your shortcomings …

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Sermon: August 16, 2020 – 1 Corinthians 11: 23-26

When we are at our best, Christians embody their faith.  We look to Jesus Christ as an embodiment, or incarnation, of the Divine, referred to in the gospel of John as “the Word made Flesh.”  God’s presence in the person of Jesus, expresses that this physical world and these physical bodies are places where we experience holiness, sacredness, Divine acceptance, and love.  Theologians like Marcus Borg (pp.39-54) encourage us to view salvation, not as some deferred exit plan from life, …

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Norwich Cathedral

Sermon: May 12, 2019 – Psalm 23 and John 21

It was my great joy to spend Holy Week this year in the UK, at Norwich Cathedral.  What drew me there, was a series of lectures by Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite, a Minister, Poet, Chaplain and Musician based at Cambridge University who had been invited for the week.  Each evening from Monday to Thursday, and then mid-day on Good Friday, Malcolm would follow a similar pattern: some introductory thoughts, then read one of his scripture-based sonnets, reflect on it then, …

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