Ralph Connor Memorial United Church

The Little White Church on Main Street, Canmore, Alberta

Isaiah

Sermon: January 16, 2022 – Luke 4: 14-21

Watch at https://youtu.be/7zHNqhKFNfE  Download PDF at Sermon_16January2022 What do you consider to be your life’s purpose?  A couple of years ago, a team from WorshipHouse Media went around the US asking people this question, and here is what they heard: https://www.worshiphousemedia.com/mini-movies/4577/what-is-your-purpose {this is a “preview” version of the video; the actual video seen in Worship has been purchased from the vendor} Unless you have been thinking about recently in a structured way, that would be a really hard question for …

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Sermon: January 9, 2022 – Isaiah 43: 1-7

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 world have presented themselves, one at a time and all at once.  The shocking murders in the United States of people of colour, Residential School burial site discoveries here in Canada, the embarrassing inequality of global vaccine distribution, and the political divisiveness in this province and around the world, have …

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Sermon: May 30, 2021 – Isaiah 6: 1-8

Sermon: Sunday, May 30, 2021 – Isaiah 6: 1-8 Ralph Connor Memorial United Church, Canmore AB – Rev Greg Wooley Introduction As we begin this service, I invite you to review with me the first half of the Christian year.  We have moved from Advent and the birth of Jesus (Christmas), to the season of Epiphany, a time of revelation and light.  The season of Lent gave time for reflection and self-assessment, Holy Week takes us to Good Friday, the …

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Sermon: November 29, 2020 – Advent I – Luke 3: 1-6

Hope.  What an important word for us right now. We need hope. With widespread fatigue and discouragement as public health needs necessitate greater restrictions, and the kinds of emotional and spiritual hopelessness that many people are experiencing, we need things that help us find hope: short term hope, close-to-home hope, as well as bigger, more far-reaching hopes for the world.  So long as it brings no harm to self or others, this is a time when we need to be …

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