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Sermon: March 26, 2023 – Lent 5 – John 11: 1-45

March 26, 2023 by Greg Wooley

I’m so pleased that The Voice Bible translation gives us these dramatic dialogue versions of scripture, to help us really step inside a hard yet hopeful story like this one … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags belief, eternal life, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, resurrection

Sermon: April 11, 2021 – John 20:19-31 and Acts 4:32-35

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 by Greg Wooley

Sermon: April 11, 2021 – John 20: 19-31 and Acts 4: 32-35 Ralph Connor Memorial United Church, Canmore AB – Rev Greg Wooley Each year, on this first Sunday after … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags action, belief, belonging, benevolence, Christ, doubting, Faith, following, Jesus, love, resurrection, sharing, Thomas

HAPPY EASTER! Easter Sunday Sermon, April 4 2021 – John 20: 1-18

April 4, 2021 by Greg Wooley

Easter Sunday, of all the Sundays of the Christian year, we proclaim life.  We proclaim hope and renewal and emergence and all things that help our spirits to arise.  We … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags Alleluia, Christ, easter, God, Hallelujah, Jesus, life, presence, resurrection, Trauma

Sermon: March 21, 2021 – Lent V – John 12: 20-33

March 21, 2021 by Greg Wooley

Legacy. One’s legacy can be a tough thing to ponder.  While a legacy doesn’t necessarily wait until one has died, the word does remind me of my mortality; and the … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags church, community, death, Jesus, legacy, personal, resurrection

Sunday Worship online – August 2, 2020

August 2, 2020 by Greg Wooley

Join us at https://youtu.be/sCxVe7L6qtY for our online Sunday worship, honouring a colleague in Ministry who died of COVID in July: Rev Vickey Gibbs of Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston.  … Read more

Categories General Posts, Sunday Sermons Tags discipleship, forgiveness, love, resurrection, Vickey

Sermon: Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 – John 20: 1-18

April 12, 2020 by Greg Wooley

The calendar indicates that April 12, 2020, is Easter Sunday.  And here it is!  The Church building is not open, a public gathering at Riverside wasn’t allowable, a few of … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags celebration, Easter. global, Jesus, resurrection

Sermon: March 29, 2020 – John 11: 1-45 (Lent V)

April 4, 2020March 29, 2020 by Greg Wooley

Two words that emerge from today’s passage from John are presence, and absence. click here for a PDF of this Sermon When my Mom was growing up, her Sunday School … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags absence, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, presence, resurrection

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

December 1, 2019 by Greg Wooley

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 … Read more

Categories Sunday Sermons Tags advent, air, Christ, diversity, hope, newness, reconciliation, recovery, resilience, respect, resurrection, transformation, wind

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  • Sermon: March 26, 2023 – Lent 5 – John 11: 1-45
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  • Sermon: March 12, 2023 – 3rd Sunday in Lent – John 4: 5-42
  • Sermon: Sunday, March 5, 2023, Lent 2 — John 3: 1-17
  • Message: February 26, 2023 – First Sunday in Lent – Matthew 4: 1-11

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Rev. Greg Wooley – Minister
Rev. Shannon Mang – Wedding Minister

CANMORE CAMPUS:
Trish Campney – Office Admin, Canmore

Church Phone: 403.675.0064
Church Fax: 403.675.0071

Mailing Address:
PO Box 8901 Stn Main,
Canmore AB T1W 0J3

Street Address:
Ralph Connor Memorial UC,
617 Main (8th) Street,
Canmore, Alberta

BANFF CAMPUS:
Nancy Murray – Office Admin, Banff

Church phone: 403.762.2075
Mailing Address:
Rundle Memorial United Church,
PO Box 1086
Banff, AB T1L 1B1

Street Address:
104 Banff Avenue
Banff, Alberta
(corner of Banff Ave and Buffalo St)

 

 

 

 

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