Author Archives: Elise Feltrin

This week in our song of faith series we talked about church and this incredible, yet incredibly difficult call to be church.  Have a listen:

With a clip from the God’s Must Be Crazy, some cheap ceramic plates and the song of faith we took a look at beauty, sin, accumulated sin.  Spoiler alert – it ends with the hope of forgiveness and restoration and transformation. Check it out:   The sermon was based off of the Song Of Faith …

Continue reading “The Sin of Flying Coke Bottles – June 28, 2015”

This week was the third week of our song of faith so we dove into a critical part of the text – relationship. You can find out more about it here: http://www.united-church.ca/beliefs/statements/songfaith

This week, a different kind of sermon  We reflected on the text of the abundant river that sustains our home and then entered the text by a guided mediation.  May you find peace in the abundant river that sustains.

This week we went to other side of the spectrum with a fluffy nature video – but one that reminds us, or rather points to, a different reality: a glimpse of God reflected in the natural world. https://youtu.be/UblP9gN_yBU

This week was our second week exploring the theme of Creation and Ecology.  We took a relatively popular passage of Elijah on the mountain, explored some background and and some hard questions.

Today marked the first day of our 5-week series on Creation and Ecology. We speak of creation when we talk about the work of God and we talk about God as continually creating. We speak of eco – or Greek for oikos – home, like our planet. And we speak of ecology, the interconnectedness of …

Continue reading “Creation, Corruption and Reclamation – May 3, 2015”

This week, we had our final look at change and transformation where we looked at one of the most dramatic change stories in the scriptures: the conversion of Paul: I realized that I forgot something on the sermon on Sunday – a very important piece in fact. It is the piece that ties the idea …

Continue reading “Red Green, Cheese Graters and the Return of the Hoopoe – April, 26, 2015”

What do the Road to Emmaus and Alexander Fleming have in common?  Interesting question.  This week we took a look at the story from Luke 24 and talked about how the most ordinary day marked the most extraordinary transformation of the life and teachings of Christ.

This week we looked at the very simple, yet very poignant story of the disciples fishing on the other side of the boat.  We accompanied this story with 7 other stories of letting go, from modern day parables to real-life situations.  Maybe, when we let go, something new and transformative can take its place.