Advent begun this week. It starts with hope. Take a listen. Part way through through the sermon you hear the first few bars of “O Come O Come Emmanuel.” That sample was from this video: John spoke over the music during the video (the audio didn’t balance on the recording). He spoke of the many …
Continue reading “Take a Bow and Step Into The Darkness – November 29, 2015”
It’s been a while since we posted a sermon online – we’ve been doing a lot of prayer practice work which don’t lend themselves to being posted online in the same way. That being said, on Oct 25, we kicked off a new series – Who is My Neighbour? This sermon sets the foundation for …
Continue reading “Pork Chops and Potatoes and Green Beans – October 25, 2015”
This week we not only talked about baptism, we had a baptism! We celebrated this incredible ritual that takes place in our holy, water-soaked, grace-abundant world.
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”
