I Have Seen The Lord! John 20:1-25 Introduction When my son was little, probably around age 5, I remember this one time we went for a hike as a family. And as children often do, he picked up a stick along the way. It was good for turning over stones to see what
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Dwelling in Dissonance: Belief and Uncertainty John 11:1-45 Entering the Season of Lent This week in our worship service we enter the stories and season of Lent. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we lit the Advent candles, and celebrated the coming of the light to us and to all nations. And
Matthew 25:31-45 The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats Introduction When I was teaching at Rockway I participated twice in an urban plunge called Toronto Outdoor Opportunity for Learning and Service (TOOLS for short) in downtown Toronto with a group of our grade 9 students (I think there were a couple of
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Matthew 4:17-25 Even as the smells of Christmas still linger–the special baking, the pine boughs, the wintergreen scented candle, the cinnamon spiced cider–we catch a whiff of something different. Something else is wafting in, on a breeze from the Sea of Galilee. Do you smell it? Something smells a bit…fishy! And there is
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Luke 1:26-56 Part 1: The Visitation (Shirley Redekop) In place of a traditional sermon this morning, we will, as Mary, mother of Jesus did, ponder what was told to her by the angel Gabriel, and Mary’s reaction to this news. In the spring of 2014 and again in 2024 Fred and I attended
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