‘Coming to the Water’ Isaiah 55:1-2; Matthew 7:7-12 ‘Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters! Come, you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy […]
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1 Peter 2:4-10 This summer has been all about stones and rocks. Yes, in our summer worship series, and we will get to that. But also, for me, in my camping vacation time. Rachel already referenced one of the campgrounds we went to this summer. In August, we had a 2-week Northern Ontario
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Ephesians 2:13-22 I love a Scripture passage and a sermon where you have a very clear and straightforward image from Scripture to start with and you can build the whole sermon on it. It makes it easy and poetic, with everything tied up neatly in a bow. I just knew we had that
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Isaiah 28:10; 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 Introduction: Skyscrapers of Stone By all accounts, the cathedrals of Europe are magnificent structures. When you walk in your gaze is drawn up, up, up, along the columns and arches to the vaulted ceiling overhead–where the stones seem weightless–as if the whole thing is reaching for heaven. These
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Joshua 4 (excerpts) Since near the end of May, it feels like all I, all we, have been doing is marking various milestones. Late spring tends to be the time in our SJMC worship cycles that we do lots of milestones and rituals. That is normal and good, but this year, it feels
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Psalm 18: 1-6, 16-19, 46 Introduction One of my favourite rocks is found in Eastern Ontario within Bon Echo Provincial Park. It is Mazinaw Rock, rising 100 m above the lake below. The name Mazinaw comes from an Algonquin word meaning “painted-image lake,” for along its rock face there are 260 Algonquin pictographs–figures
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