Baptism Service You Lead Me Beside Still Waters Psalm 23 In case you have wondered whether our children and youth are listening, rest assured, they are. When we create safe, welcoming spaces for them, their ears and eyes and hearts are open. The two baptisms today are rooted in a Sunday School tradition […]
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Acts 27 Today we’re wrapping up our spring series on the book of Acts, having focused on the important role of the Holy Spirit in guiding and shaping the early Church. I don’t know about you, but each story we looked at left me amazed. Each week we heard how The Spirit took
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We can Welcome All People Acts 10 ‘So it is with the Spirit of God.’ Our story today from Acts 10 is truly a remarkable story, a radical story, a stunning story of the working of the Spirit. It is a story rooted in the power of prayer and in hospitality, and brimming
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Acts 8:5-6; 26-40. Us vs Them Show my Team Canada hockey jersey. Will you indulge me with one more hockey reference? I promise I won’t do this every time I speak! It’s known as the greatest rivalry in sports. Team Canada and Team U.S.A. Two evenly matched, highly skilled women’s hockey teams. Two
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Acts 2:41-47; Acts 4:32-37 Friends, some might say that today’s scripture story is one of the scariest in the whole Bible…. even scarier than John’s apocalyptic vision of multi-headed beasts in the book of Revelation. Listen again to these two verses from Acts 2:44-45: 44 And all the believers met together in one place
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Acts 2: 1-39 How does he do it? How is it that Peter is able to preach such a powerful sermon on the day of Pentecost? After all he has gone through! After all his doubts, his recklessness, his abandonment and denials, his fragility, his insecurity? How can he preach after just being
