Sermons
Sermon for November 3, 2024 - All Saints Sunday
“God has knit together his elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of Christ.”
Sermon for October 27, 2024 - The 23rd Sunday after Pentecost
Like Bartimaeus, through being in community with one another we are able to hear “take heart, get up, he is calling you.”
Sermon for October 20, 2024 - The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
If we walk this path of faith, if we can follow Jesus’ teachings about love, forgiveness, giving, serving others, and remove the potential stumbling blocks that get in our way, then we will be transformed. It is impossible to walk in here, spend time with this community and not be transformed.
Sermon for October 13, 2024 - Harvest Thanksgiving
Contentment is about being satisfied given the limitations of our present life, what is not changeable.
Sermon for October 6, 2024 - The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
When we live out these teachings and offer selfless service to others, we create a piece of the Kingdom of God in the here and now, and indeed in the place we call home.
Sermon for September 22, 2024 - The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Greatness is determined by weakness and vulnerability. By service and sacrifice. By humility and honour. By truthfulness and faithfulness.
Sermon for September 15, 2024 - The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
How has God placed a call on your heart to love? Where do you feel you called to serve? How do your actions, each and every day, reflect the mission of Christ?
Sermon for September 8, 2024 - The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
After all, we do know, we really do know from our own personal experiences just how deeply God loves each and everyone of us – and that is exactly what this neighborhood of West Broadway needs to hear and see from us.
Sermon for September 1, 2024 - The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
This text shows us that Jesus sees clearly the ugliness of human hearts, yet he does not turn away.
Sermon for August 25, 2024 - The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
God is working life in the midst of apparent failure and rejection.
Sermon for August 18, 2024 - The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jesus promises rather than instructs or explains. Jesus promises that whoever eats the flesh and drinks the blood of Jesus, the Son of Man, has eternal life now and will be raised up on the last day.
Sermon for August 11, 2024 - The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
When we turn to God’s steadfastness, we are also gifted with a faith that says that when we do fall and find ourselves reduced to tears in face of what we’ve wrought, we will be raised from our knees, feel our tears wiped from our faces, and set again on our stumbling way of redemption.
Sermon for July 21, 2024 - The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
When we take time to slow down, when we take time to see and feel the presence of God around us, we begin to see that we are surrounded by an abundance.
Sermon for July 14, 2024 - The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Essential to Mark’s Gospel, is that the presence of Jesus exposes the duplicity, hypocrisy, one-upmanship, of the kingdoms and empires to which we are supposed to participate in.
Sermon for July 7, 2024 - The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
What is it that you might need to let go of and trust that God will care for you?
Sermon for June 30, 2024 - The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
With God there is always reason to hope.
Sermon for June 23, 2024 - National Indigenous Day of Prayer
Now is the time to continue to do the work of truth telling and reconciliation. Truth and Reconciliation is the light shining in the darkness of the past.
Sermon for June 9, 2024 - The Third Sunday after Pentecost
The Holy Spirit is wild and disturbing and comes to us in unfamiliar and unexpected forms.
Sermon for June 2, 2024 - The Second Sunday after Pentecost
Sabbath-keeping is a resistance movement, and it’s very counter-cultural. Sabbath keeping is a resistance to the clutter, the noise, the advertising, the busyness, and the “virtual living” that sucks the life out of our lives.
Sermon for May 26, 2024 - Trinity Sunday
There are endless ways to pray. In the face of anxiety and uncertainty, play with your prayer, going beyond seeming proficiency. Try a medium with which you’re not familiar and discover what unfolds.