November 16, 2025
Today’s gospel offers a vital word of warning, opportunity, and promise from Jesus, spoken from an apocalyptic perspective to unveil the true nature of our hearts and souls. Loss and change, like my own impending departure from St. Barnabas, inevitably face us and reveal what is true about ourselves. Rather than seeking outside protection or being led astray, Jesus calls us to put our trust in God’s providential hand, enduring trials to gain our souls.
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November 9, 2025
As my time as priest-in-charge concludes, this Remembrance Sunday sermon reflects on the bittersweet experience of doing things for the last time and the spiritual depth found in remembering people who have died. Drawing on the faith of the saints and the promises in Scripture, I explore how the hope offered through Christ’s resurrection strengthens our faith and connects us with the faithful departed. My hope is that this remembrance will nurture us all in faith, hope, and love as we experience God’s presence daily, especially in the Eucharist.
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November 7, 2025
Taizé services are comprised of silence and song, candlelight and stillness, prayer and contemplation.
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November 2, 2025
This All Saints’ Sunday sermon reflects on saints, not so much as heroes, but as faithful yet flawed human beings who are transformed by God’s love. Saints are not isolated individuals operating out of their own strength, but instead are chosen as agents of divine power, and who find hope in Christ by following his pattern of sacrificial love, often counter to the world’s expectations. Ultimately, we are reminded that we are part of the glorious, hope-filled company of saints.
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October 26, 2025
The Evensong service, and the readings assigned for today, are an antidote to the poison of anxiety.
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October 26, 2025
Entering deeply into the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14) is akin to being dropped into a corn maze, uncertain of what is the proper exit. Both protagonists, are like us, “complicated”; with a mixture of attitudes and actions, some laudable and some reprehensible. Both have done a good thing in coming to the temple to pray. But their prayers do not align with their attitudes and actions. Our liturgy models a more robust prayer – rooted in God’s love, and our call to love God and neighbour.
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October 19, 2025
The parable of the widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8) and its following companion parable of the Pharisee and tax collector underline the importance and the place of perseverance and humility in prayer. But prayer doesn’t come easy. Prayer is ultimately a conversation, a relationship with God that lasts throughout our lives. Prayer should become something as natural as breathing. Something, surprisingly, as normal as daily life itself!
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October 12, 2025
Drawing on today’s scripture passages, modern science and longstanding traditions like the Anglican harvest thanksgiving feast, this Harvest Thanksgiving sermon reflects on how gratitude is central to our humanity. Practicing gratitude, as exemplified by Jesus in the Eucharist (which means “thanksgiving”), and the Jewish festival of Shavuot, magnifies life’s pleasures and prevents us from taking blessings for granted. We are invited to discover the “place where our deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” by using your unique gifts to serve others, thereby cultivating greater gratitude for God’s blessings.
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October 7, 2025
Whether due to our own failings, others’ actions, or global factors — life rarely goes as planned. Jesus’ disciples reacted to the challenging command to forgive by asking for more faith, perhaps believing faith might give them control over life’s disruptions. In this sermon, I challenge the idea that faith is a means to control our circumstances; rather faith is a gift that enables us to detach from our self-centered hopes and attach ourselves to God’s plan of salvation through a life of servant ministry.
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September 28, 2025
On the 132nd anniversary of the dedication of the present church building, the sermon highlights the history and founding principles of St. Barnabas’, connects these principles to the gospel reading of the Rich Man and Lazarus, and discusses how the church continues to fulfill its mission to the wider community today.
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