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September 14, 2025
Holy Cross Day is a good day, apart from Good Friday, to give some thought to the cross and its place in our believing and in our lives. We take the cross for granted! Crosses are ubiquitous. Crosses are found everywhere, in unexpected places in addition to where we would most expect to find a cross. The cross is a sign of God’s power to save – a sign of love and life.
September 7, 2025
In today’s gospel reading, Jesus warns his listeners of steep cost of following him. His parables about a preparing to build a house and preparing for battle, can help us understand that we cannot bear the steep cost on our own. But if the gospel leaves you feel the price is too high, you can find hope in trusting God, the potter, to reshape you as we learn in today’s reading from Jeremiah.
August 24, 2025
Today’s gospel reading tells of the healing of a crippled woman on the Sabbath (Luke 13:10-17). The “leader of the synagogue” reminded the congregation of the fourth commandment, telling them bluntly, without mincing his words: “there are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day” (13:14). Who makes the rules by which God’s healing grace is set to work in a person’s life? If God be the healer, and if God longs for us to be healed of every-thing (and of any-thing) that afflicts us, then surely God is able to reach out and to heal on any day, and at any time of day, and in any place!
August 17, 2025
Opening the door to exploring faith – the faith that draws us together in community and the faith we each claim – what is faith? And what part does faith play in our lives? It is a theme that runs through the scriptures assigned for these Sundays after Pentecost. Faith is the theme that stitches the Sunday readings together with often challenging and unsettling words and images from both Old and New Testaments.
August 10, 2025
Jesus’s parable from Luke 12:32-40 teaches us to be vigilant and prepared, living with faith as we await God’s kingdom.
August 3, 2025
We are all born of God’s love, but what gets in the way of us experiencing it? In this week’s sermon, we explore how our biological needs for security, power, and affection can dominate our lives and become our idols. We’ll look at the stories of the Israelites, the Colossians, and a man caught in a family feud to see how our attachments to worldly possessions and concerns can blind us to God’s love. We’ll discover that our life is a gift from God, and true wealth is not the accumulation of possessions but in being “rich toward God.” Join me as we consider what it means to be truly free and to set our minds on things above, on Christ.
July 27, 2025
“Leaving the home of Mary and Martha, Jesus needed time to rest – and time to pray. Asked by one of the disciples, “Lord, teach us to pray.” Jesus quickly answered with a prayer, a prayer short on words and phrases, yet broad in the territory it embraces. The Our Father has remained at the heart of Christian life and community for two thousand years. Prayer is a conversation, a conversation with God. A conversation as real as any heart-felt discussion we might have with a friend about what is bothering us, and them, at any time. In the Our Father, Jesus teaches his disciples to pray boldly, to pray with courage and to pray with expectation! “So I say to you,” says our Lord, “ask and it will be given you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened.” Luke 11:9”
July 21, 2025
In this sermon, I delve into the Parable of the Good Samaritan, a story universally recognized, even inspiring “Good Samaritan laws”. While often interpreted simply as a call to help those in need, I explore its deeper meaning, particularly through the lawyer’s question, “And who is my neighbour?”. Jesus challenges us to define “neighbour” not from a position of strength, but from the ditch of desperate need. This parable invites us to radical, sacrificial love and sustained commitment, urging us not only to act as Good Samaritans but also to transform the “Jericho road” itself. Join us as we uncover Jesus’s call to live a life of holistic love, service, and advocacy.
July 13, 2025
In this sermon, I delve into the Parable of the Good Samaritan, a story universally recognized, even inspiring “Good Samaritan laws”. While often interpreted simply as a call to help those in need, I explore its deeper meaning, particularly through the lawyer’s question, “And who is my neighbour?”. Jesus challenges us to define “neighbour” not from a position of strength, but from the ditch of desperate need. This parable invites us to radical, sacrificial love and sustained commitment, urging us not only to act as Good Samaritans but also to transform the “Jericho road” itself. Join us as we uncover Jesus’s call to live a life of holistic love, service, and advocacy.
July 6, 2025
Today’s Gospel, though seemingly strange in its details, beautifully illustrates our identity as Christians and as a church. We are always “being sent” – just as the Lord appointed seventy others, we too are commissioned to go forth. The harvest is plentiful, but laborers are few, urging us to pray for more to be sent. We are sent out like vulnerable lambs among wolves, dependent on God’s provision. Our mission is to find people of peace, offer healing, and proclaim that the Kingdom of God has come near. Ultimately, we rejoice not in our accomplishments, but that our names are written in heaven. And so we prepare to be fed at the Lord’s table and to go forth to love and serve God.