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Yr B ~ Pentecost 4 (Indigenous Sunday) ~ 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 (MSG) It’s good for us to remember that these letters from Paul that we have in the bible were written because something had gone amiss and Paul needed to…
Yr B ~ Pentecost 3 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Walk by faith not by sight. Perceive the world differently. That’s really what today’s scripture passage is about. Unfortunately, it twists and turns, and uses problematic language, and seems to suggest…
Yr B ~ Pentecost 2 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:13-18 (MSG) Ok, let’s just start by getting it all out on the table. There’s a lot of stuff swirling around these days. This month we become more intentional than usual about…
Yr B ~ Pentecost ~ Ezekiel 37:1-14 I love this passage of scripture. It’s one of my favourites. I just find it so incredibly powerful and profound. It was written by the prophet Ezekiel who was tapped by God to…
Yr B ~ Easter 7 ~ 1 John 5:9-13 Have you ever been a witness? Maybe at a trial, or at an accident scene? A witness shares their truth. A witness says what they’ve seen, or experienced. The Greek word…
Yr B ~ Easter 6 ~ 1 John 5:1-7 Jesus didn’t teach outside of his own small geographic region. His unique gift was a spiritual reform of his own religious tradition – Judaism – a reform that eventually took its…
Yr B ~ Easter 5 ~ 1 John 4:7-21 We’ve talked about it before but it bears mentioning again – anytime we try to define God, or explain God, or seek to say anything about God at all we are…
Yr B ~ Easter 4 ~ 1 John 3:16-24 Today we’re continuing our month-long look at 1st John 3. The basic message of this morning’s reading is simple and clear: don’t just talk the talk – walk the walk! You…
Yr B ~ Easter 3 ~ 1 John 3:1-7 We’re going to be spending the season of Easter going through the love letter called 1st John. It’s actually more of a sermon – now turned into a bunch of sermons!…
Yr B ~ Easter ~ John 20:1-18 We have just come through Holy Week! The week we church-folk ride an emotional roller coaster. This year we’ve moved through the story in John’s gospel. We went from the dinner party of…