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Yr C ~ Pentecost 1 ~ Psalm 8 Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a big, complex place like a large city, or a huge theme park, or a sprawling conservation area, and you want to figure…
Yr C ~ Pentecost Sunday ~ Psalm 104:24-35 Today is Pentecost Sunday. It’s one of the high points in the Christian year for me. It was the birth of the Church! – not this church, THE Church! So why did…
Yr C ~ Easter 6 – Acts 16:6-15 Today is the last day of a four-week series this Easter season called ‘That Changes Everything’. It’s an expression meant to describe what happens after Easter – after you come to a…
Yr C ~ Easter 5 ~ Acts 11:1-18 Women should only aspire to be housewives and mothers. People of different races should not marry. People of different religions should not marry. Being gay is wrong. Persons of colour should have…
Yr C ~ Easter 4 ~ Acts 9:36-43 We’re in a sermon series called “That Changes Everything”. Last week we met a wonderfully faithful fellow named Ananias who was called to the unlikely ministry of praying with the worst person…
Yr C ~ Easter 3 ~ Acts 9:1-20 Picture it. It’s 36 CE (or thereabouts) roughly 3 years after the time of Jesus’ death and resurrection. A man named Saul is on the warpath. He is a zealous man, intent…
Yr C ~ Easter Sunday ~ Luke 24:1-12 (MSG) Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale – a tale of a fateful trip. It started from a tropic port aboard a tiny ship. (begin singing) The mate was…
War of the Worlds – Casualties And just like that, it was over. All that hope. All that talk of justice, and peace. All that focusing on care, and compassion, and serving. All that immersion in love – gone. Snuffed…
Yr C ~ Palm Sunday ~ Luke 19:28-40 To begin, did anyone notice that in Luke’s version of Palm Sunday there are a couple of things missing – like palms? If we only had Luke’s version we’d have to call…
Yr C ~ Lent 5 ~ Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 This is the fifth sermon in a Lenten series called War of the Worlds. We’ve been looking at the culture clash and conflict that happens when the ‘ways of the world’…